About UsThe Governor of Ehime prefecture gave approval on Oct.26 for the restart of unit 3 of Shikoku Electric Power C
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The Governor of Ehime prefecture gave approval on Oct.26 for the restart of unit 3 of Shikoku Electric Power C
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TEPCO discharged into the sea 850 tons of filtered ground water taken from wells around the damaged reactor bu
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Fishermen’s association in Fukushima prefecture gave approval to Tokyo Electric Power Co. to release rad
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Highly radioactive rainwater at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has likely leaked into the Pacific Ocean,
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Highly radioactive water at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has leaked into a nearby bay, but the
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Tokyo Electric Power Co. said it will fail to fulfill its commitment to process by the end of March all highly
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The NRA gave the green light to TEPCO’s plan to dump toxic groundwater pumped up at the Fukushima Daiich
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TEPCO will likely fall short of fulfilling its pledge to process all highly radioactive water stored at the cr
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Five aging nuclear reactors will be decommissioned in the near future, a move that government officials hope w
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Up to 6 tons of radioactive water has leaked into the ground at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear po
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The Nuclear Regulation Authority said contaminated water stored at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant sho
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New updated equipment that is scheduled to go into operation at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in Dec
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TEPCO has decided to bury a trench at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant using concrete after an
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An effort to stop contaminated water from flowing into a trench at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power
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Exploratory drilling for a facility to house waste from the nuclear accident was canceled after local resident
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TEPCO’s goal of purifying all highly radioactive water stored at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant
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TEPCO has unveiled newly installed equipment to remove radioactive substances from highly contaminated water a
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The radioactive water woes at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant got worse after the tritium concentration in
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TEPCO said its trouble-plagued radioactive water treatment system at the complex has been partially suspended
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Kajima Corp. and analysis equipment maker Nikkin Flux Inc. have jointly developed equipment that quickly exami
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Local fishermen are crying foul over Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s latest plan to discharge processed contaminate
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TEPCO said it has begun trial runs of a decontamination channel of a newly installed ALPS system to process ra
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TEPCO said it will test cement and other materials as a sealant to completely stem the radioactive water pouri
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TEPCO filed a plan with regulators on Monday to build a facility for dumping toxic groundwater into the ocean
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Tokyo Electric Power Co. in Aug 12th began pumping up groundwater at disaster-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear po
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TEPCO said that it has placed tons of ice blocks in underground trenches at the complex in an attempt to freez
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TEPCO is unlikely to reach its target of completing purification of radiation-contaminated water stored at the
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TEPCO admitted on July 28th that the so-called groundwater bypass operation at its crippled Fukushima No. 1 nu
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TEPCO unveiled a plan that would place blocks of ice in trenches at the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power
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Roughly 20 or more second water tanks holding radioactively contaminated water at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear
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A leak of radioactive water was found in the piping of water used to cool the spent fuel pool in the undamaged
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An ambitious plan by TEPCO to halt the leakage of contaminated water at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plan
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NRA expressed strong concern about a delay in TEPCO’s plan to freeze highly toxic water building up in u
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According to TEPCO, it can’t confirm whether the groundwater bypass operation at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear p
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TEPCO resumed operation of the complex’s radioactive water treatment system that has been plagued by a s
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The Nuclear Regulation Authority has disclosed the results of its fiscal 2013 research into seabed radioactivi
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TEPCO said it is now able to properly measure the temperature and level of water used as a coolant inside the
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TEPCO will use a truck-mounted filtration system to extract strontium from water stored at the damaged Fukushi
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TEPCO began construction on June 2nd of a huge underground ice wall around four reactor buildings, it is said
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The government has started soliciting candidates in and outside Japan for projects to obtain the latest knowle
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The Nuclear Regulation Authority said that it will allow TEPCO to begin construction of an underground ice wal
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TEPCO dumped into the Pacific Ocean tons of groundwater collected at the Fukushima No.1 plant after having con
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The government said that the radiation level of groundwater at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power pl
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The experts and nuclear regulatory officials said at a meeting in Tokyo that they weren’t convinced the
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TEPCO reported to Nuclear Reguratory Agency that human errors likely caused a recent incident in which highly
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The combined level of radioactive tritium at four reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant is estim
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Radioactivity levels exceeding standards to release groundwater into the ocean were discovered in a pump well
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Around 1.1 tons of radioactive water overflowed Wednesday from a container during cleansing of a water treatme
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TEPCO said on April 14th that about 203 tons of highly radioactive water have been erroneously sent to a build
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TEPCO said on April 11th that toxic water found to have leaked last August at one of the huge tanks at Fukushi
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TEPCO said it will have to substantially expand the radioactive waste storage capacity at Fukushima No.1 plant
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A local fishermen’s organization on March 25th decided to allow TEPCO to dump groundwater at the Fukushi
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Three years having passed since the outbreak of the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant disaster, radioactive
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Getting the radioactive element tritium out of even treated water has become a serious obstacle to work to dec
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Since three years has been past since the Great East Japan Earthquake, struggling to tackle the buildup of hig
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Huma error caused 100 tons of radioactive water leakage Human error, not equipment failure, may be responsible
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Roughly 100 tons of highly radioactive water leaked from one of the huge tanks at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclea
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TEPCO said on Feb 13th that it has detected a record 54,000 becquerels of radioactive cesium per liter in grou
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The government on Feb 3rd sought approval of a nationwide fisheries federation to dump groundwater at the Fuku
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The amount of radioactive cesium that flowed into the sea through a river running across central Fukushima Pre
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TEPCO said that highly radioactive water found on the floor of the No. 3 reactor building could be a sign that
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Water that could contain radioactive material has been pouring into a drain on the first floor of the No. 3 re
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Nuclear regulators called on TEPCO to take action to address the rising radiation level at the border of Fukus
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A team of experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency proposed that TEPCO consider discharging less ha
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TEPCO said on Dec. 2 that it has detected radioactive materials that topped 36,000 times the permissible level
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Advanced Liquid Processing System (ALPS) for the decontamination of radioactive water at Fukushima No. 1 nucle
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TEPCO said that a shortage of water storage tanks has forced it to postpone removal of radioactive groundwater
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Asahi Newspaper interviewed a worker in Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant who is famous on Twitter as his
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Radioactive substances from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant will dilute to negligible levels in the ocean, b
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TEPCO said on Nov.11th that it will build a new drainage channel to prevent toxic water from directly flowing
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TEPCO has yet to figure out what to do with 2,700 tons of radioactive rainwater now stored in two underground
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Two IAEA experts on Nov.7th began to help checking Japan’s marine radiation monitoring activities off th
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TEPCO said on Oct 22nd that it has detected radioactive cesium about 1 kilometer off the coast of Fukushima Da
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TEPCO said on Oct 21st that some of the rainwater that spilled from concrete barriers around clusters of tanks
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The highest level of beta ray-emitting radioactive substances, such as strontium, has been detected at one poi
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A pump to inject water into one of the severely damaged reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant stoppe
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TEPCO said on Oct 2nd that it has found that an unspecified amount of water with a highly concentrated radioac
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A former U.S. nuclear regulatory chief said on Sept. 24 that leaks of contaminated water at the Fukushima plan
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Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority on Sept 18th started an investigation of the contamination of the s
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TEPCO said on Sept 27th that it has dumped into the Pacific Ocean about 1,130 tons of rainwater caused by mass
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The Japanese Fisheries Agency will send a senior official to South Korea to ask the country to reconsider its
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Tokyo Electric Power Co. workers reported detecting high levels of radioactive strontium in a drainage ditch c
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TEPCO said on Sep 10th that it will invite U.S. nuclear expert Lake Barrett to as an outside adviser so as to
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South Korea said on Sep 6th it has banned the import of all fisheries products from eight Japanese prefectures
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TEPCO said on Sep 5th that it has detected 650 becquerels per liter of radioactive substances from groundwater
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The leader of Tokyo’s bid for the 2020 Olympics has sent a letter to IOC members in order to reassure th
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Three people on Sep 3rd filed a criminal complaint against TEPCO and 32 of its current and former executives w
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According to the government source on Sep 3rd, the government will spend over 47 billion yen on emergency meas
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TEPCO announced on Sept. 1 that 300 million becquerels of radiation per liter was detected in water leaking fr
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Very high radiation levels were observed on Aug 31st at three tanks and one of the pipes connecting them at Fu
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The water storage tanks at Fukushima Daiichi plant were built hastily and it was feared at the time that toxic
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Since TEPCO admitted on leaking radioactive water to the Pacific Ocean on July 22,international media attentio
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A national fishermen’s organization on Aug 29th pressed TEPCO to ensure there will be no further leaks o
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TEPCO said it will concentrate its resources on managing the massive amount of radioactive water through effor
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Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Toshimitsu Motegi visited Fukushima No. 1 Plant on Aug. 26 to inspect hig
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A huge storage tank from which about 300 tons of highly radioactive water leaked at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear
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Officials of the Nuclear Regulation Authority visited the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant on Aug 23rd to check
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Due to ongoing radioactive water leakage into the sea, fisheries cooperative in Fukushima gave up trial operat
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Tokyo Electric Power Co. said on Aug 21st that highly radioactive water leaking from a storage tank at the Fuk
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The Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) announced Aug. 21 that the leakage of highly contaminated radioactive w
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