About UsTEPCO discharged into the sea 850 tons of filtered ground water taken from wells around the damaged reactor bu
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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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Shareholders and politicians urged the nation’s top 9 utilities to exit nuclear power as the central governmen
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Tokyo Electric Power Co. revealed their plan on June 7th that they will stop making blanket compensation paym
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The International Atomic Energy Agency criticized Tokyo Electric Power Co.(TEPCO) and Japanese regulatory auth
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TEPCO pledged to disclose all data on radiation levels at its stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant aft
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TEPCO and the government have spent 590 billion yen ($4.93 billion) battling the Fukushima nuclear disaster, b
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TEPCO released a “see-through” image of the No. 1 reactor at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Pla
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TEPCO is turning to cosmic rays to get a look inside the stricken power station’s wrecked reactors, and
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The number of workers injured at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant this fiscal year, which ends March 31, far
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Niigata Governor Hirohiko Izumida remained adamantly opposed to restarting the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plan
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Power companies have resisted government calls to construct safer storage facilities for spent nuclear fuel an
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TEPCO diluted a dust suppressant that rendered it ineffective and allowed the spread of radioactive materials
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The central government released dozens more closed-door accounts by people closely connected to the Fukushima
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In preparation for clearing debris and eventually removing nuclear fuel from inside, TEPCO on Nov. 10 temporar
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Mountains of discarded suits designed to protect workers from radiation at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power P
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New trade and industry minister Yoichi Miyazawa paid a visit to the disaster-hit Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant
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TEPCO posted a solid first-half pretax profit Friday, despite not restarting any of its idled reactors or hiki
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TEPCO has demanded that a 21-year-old woman repay roughly 9 million yen of the 16 million yen in compensation
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EPCO began preparatory work to dismantle the No. 1 reactor building’s cover as a first step toward remo
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TEPCO has unveiled newly installed equipment to remove radioactive substances from highly contaminated water a
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Amid local concerns of the further spread of radioactive materials, TEPCO announced plans to start dismantling
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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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Almost a year after Japan pledged to double hazard pay at the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, workers
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A tsunami of 26 meters would inundate the already-stricken Fukushima No. 1 power plant, causing a huge amount
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TEPCO said its trouble-plagued radioactive water treatment system at the complex has been partially suspended
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The Asahi Shimbun newspaper ran an article of apology on the front page of its Sept. 12 morning edition over t
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A governmental investigative panel on the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster has pointed out that the absence of
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An ongoing health survey of Fukushima Prefecture residents has uncovered seven new cases of thyroid cancer amo
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The government plans to make public testimony regarding the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster given by plant
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Shareholders of TEPCO filed a lawsuit Aug. 20 for disclosure of testimony about the 2011 nuclear disaster give
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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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Embattled Tokyo Electric Power Co. and Tohoku Electric Power Co. will make a final combined 200 million yen ($
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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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Airborne radioactive materials released during debris-clearing work at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant
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Rejecting a decision by prosecutors, an independent judicial panel of citizens said July 31 that three former
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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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More than 1 trillion becquerels of radioactive substances were released into the environment during debris-cle
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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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Stigma, pay cuts and risk of radiation exposure are among the reasons why 3,000 employees have left TEPCO. Now
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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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The Nuclear Regulation Authority says the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011 was almost certainly triggered by
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TEPCO’s debris cleanup work last year at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant may have led to the contami
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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 science ministry said it will set up a research center next April to help decommission the Fukushima No. 1
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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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Satoru Tanaka, one of the government’s two nominees for the five commissioner posts at the Nuclear Regulation
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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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The government’s reconstruction plans for Fukushima Prefecture include creating a town for 5,000 people tasked
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The government will release the transcripts of interviews with 772 people about the 2011 Fukushima meltdown cr
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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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A subcontractor of a Tokyo general contractor has been warned by authorities for illegally forcing employees t
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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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U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy visited Fukushima for the first time since she assumed her post last
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The Diet enacted a revised law that will give a state-backed fund dealing with compensation issues related to
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The government intends to turn a national soccer training center located just 20 kilometers from the Fukushima
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The total amount of radioactive cesium released into the atmosphere and seawater from the crippled Fukushima D
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Kansai Electric Power Co. said to raise its earthquake force estimate for its Oi nuclear power plant in Fukui
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A worker at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant who was exposed to high levels of radiation in the early d
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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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TEPCO moved into the black in fiscal 2013 since nuclear disaster in March 2011. Tepco reported a group net pro
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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 on April 9th started pumping groundwater at the Fukushima No.1 plant as part of an operation to direct i
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TEPCO will seek to coordinate the difficult decommissioning process for Fukushima No.1 plant through a newly l
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One worker at the Fukushima No.1 nuclear plant died on March 28th in an accident in which he was buried under
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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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Nuclear Regulation Authority decided on March 13th to prioritize the safety review of two reactors at Kyushu E
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Businesses and households in Japan have been forced to shoulder greater financial burdens since the outbreak o
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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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The cooling system at the No. 4 unit spent fuel pool at Fukushima Daiichi temporarily halted on Feb 25th after
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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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The Abe administration’s long-awaited basic energy policy, set to be approved in March, means that Japan
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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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Power utilities, including TEPCO, leaned on customer rate hikes to boost their financial performances in the f
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TEPCO posts an ordinary profit of 189 billion yen ($1.84 billion) for the first nine months of fiscal 2013.The
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Two reactors at the accident-stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant were classified as defunct , reduc
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1,400 people filed a group action lawsuit Jan. 30 against the manufacturers of the reactors at the Fukushima N
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TEPCO plans to move its Fukushima reconstruction headquarters to the town of Tomioka, which which is within 20
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Japanese scientists have developed a method to use cosmic rays to see through a nuclear reactor, raising hopes
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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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A worker at Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant has been confirmed to have suffered internal exposure to radia
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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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The Fukushima Bar Association (FBA) has begun investigating TEPCO’s refusal to accept non-binding
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Niigata Govenor. Hirohiko Izumida criticized TEPCO’s new business turnaround plan, saying it does not si
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