Japanese officials say they have activated a water decontamination system in a key step toward shutting down reactors at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. The Tokyo Electric Power Company and government officials said they began using the decontaminated water to cool the cores of the number one, two and three reactors Monday afternoon. They hope […]
TEPCO Activates Vital Recycling System at Nuclear Plant
Posted June 27th, 2011 at 6:10 am (UTC-5)
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Iran Insists Nuclear Bomb Not on Agenda
Posted June 23rd, 2011 at 10:00 am (UTC-5)
Iran’s president says Tehran is not interested in building a nuclear bomb, but will not be stopped by the West if it desires to create one. State television quoted President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Thursday as saying his government would tell the world if it was working on a nuclear weapon. Mr. Ahmadinejad’s comments are the latest […]
Iran Insists Nuclear Bomb Not on Agenda
Posted June 23rd, 2011 at 9:50 am (UTC-5)
Iran’s president says Tehran is not interested in building a nuclear bomb, but will will not be stopped by the West if it desires to create one. State television quoted President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Thursday as saying his government would tell the world if it was working on a nuclear weapon. Mr. Ahmadinejad’s comments are the […]
Iran Nuclear Chief and IAEA Head Hold Talks
Posted June 21st, 2011 at 11:20 am (UTC-5)
Iran’s nuclear energy chief and the head of the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog have held talks on Iran’s controversial nuclear program on the sidelines of a week-long conference on nuclear safety. Iran’s Fereidoun Abbasi said he had a “good” discussion in Vienna Tuesday with International Atomic Energy Agency chief Yukiya Amano, who has been critical […]
Japan Vents Damaged Reactor Building
Posted June 20th, 2011 at 12:40 am (UTC-5)
Japanese officials said Monday they have fully opened a door to the building housing one of the Fukushima nuclear plant’s damaged reactors to release water vapor so that workers can install a cooling system to prevent an explosion. A spokesman for the Tokyo Electric Power Company said said the amount of radiation released by ventilating […]
Japan Suspends Nuclear Waste Water Operation
Posted June 18th, 2011 at 1:25 am (UTC-5)
The operator of Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant has suspended a process to decontaminate more than 110,000 tons of radioactive water. Tokyo Electric Power Company officials said Saturday that the operation had to be halted just five hours after the water scrubbing system came online. TEPCO officials said the part of the system that […]
Japan Begins Cleaning Radioactive Water at Damaged Nuclear Plant
Posted June 17th, 2011 at 9:25 am (UTC-5)
The operator of Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant on Friday began a process to decontaminate more than 110,000 tons of radioactive water. The water was used to cool the plant’s reactors after a nuclear meltdown caused by a massive earthquake and tsunami in March. It has been held in reservoirs at the plant, but […]
Poll: Majority of Japanese Support Ending Nuclear Power
Posted June 14th, 2011 at 5:40 am (UTC-5)
A new survey finds nearly three-quarters of Japanese citizens say they want to see nuclear power gradually phased-out as a source of energy in the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster. The survey by the Asahi newspaper was taken as the government continues to grapple with the world’s worst nuclear crisis since the 1986 […]
Japanese Cabinet Approves Nuclear Accident Compensation Plan
Posted June 14th, 2011 at 3:45 am (UTC-5)
Japan’s Cabinet has approved legislation that will help the owners of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant compensate people affected by the disaster. The plan calls for the creation of a fund that Tokyo Electric Power Company will use to pay reparations to tens of thousands of residents who were living within a 20-kilometer evacuation zone […]
Anti-Nuclear Demonstrations Held in Japan
Posted June 11th, 2011 at 6:20 am (UTC-5)
Thousands of people staged anti-nuclear rallies in Tokyo and other Japanese cities Saturday, as radiation continued to leak from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant, three months after a powerful earthquake and tsunami triggered one of the world’s worst nuclear disasters. Also Saturday, embattled Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan visited part of the tsunami-damaged region […]
