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JAPAN | ASAHI SHIMBUN | February 07, 2012 Tokyo Electric Power Co. is taking steps to prevent a possible self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. Readings from a thermometer at the bottom of the No. 2 reactor’s pressure vessel rose from 50.8 degrees at 5 a.m. on Feb. 1 […]
August 23, 2011
JAPAN | MAINICHI | 23 August 2011 HOKUTO, Yamanashi — A city that is home to a large-scale photovoltaic power generation system is gaining attention in the wake of the accident at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant. The Hokuto Site, a solar power facility in the Yamanashi Prefecture city of Hokuto, “provides electricity […]
August 23, 2011
JAPAN | MAINICHI | 23 August 2011 Workers at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant stand around the radioactive water decontamination system “Sally” in this photo provided by TEPCO. Operations to decontaminate highly radioactive water at the crisis-stricken Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant came to a 13-hour halt when a section of pipe […]
August 23, 2011
JAPAN | MAINICHI | 23 August 2011 Saga Prefectural Assembly member Hobun Kihara speaks to reporters at the Saga Prefectural Office on Aug. 23. (Mainichi) SAGA — A prefectural assembly member and chair of the assembly’s special committee on nuclear safety policy took 50,000 yen in donations from executives of nuclear plant operator Kyushu Electric […]
August 23, 2011
JAPAN | MAINICHI | 23 August 2011 Tatsuhiko Kodama, head of the University of Tokyo Radioisotope Center, is seen at the University of Tokyo Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology in Meguro-ku, Tokyo. (Mainichi) University of Tokyo professor Tatsuhiko Kodama, a sharp critic of the government’s response to the Fukushima nuclear crisis, called the […]
August 23, 2011
JAPAN | NHK | 23 August 2011 Japan’s Lower House unanimously passed a bill on renewable energy on Tuesday. The bill is now in the Upper House. The bill requires power utilities to buy all the electricity generated by natural energies such as solar and wind power for a certain period of time. The purchase […]
August 23, 2011
JAPAN | NHK | 23 August 2011 Fukushima in northern Japan says cattle shipped from a farm in the prefecture were highly likely to have been fed hay contaminated with radioactive cesium. The prefecture reported the results of its investigation to the national government on Monday in connection with new reports of contaminated beef found […]
August 23, 2011
JAPAN | NHK | 23 August 2011 Another nuclear reactor has gone offline for regular inspections in Japan. Three-quarters of the country’s reactors are now out of service, putting a strain on power supplies. Tokyo Electric Power Company halted operations of the No.7 reactor at the Kashiwazaki Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture early […]
August 23, 2011
JAPAN | NHK | 23 August 2011 Japan’s Nuclear Safety Commission has revised downward the estimated amount of radioactive substances released from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. The commission now judges that 570-thousand terabecquerels of radioactive iodine 131 and cesium 137, about 10 percent less than its earlier estimate, leaked from the plant between […]
August 23, 2011
JAPAN | NHK | 23 August 2011 Japan’s science ministry is conducting an extensive aerial survey to see how radiation has spread from the disabled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. The ministry plans to measure gamma ray radiation at altitudes of 150 to 300 meters and recalibrate the readings to estimate levels of radioactive substances closer […]
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February 7, 2012
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