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Japan will begin releasing the treated radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean on 24 August. The decision to begin disposal comes after an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safety review concluded that plans to release the treated water are consistent with IAEA Safety Standards....
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Task Force, which is reviewing Japan’s policy to discharge treated water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station against relevant international safety standards, released its first report on April 29....
The Japanese government has announced that plans to remove spent nuclear fuel from two reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant have been delayed by up to five years. The announcement on December 27 has increased doubts of whether the government is able to achieve its target of dismantling the complex within the next 30 to 40 years....
According to the Kyodo news agency, a nuclear reactor in north-eastern Japan that was damaged by the 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster and subsequently shut down has finally received the Japanese Nuclear Regulation Authority’s approval to resume operations....
Three former executives of Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) which runs the ruined Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have been acquitted of failing to prevent the March 2011 nuclear meltdown....
Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) will decommission the Fukushima Daini nuclear complex, its president, Tomoaki Kobayakawa, told the Governor of Fukushima province in northeastern Japan at a meeting on July 24, according to Kyodo News....
Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) started removing nuclear fuel on April 15 from the Fukushima Unit 3 storage pool, located at one of the reactor buildings damaged by hydrogen explosions in the 2011 disaster at the site. Three of six reactors suffered meltdowns after losing power following a powerful earthquake and tsunami at the power plant....
Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco), the owner of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan, has launched an English-language online virtual tour of the interior of the crippled power plant allowing website visitors to check the progress of decommissioning work since the plant was destroyed by a tsunami in 2011, causing one of the world’s worst nuclear crises....
Japanese utility Tokyo Electric Power Co Holdings (Tepco) said another lawsuit had been filed in a US court seeking $5 billion in compensation over the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, the second filed against the utility in a US court. The utility is being sued over improper design, construction and maintenance, claiming compensation for physical, mental and economic damages, the company said in a statement....
Radiation levels inside a damaged reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station are at their highest since the plant suffered a triple meltdown almost six years ago. On February 3, the facility’s operator, Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco), said atmospheric readings as high as 530 sieverts an hour had been recorded inside the containment vessel of reactor No 2, one of three affected reactors....