The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant said yesterday that four tonnes of rainwater contaminated with low levels of radiation leaked during an operation to transfer the water...
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- Oct 3, 2013
- Updated: 5:07am
Fukushima nuclear accident
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster was a series of equipment failures, nuclear meltdowns and releases of radioactive materials at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan, following a devastating earthquake and tsunami on 11 March 2011 which claimed nearly 19,000 lives. It is the largest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986 and only the second disaster to measure Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale.
27 Sep 2013
Tokyo Electric Power Company requested on Friday that safety inspections be carried out that may allow it to restart two nuclear reactors, despite concerns over how it has handled the catastrophe...
5:12PM
25 Sep 2013
A former US nuclear regulatory chief said yesterday that leaks of contaminated water at the crippled Fukushima plant had been recognised since early in the crisis and have worsened because Japan...
3:47AM
20 Sep 2013
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ordered the operator of the country's crippled nuclear power plant to scrap all six reactors at the site instead of just four already slated for decommissioning...
3:57AM
16 Sep 2013
On March 11, 2011, the coastline of northeastern Japan was devastated by an earthquake and tsunami, resulting in the largest nuclear accident since the Chernobyl disaster. Experts are still...
11:17AM
16 Sep 2013
Just hours before Tokyo was chosen to host the 2020 Olympics, Abe gave an emphatic speech declaring that radioactive contaminants from the leakage had no impact to waters outside the bay near the...
4:30AM
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has openly supported a return to the widespread use of atomic energy, but the public remains largely opposed on safety grounds.
4:29AM
A former US nuclear regulator says cleaning up Japan's wrecked Fukushima plant is a bigger challenge than the work he led in the US after the partial nuclear meltdown at the Three Mile Island...
3:14AM
Japan voiced anger on Thursday over cartoons published in a French newspaper that took aim at the decision to award the 2020 Olympics to Tokyo despite the ongoing nuclear crisis at Fukushima.
9:53PM
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Japan's efforts to clean up its nuclear disaster face intense global scrutiny ahead of the Tokyo Olympics, observers say, but despite government promises that Fukushima is "under control", the...
1:36AM
Hong Kong should ban fish products from all of Japan in response to public fears of contamination from ongoing leaks at the Fukushima nuclear plant, a food expert said.
5:18AM
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has promised the world his government will play a greater role in stopping leaks of highly radioactive water at Fukushima.
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