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South China Morning Post
April 1, 2018
The wives of fishermen on Iwaishima protest against the Kaminoseki nuclear power plant project. Photo: Keiko Nasu. For the islanders, and many others across Japan, the meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in 2011 – triggered by an earthquake and tsunami – should have put an end toÃâà...
The Japan Times
March 29, 2018
More than seven years after the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis, radioactive water is continuing to flow into the Pacific Ocean from the crippled No. 1 plant at a rate of around 2 billion becquerels a day, a study has found. The amount of leaking cesium 137 has decreased from some 30 billionÃâà...
All Things Nuclear
March 26, 2018
On March 11, 2011, a large earthquake with an epicenter a few miles off the northeastern shores of Japan spawned a tsunami that inundated the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. The earthquake disconnected the plant from the offsite power grid. The tsunami disabled the onsite emergency dieselÃâà...
NHK WORLD
March 25, 2018
The governor of Japan's Fukushima Prefecture is in Paris to promote farm products that are suffering from a damaged reputation following the 2011 nuclear accident. Masao Uchibori is visiting Europe following the 7th anniversary of the massive earthquake and tsunami that triggered the accident at theÃâà...
POWER magazine
March 25, 2018
SAN ANTONIO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–A team led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is developing unmanned aerial system (UAS) technology to fly into the containment vessels of the damaged units at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station and assess conditions. Tokyo Electric PowerÃâà...
The Japan Times
March 25, 2018
In more bad news for taxpayers, the Board of Audit says the cost of the Fukushima nuclear disaster could balloon to ÃâÃÂ¥218.2 billion, up 58 percent from the previous estimate of ÃâÃÂ¥126.4 billion. The board released the latest estimate Friday in light of the government's adoption of a Cabinet decision inÃâà...
World Nuclear News
March 23, 2018
Unmanned aerial system technology is being developed to fly into the containment vessels of the damaged reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan to assess their condition. Tokyo Electric Power Company contracted the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) of the USA to carry outÃâà...
The Japan Times
March 22, 2018
Japan's nuclear regulator will increase its number of legal staff from this spring to deal with lawsuits related to the Fukushima crisis, sources close to the matter said Wednesday. The secretariat of the Nuclear Regulation Authority will increase the number of staff at an office in charge of litigation to 22 in theÃâà...
The Mainichi
March 22, 2018
FUKUSHIMA -- Only some 30 percent of businesses have resumed operations in areas within a 30-kilometer radius of the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant or in districts that were previously marked as evacuation zones, a Fukushima Federation of Societies of Commerce and Industry survey has foundÃâà...
The Japan Times
March 11, 2018
Steam rises from outdoor pools overlooking a waterfall at a 90-year-old hotel in Fukushima Prefecture's Tsuchiyu Onsen. “What has saved us since the disaster are the loyal regular guests and the new visitors who have come to study our town's renewable energy plant. Without them, I'm sure we wouldÃâà...
BBC News
March 11, 2018
Seven years on and the hotel's operating profits have not recovered to levels seen before the disaster struck. Mr Watanabe says: "Some guests still talk about the nuclear disaster. There is still a negative image about Fukushima, and it's been painful for all of us in this community." The tsunami killed almostÃâà...
The Guardian
March 10, 2018
What happens to a town that has been abandoned for seven years after a nuclear meltdown? Greenpeace took former residents and a 360-degree camera into the radiation zone north of Fukushima to mark the anniversary of the disaster. The Fukushima Daiichi plant was damaged by a tsunami triggeredÃâà...
Tampabay.com
March 9, 2018
Shigaru Matsumoto, 65, has lived in Naraha his whole life. His bar of choice is Ippei, one of the only places around for residents and decontamination workers alike to enjoy an alcoholic beverage. Most of the people who have returned to Naraha are over 60, he said, with younger people restarting theirÃâà...
The Japan Times
March 9, 2018
Back in 2011, soon after the 3/11 disaster, Safecast was born. Today, the global volunteer-centered citizen science organization is home to the world's largest open data set of radiation measurements. Safecast was a response to the lack of publicly available, accurate and trustworthy radiation information.
NHK WORLD
March 8, 2018
Nearly 7 years after the triple meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Japan's chief nuclear regulator says the 2011 accident is not over. Toyoshi Fuketa, Nuclear Regulation Authority Chairman, held a news conference on Wednesday, 4 days before the 7th anniversary of the severe accident.
Channel NewsAsia
March 3, 2018
FUKUSHIMA: In the heart of Fukushima's disaster zone, robots sent into the Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant have been dying. Despite being designed to get data from its damaged reactors, the robots were, with few exceptions, wrecked within hours. The radioactivity inside has been too high for theirÃâà...
Science Daily
February 28, 2018
This could mean the environmental impact from the fallout may last much longer than previously expected according to a new study by a team of international researchers, including scientists from The University of Manchester. The team says that, for the first time, the fallout of Fukushima Daiichi nuclearÃâà...
World Nuclear News
December 31, 1999
Unmanned aerial system technology is being developed to fly into the containment vessels of the damaged reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan to assess their condition. Tokyo Electric Power Company contracted the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) of the USA to carry outÃâà...
The Mainichi
December 31, 1999
The lawsuit was filed last Wednesday with U.S. federal courts in the Southern District of California and the District of Columbia by participants in the U.S. forces' Operation Tomodachi relief effort carried out in the wake of the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami that crippled TEPCO's Fukushima DaiichiÃâà...
The Straits Times
December 31, 1999
BANGKOK - Thailand is the first country to receive a shipment of fresh fish from Japan's Fukushima prefecture following the March 2011 nuclear disaster. A 110-kg shipment of fresh flounder was exported to Thailand on Wednesday (Feb 28), reported Jiji Press. The fish was meant to be served in sushi andÃâà...
CleanTechnica
December 31, 1999
A new study by a team of international researchers has for the first time “explicitly revealed” uranium and other radioactive materials in the surrounding environment of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors following the nuclear accident at the site in 2011. In a study published in the journalÃâà...
