Tokyo Court Rules Only Fukushima Operator Must Pay Compensation, Cuts Damages December 28, 2023 By Mari Yamaguchi A Tokyo court has ruled that only the operator of the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant had to pay damages...
Removing Fukushima’s Melted Nuclear Fuel Will Be Harder Than Wastewater Release August 29, 2023 By Mari Yamaguchi At a small section of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant’s central control room, the treated water transfer switch is on....
TEPCO Says Seawater Radioactivity Below Detectable Limits After Fukushima Release August 28, 2023 By Sakura Murakami and Kantaro Komiya Initial tests showed seawater radioactivity to be below detectable levels after the release of treated radioactive water from Japan’s Fukushima...
Why Is Japan Releasing Treated Radioactive Water and Is it Safe? August 25, 2023 Japan began pumping more than a million metric tons of treated radioactive water from the destroyed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power...
Japan Begins Releasing Nuclear Wastewater in Process That Could Last 30 Years August 24, 2023 By Shoko Oda Japan started the release of treated wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear site into the Pacific Ocean in a process that...
Japan to Release Water Into Sea From Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant on Aug. 24 August 22, 2023 By Sakura Murakami and Tom Bateman Japan said on Tuesday it will start releasing into the sea more than 1 million metric tons of treated radioactive...
Japan to Release Fukushima Water as Soon as August: Reports August 7, 2023 By Shoko Oda The Japanese government is preparing to start releasing treated wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear disaster site into the sea as...
New Images From Inside Fukushima Nuclear Reactor Spark Safety Concerns April 5, 2023 By Mari Yamaguchi Images captured by a robotic probe inside one of the three melted reactors at Japan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant...
What’s Happening at Fukushima Nuclear Plant 12 Years After Meltdown? March 15, 2023 By Mari Yamaguchi Twelve years after the triple reactor meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Japan is preparing to release a...
Court Orders 4 Ex-Tepco Execs to Pay $95B in Damages Over Fukushima Disaster July 13, 2022 The Tokyo district court on Wednesday ordered four former executives of Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) to pay 13 trillion...