Japan’s Fukushima Farmers Fear Contaminated Water Release Will Hit Produce Prices November 5, 2021 By Sakura Murakami IWAKI, Japan – Farmers in Japan’s northeastern Fukushima fear the release of water from the crippled power plant there could...
How Dangerous Is Japan’s Fukushima Nuclear Plant After 10 Years of Cleanup? March 12, 2021 By Mari Yamaguchi OKUMA, Japan – A decade ago, a massive tsunami crashed into the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Three of its...
Tsunami-Wrecked Fukushima Nuclear Plant Begins Fuel Removal in Melted Reactor April 18, 2019 By Mari Yamaguchi The operator of the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant began removing fuel Monday [April 15] from a cooling pool at one...
Kobe Steel Supply Chain Scandal Spreads; 500 Customers Used Affected Products October 13, 2017 By Yuka Obayashi The cheating crisis engulfing Kobe Steel Ltd just got bigger. Chief Executive Hiroya Kawasaki on Friday revealed that about 500...
Gov’t, TEPCO Held Accountable by Japan Court for Fukushima Nuclear Accident October 12, 2017 By Mari Yamaguchi A Japanese court on Tuesday [Oct. 10] ordered the government and the operator of the Fukushima nuclear plant to pay...
Japan Court Rules Tepco, not Government, Must Pay $3.4M to Ex-Fukushima Residents September 27, 2017 By Mari Yamaguchi A Japanese court ruled Friday [Sept. 22] that a utility, not the government, should pay compensation to dozens of former...
6 Years After Fukushima Disaster, Robots Continue Search for Radioactive Fuel February 24, 2017 By Emi Urabe and Stephen Stapczynski The latest robot seeking to find the 600 tons of nuclear fuel and debris that melted down six years ago...
Judge: Sailors Can Sue California Company Over Fukushima Exposure October 30, 2014 By Jacob Adelman U.S. Navy personnel who were exposed to radiation from Japan’s wrecked Fukushima plant during earthquake and tsunami relief efforts in...
Tepco Rebuilding Plan Approved January 15, 2014 By Masumi Suga and Jacob Adelman Tokyo Electric Power Co. won the support of the government and banks for a plan to rebuild its business, the...
Japan Earmarks Additional $30B for Fukushima Clean-Up, Compensation November 12, 2013 By Yoshifumi Takemoto Japan’s government is finalising plans to borrow an additional 3 trillion yen ($30 billion) to pay for compensating Fukushima evacuees...