Fukushima Plant

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  Strong Earthquake In Southwestern Japan Kills 9, Topples Homes

  Nine people were killed after a powerful earthquake hit southern Japan, toppling homes, sparking fires and injuring hundreds, officials said Friday, as rescuers scrambled to find residents feared trapped in rubble.

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  'Significant Progress' in Decommissioning Fukushima: UN Agency

  Japan has made "significant progress" in cleaning up the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, a UN review mission said today as it again advised the country to consider discharging treated water into the sea.

• Japan Nuclear Plant Gets Safety Clearance, Shinzo Abe Hopes for Restarts

  A nuclear plant in southern Japan cleared an initial safety hurdle on Wednesday which could make it the first nuclear facility to restart under tough new safety regulations after the industry was idled by the 2011 Fukushima disaster.

• New high-radiation spots found at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant

  The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant said on Thursday new spots of high radiation had been found near storage tanks holding highly contaminated water, raising fear of fresh leaks as the disaster goes from bad to worse.

• Crippled Japan nuclear plant hit by power cut

  Engineers at Fukushima were scrambling on Tuesday to restore power to cooling systems after an outage, in the latest incident to underline the precarious fix at the tsunami-crippled nuclear plant.

• Japan declares tsunami-crippled Fukushima nuclear plant stable

  The tsunami-devastated Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant has reached a stable state of "cold shutdown" and is no longer leaking substantial amounts of radiation, Japan's prime minister announced Friday.

• More radioactive water leaks at Japanese plant

  At least 45 tons of highly radioactive water have leaked from a purification facility at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station, and some of it may have reached the Pacific Ocean, the plant's operator said Sunday.

• India's post-Fukushima syndrome can backfire: Russian expert

  The ongoing wave of protests over the construction of Kudankulam nuclear power plant in Tamil Nadu could affect India's ambitious nuclear energy generation and could backfire to deprive the South Asian giant of its critical advantage over China, warns a top Russian expert.

• Two workers at Fukushima exceed radiation limit

  Japan's Health Minister Ritsuo Hosokawa said on Tuesday that he has ordered some staff at the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant to stop working amid concerns that two workers might have exceeded a radiation exposure limit.The plant's owner, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), said on Monday that the two control room operators are being teste...

• Nine-month plan is set for crippled Japan nuclear plant

  Tokyo Electric Power Company said Sunday that it hopes to bring the reactors at its hobbled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into a stable state known as cold shutdown within the next nine months, during which the three damaged reactor buildings at the facility will be covered.The goals are part of a two-part plan that represents Tokyo Electri...

• High levels of radiation found in water at n-plant

  Workers at Japan's damaged nuclear plant raced to pump out contaminated water suspected of sending radioactivity levels soaring as officials warned on Monday that radiation seeping from the complex was spreading to seawater and soil.Contaminated water inside Unit 2 has tested at radiation levels some 100-thousand times normal amounts, plant operato...

• Japan resumes cooling down nuclear reactors

  Japan resumed dousing its crippled nuclear plant early today after an overnight break of several hours, officials said, as they pushed on with a desperate effort to avert an atomic catastrophe.Fire trucks from the Self-Defense Forces had just started aiming their high pressure water jets at reactor four of the ruined Fukushima plant, said a nuclear...