Ken Belson The New York Times

• 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...

• Japan releases low-level radioactive water into ocean

  Tokyo Electric Power Company began dumping more than 11,000 tons of radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant on Monday, mostly to make room in storage containers for increasing amounts of far more contaminated runoff.The water, most of it to be released over two days, contains about 100 times the legal limit...

• Japan reactor leaking radioactive water into ocean

  Highly radioactive water is leaking directly into the sea from a damaged pit near a crippled reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, safety officials said Saturday, the latest setback in the increasingly messy bid to regain control of the reactors. Although higher levels of radiation have been detected in the ocean waters near the pla...

• Japan: Loss of control frightens Tokyo

  Japan, a country lulled by the reassuring rhythms of order and predictability, has been jolted by earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis into an unsettling new reality: lack of control. In a nation where you can set your watch by a train's arrival and a conductor apologizes for even a one-minute delay, rolling blackouts have forced commuters to lea...