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- Fukushima: Japan will have to dump radioactive water into Pacific, minister says Tue, 10 Sep 19, 5:02pmMore than a million tonnes of contaminated water lies in storage but power company says it will run out of space by 2022
- Fukushima: removal of nuclear fuel rods from damaged reactor building begins Mon, 15 Apr 19, 2:31pmWorkers begin to empty storage pool – but more critical removal of melted fuel from reactors themselves will be more challenging
- It Sounds Crazy, But Fukushima, Chernobyl, And Three Mile Island Show Why Nuclear Is Inherently Safe Wed, 13 Mar 19, 2:00pmFrom Forbes Michael Shellenberger Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Energy I write about energy and the environment After a tsunami struck the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan eight years ago...
- Fukushima grapples with toxic soil that no one wants Mon, 11 Mar 19, 7:25pmEight years after the disaster, not a single location will take the millions of cubic metres of radioactive soil that remain
- Britain’s nuclear U-turn puts us in a very lonely club | Fred Pearce Fri, 8 Jun 18, 9:30pmPumping £5bn into a new plant in north Wales as a way to fight climate change is a solution at odds with the rest of the world
- Is Fukushima doomed to become a dumping ground for toxic waste? Sat, 17 Mar 18, 12:12amDespite promises of revitalisation from Japan’s government, seven years on from the nuclear disaster the area is still desolate
- Town where nobody's home: Fukushima communities struggling to survive Fri, 9 Mar 18, 2:36pmSeven years after the nuclear disaster, 50,000 people have yet to return to their homes, but the dream of going back endures
- Short-term thinking of UK nuclear policy | Letters Thu, 4 Jan 18, 5:05amSue Roaf writes that evacuation plans for Hinkley Point would have to involve at least a million people; while Diarmuid Foley says that, in the modern world, the route to weapons-grade material is not taken through the civilian...
- Japan mulls pouring 1 million metric tons of radioactive Fukushima water into Pacific Ocean Tue, 28 Nov 17, 2:33amFukushima cleanup continues over six years after the 2011 disaster - and the country hasn't yet decided what to do with one million metric tons of radioactive water currently stored at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power...
- Japan mulls pouring 1M metric tons of radioactive Fukushima water into Pacific Ocean Tue, 28 Nov 17, 2:33amFukushima cleanup continues over six years after the 2011 disaster - and the country hasn't yet decided what to do with one million metric tons of radioactive water currently stored at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power...
- Fukushima residents win 500m yen payout over nuclear disaster Tue, 10 Oct 17, 9:14pmCourt rules that Japanese government could have done more to prevent meltdown at plant caused by tsunami
- Fukushima operator can restart nuclear reactors at world's biggest plant Wed, 4 Oct 17, 8:23pmTepco, still struggling to decommission Fukushima Daiichi, gets initial approval to start two reactors at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa
- Dozens of Japanese cities and towns quietly go off-grid Tue, 19 Sep 17, 10:54pmDozens of cities and towns in Japan have quietly shifted from traditional utility-based grid power system to a more local, resilient model of generating and storing energy where it is used. After significant damage caused...
- Fukushima is surrendering to nature six years after nuclear meltdown Fri, 11 Aug 17, 1:52amNature has come for Fukushima. Six years after a nuclear meltdown resulted in a mass exodus of neighboring residents, the Fukushima prefecture is slowly being engulfed by a sea of green. Access to the Fukushima Exclusion...
- Fukushima robot finds lava-like deposits thought to be melted nuclear fuel Mon, 24 Jul 17, 11:35pmSix years after the Fukushima Daiichi meltdowns, there's still a lot of cleanup to be done. Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) deployed an underwater robot to assess damage inside the Unit 3 reactor in Japan last week,...