Fukushima: Japan's prime minister ordered workers to remain at the tsunami-crippled Fukushima nuclear plant last March as fears mounted of a "devil's chain reaction" that would force tens of millions of people to flee Tokyo, a new investigative report shows. Then-premier Naoto Kan and his staff began referring to a worst case scenario that could threaten Japan's existence as a nation around three days after the March 11 earthquake and...
08:13 PM, Feb 28, 2012
Okuma: Media allowed into Japan's tsunami-damaged nuclear power plant for the first time on Saturday saw a striking scene of devastation: twisted and overturned trucks, crumbling reactor buildings and piles of rubble virtually untouched since the wave struck more than eight months ago. Representatives of the Japanese and international media, including The Associated Press, were allowed into the plant with the government's chief official in charge of the world's worst...
03:07 PM, Nov 12, 2011
Tokyo: The amount of radioactive cesium that has leaked from a tsunami-hit nuclear plant is about equal to 168 of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima at the end of World War II, Japan's nuclear agency said on Friday. The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency supplied the estimate at a parliamentary panel's request, but it noted a simple comparison between an instantaneous bomb blast and long-term accidental leak is impossible...
11:44 PM, Aug 26, 2011
Tokyo: Japan's Nikkei stock average fell for a second straight day on Thursday, hurt by the Yen's persistent strength and fears the US might be heading for another recession, with many investors on the sidelines ahead of US economic data. Chip-related shares underperformed after Dell's disappointing sales outlook fanned worries that weaker economic growth will hurt earnings in the third quarter and sent US tech shares tumbling. "The biggest problem...
08:44 AM, Aug 18, 2011
Tokyo: Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said on Saturday that it will take decades to clean up and decommission the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant after the world's worst atomic accident since Chernobyl. Kan's comments marked the first time that Japan's government has offered a timeframe for the clean-up at Fukushima beyond the emergency measures now underway to shut down its reactors. "It will take three, five, ten years, or eventually...
08:50 AM, Jul 10, 2011
Tokyo: A strong earthquake jolted northeastern Japan on Sunday, and workers at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant were evacuated after an alert for a half-meter tsunami was issued by the Japan Meteorological Agency. The tsunami warning was later lifted. The quake monitoring agency said the earthquake had a magnitude of 7.1 and occurred at a depth of 10 kms off the northeastern coast of Japan. There were no immediate...
07:21 AM, Jul 10, 2011
Tokyo: Nearly 70 per cent of Japanese oppose the restart of nuclear reactors halted for maintenance work, a poll showed on Monday, even though keeping them shut could mean power blackouts this summer and higher electricity bills. Public fears about nuclear power have grown due to the crisis at Tokyo Electric Power Co's Fukushima Daiichi plant, where workers are struggling to control radiation leaks from meltdowns after reactor cooling systems...
12:58 PM, Jun 27, 2011
Tokyo: Japan should raise taxes to fund rebuilding after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, the government's advisory panel said on Saturday, but it is unclear how binding its recommendations will be given the political impasse over the fate of Prime Minister Naoto Kan. The panel's proposal provides the basis for spending on reconstruction of Japan's northeast devastated by the magnitude 9.0 quake and a deadly tsunami, which is widely...
12:34 PM, Jun 25, 2011
Shanghai: China's suspension of nuclear project approvals, put in place in the wake of Japan's nuclear crisis, could be lifted by mid-2012, a newspaper reported on Saturday. The State Council, or cabinet, suspended approvals of new nuclear projects on March 16, days after Japan's quake-ravaged nuclear complex triggered radiation worries worldwide, especially in neighbouring China. "To restart the approval procedure in one year is the optimistic estimate, but the country...
11:04 AM, Jun 25, 2011
Vienna: The UN nuclear chief proposed international safety checks on reactors worldwide to help prevent any repeat of Japan's atomic crisis, a plan which may face resistance from nations worried about outside involvement. Yukiya Amano, opening a ministerial meeting on Monday aimed at improving safety after the Fukushima emergency, also called on countries to carry out risk assessments on their nuclear power plants within 18 months. "Public confidence in the...
01:10 AM, Jun 21, 2011
Tokyo: A rise in radiation halted the clean-up of radioactive water at Japan's Fukushima nuclear power station on Saturday hours after it got under way, a fresh setback to efforts to restore control over the quake-stricken plant. The power plant has been leaking radiation into the atmosphere ever since the March 11 quake and tsunami and both China and South Korea have expressed concern over the possibility of further leaks...
05:19 PM, Jun 18, 2011
Tokyo: The operator of Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant, said on Saturday it had suspended an operation to clean up radioactive water only hours after it had begun as radiation levels rose faster than expected. "The level of radiation at a machine to absorb caesium has risen faster than our initial projections," said a spokesman for Tokyo Electric Power Co. The plan had got underway on Friday after being...
09:36 AM, Jun 18, 2011
Tokyo: The operator of Japan's crisis-hit nuclear power plant said it would start an operation to clean up radioactive water later on Friday, after several glitches that delayed the plan. Unless the clean-up begins, large and growing pools of radioactive water could spill into the sea within a week, officials said. Tokyo Electric Power Co, known as Tepco, has pumped massive amounts of water to cool three reactors at the...
05:50 PM, Jun 17, 2011
Tokyo: Japan's crisis-hit nuclear power plant could spill more radioactive water into the sea within a week unless engineers can fix a glitch in a new system to clean up pools of contaminated water, officials said. Tokyo Electric Power Co, known as Tepco, has pumped massive amounts of water to cool three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, which had meltdowns after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disabled cooling...
10:16 AM, Jun 17, 2011
Tokyo: Protesters in Tokyo held mass demonstrations on Saturday against the use of nuclear power, as Japanese marked the three-month anniversary of the powerful earthquake and tsunami that killed tens of thousands and triggered one of the world's worst nuclear disasters. The magnitude-9 earthquake that hit off Japan's northeast coast March 11 caused a massive tsunami that devastated the coastline. The disasters knocked out power and cooling systems at the...
12:20 PM, Jun 11, 2011
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