Tokyo: Radioactive water has apparently leaked from another underground storage tank at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co said on Sunday. The utility, known as Tepco, said the volume of the latest leakage is believed to be small.
On Saturday, it said as much as 120 tons of radioactive water may have leaked from another nearby storage tank. The plant's seven storage tanks are lined with water proof sheets meant to keep the contaminated water from leaking into the soil. The power company has faced a range of problems with leaks and with the plant's cooling system.
Tepco said on Friday it lost the ability to cool radioactive fuel rods in one of the plant's reactors for about three hours, the second cooling system failure at the plant in three weeks.
The 9.0 earthquake that shook Japan on March 11, 2011 triggered a 15-metre tsunami that struck the Fukushima Daiichi plant and set off the chain of events that caused its reactors to start melting down. ...
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05:46 PM, Apr 07, 2013
The controversial Kudankulam Unit I of the atomic power reactor in Tamil Nadu will become operational by April, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said. He gave this assurance to Russian President Vladimir Putin when the two met here on Tuesday night on the sidelines of the BRICS summit. ...
12:41 PM, Mar 27, 2013
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was on Sunday urged to cancel the contract with French company Areva to set up nuclear reactors in Jaitpur in Maharashtra. The National Committee in Solidarity with Jaitapur Struggle said the plan to put up six reactors in Jaitapur "appears seriously flawed" after the Fukushima disaster in Japan. The appeal to the prime minister was signed by political leaders Prakash Karat, AB Bardhan, Ram...
04:00 PM, Aug 26, 2012
Tokyo: The good thing is that Misaki Murakami's name was on his soccer ball. It was lost in last year's tsunami in Japan but has been found across the Pacific on a remote Alaskan island. Kyodo News agency says the 16-year-old from the devastated town of Rikuzentakata is surprised and thankful that the ball has been found. Officials from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration say the ball is one...
02:05 PM, Apr 23, 2012
New Delhi: In the midst of the run-up to the French presidential elections, France has been in dialogue with India to clarify issues relating to the nuclear liability law, and is waiting for New Delhi to establish the legal framework before signing commercial contracts for setting up atomic reactors. Last month, French nuclear experts had come to India and held talks with Indian experts to clarify issues relating to the...
02:58 AM, Apr 06, 2012
Vienna: Global use of nuclear energy could increase by as much as 100 per cent in the next two decades on the back of growth in Asia, even though groundbreakings for new reactors fell last year after the Fukushima disaster, a UN report says. The report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which has not yet been made public but has been seen by Reuters, said a somewhat slower...
02:16 AM, Mar 17, 2012
New Delhi: Nuclear energy still has a role in India, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said as he appeared to blame some US-based NGOs for difficulties at the Kudankulam nuclear plant. "Yes, where India is concerned, yes. The thinking segment of our population certainly is supportive of nuclear energy," he said. He was asked whether after the Fukushima disaster he still thought that nuclear energy has a role in India....
01:44 AM, Feb 24, 2012
