Sep 20 2019
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The Tokyo District Court has acquitted three former Tokyo Electric Power Company executives charged with criminal…
Feb 14 2019
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Tepco, the state-owned operator of the badly damaged Fukushima nuclear plant, has conducted an important test in…
Apr 22 2015
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The dangerous and unenviable task of cleaning up the Fukushima reactor has hit its latest snag: Two snake-like…
Feb 27 2015
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More reports, more mystery leaks, more questions about the complexity of cleaning up a broken nuclear plant.
Feb 22 2015
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Fukushima is Japan's radiation nightmare that just won't go away. Ever since March 11, 2011, the damaged plant has…
Jun 17 2014
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Remember how Japan decided to build that crazy ice wall to contain the Fukushima nuclear plant's radioactive water…
May 26 2014
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Remember that time Japan had the crazy idea to build a giant ice wall to contain the plant's radioactive water leaks?…
Nov 18 2013
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TEPCO workers successfully removed the first fuel rods from the damaged reactors at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant and…
Oct 9 2013
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In case you weren't already concerned enough about the wacky (re: highly dangerous) antics going over at the…
Sep 3 2013
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After weeks of deliberation, the Japanese government has finally intervened in the increasingly desperate situation…
Jul 22 2013
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Well over two years after the Tōhuku earthquake and tsunami, TEPCO officials admit that radioactive groundwater has…
Jan 25 2012
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TEPCO officials attempted to peer inside the damaged #2 Fukushima reactor this week but couldn't discern the level…
Sep 13 2011
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Six months after Japan's Fukushima reactors suffered a level 7 meltdown, the director general of the International…
Aug 1 2011
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In case you forgot, one of the worst disasters since the advent of nuclear energy is still underway. And although…
Jun 28 2011
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After decades of sterling grins and nuclear juice, TEPCO is finally being realized as the crooked, careless…
Jun 28 2011
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TEPCO's been struggling to keep Fukushima's scorching reactors cool. They've also been struggling to deal with the…
May 20 2011
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The first in what could become a long line of heads rolled as Masataka Shimizu, the embattled president of TEPCo,…
Apr 22 2011
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We knew that the longterm plan for Fukushima's nuclear plant was to get the thing safely shut down and…
Apr 20 2011
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A recent medical examination of the emergency crew struggling to save Fukushima says the indicates are at risk for…
Apr 18 2011
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There is a lot of dangerous, radioactive water inside Fukushima, as TEPCO struggles to keep the fuel rods from…