Water leak at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant

The port of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant where the highly radioactive fish was caught. (Photo: Asahi Shimbun) A fish with record levels of radioactive cesium was caught in the waters outside the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, ...

Power was mostly restored at Japan's Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear station after an outage caused a stoppage of water pumps used to cool spent uranium fuel at the tsunami-damaged plant. No spikes in radiation levels were recorded near the plant during ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tokyo Electric Power Co. said a power failure occurred at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station just before 7 p.m. Monday, leading to the suspension of systems to cool spent fuel pools of the No. 1, 3 and 4 reactor ...

Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) has informed the International Atomic Energy Agency that cooling systems at all spent fuel pools at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station have

At around 2:48 PM today (May 18), there was an earthquake (M5.9) in the offshore of Fukushima Prefecture. (Naraha Town: seismic intensity 4, Tomioka Town: seismic intensity 3, Okuma Town: seismic intensity 3) As for Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power ...

A review mission from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will visit Japan from April 15 to 22 this year to review the Mid-and-Long-Term Roadmap towards the Decommissioning of TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Units 1-4 and ...

An aerial view shows Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s (TEPCO) tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture March 11, 2013.Photo: Kyodo Experts judged on Wednesday that a reactor on Japan's west coast is located on ground ...

Workers monitor the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant from the Emergency Response Centre. Photo: IAEA/Gill Tudor 22 May 2013 Experts from the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are heading to Japan to launch an emergency ...

Sponsored by Following the March 2011 events at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) established a task force to determine whether safety improvements should be recommended for US commercial nuclear ...