Fukushima Update #12 “Safety Measures at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa”

This edition begins with an update on the transfer of fuel assemblies from the spent fuel pool of reactor 4 at Fukushima...

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Safety measures at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa

Our feature this week focuses on Tokyo Electric Power Company’s plan to restart two reactors at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa n...

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Evacuated schools opened to parents

Six schools in evacuated areas near Fukushima Daiichi have been opened to parents for the first time since March 2011.

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Effort to relaunch rice farming

Rice cultivated in formerly evacuated areas around Fukushima is being tested for radiation. The project aims to reopen s...

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Spent fuel transfer begins

Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant have completed the first transfer of spent fuel assemblies from the pool ...

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Fukushima Update #11

This week we start with news on TEPCO’s decision to decommission two reactors which were not damaged by the nuclear acci...

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Challenges of nuclear fuel removal

Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant have begun extracting fuel rods from one of the facility’s spent fuel poo...

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Company develops soil decontamination device

A private Japanese company says it has developed a device to reduce the amount of radioactive particles in contaminated ...

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Govt. to identify nuclear waste disposal sites

The Secretary General of Japan’s ruling party says the government should take the lead in identifying sites for the fina...

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TEPCO to decommission two more reactors

The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has decided to decommission two reactors that were not damaged by th...

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