via NY Times / June 3rd, 2013 / The operator of the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant said Tuesday that it would ask regulators to allow it to restart two reactors at a separate site in eastern Japan, even as problems with the company’s cleanup in Fukushima continue to multiply. The request by the operator, the Tokyo Electric Power Company, is expected to be among a flurry of such … Continue reading →
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via Japan Times / June 30, 2013 / Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Saturday it has detected high levels of radioactive substances, including strontium, emitting beta rays in groundwater taken from a well at the port of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant. Tepco said 3,000 becquerels of radioactive substances per liter were recorded in groundwater from the well, located just 6 meters from the Pacific. That concentration is 100 … Continue reading →
Continue readingvia NHK World / June 26, 2013 / A group of shareholders at Tokyo Electric Power Company is demanding the utility withdraw from the business of nuclear power generation. TEPCO operates the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Shareholders gathered in Tokyo on Wednesday. It was their first annual meeting since the utility was effectively placed under government control. TEPCO Chairman Kazuhiko Shimokobe apologized to shareholders for continuing to cause … Continue reading →
Continue readingvia TheStar.com / June 19, 2013 / High levels of toxic strontium-90 have been found in groundwater at the devastated Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan, the utility that operates the facility said on Wednesday Strontium-90 is a by-product of the fission of uranium and plutonium in nuclear reactors as well as nuclear weapons, according to the website of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. It was not immediately clear how … Continue reading →
Continue readingvia The Asahi Shimbun / June 16, 2013 / With the government facing difficulty in finding disposal sites, municipalities in Fukushima Prefecture are being unofficially notified that the goal for completion of radioactive decontamination work in March 2014 may not be met, sources said. The government also informed municipalities that it will not allow decontamination work to be redone in areas where radiation levels have not declined even after … Continue reading →
Continue readingvia The Mainichi / June 13, 2013 / Tokyo Electric Power Co. on Wednesday again corrected the radiation level of groundwater samples taken from the premises of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex, saying it was a tenth of the level announced earlier this month. It is the second time that the utility has corrected the data regarding groundwater, part of which TEPCO is seeking to dump in the Pacific … Continue reading →
Continue readingvia Asahi Shimbun / June 12, 2013 / A canopy has been completed over a heavily damaged reactor building at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in preparation for removing the spent nuclear fuel inside. Tokyo Electric Power Co. allowed reporters to tour part of the facility, which experienced reactor meltdowns after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster, on June 11. The upper part of the No. 4 reactor … Continue reading →
Continue readingvia Japan Times / June 10, 2013 / The government and Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Monday they may be able to start removing the melted fuel inside the crippled nuclear reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 complex around 18 months earlier than initially planned, although this action would still be years away. The process would reportedly begin with the removal of fuel assemblies from the outside-reactor spent-fuel pools of … Continue reading →
Continue readingvia Russia Today / June 06, 2013 / The operator of the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant said Wednesday that it had found a leak in one of the hundreds of steel tanks used to store radioactive water at the plant, raising renewed questions about the company’s ability to handle the plant’s cleanup. The discovery comes a day after the operator, the Tokyo Electric Power Company, or Tepco, admitted that it … Continue reading →
Continue readingvia Japan Today / May 31, 2013 / A government panel of experts on Thursday recommended that Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) consider freezing the soil around the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to reduce the amount of radioactive groundwater being generated by water flowing into the plant. According to the panel’s plan, pipes would be placed in the ground and filled with coolant at a temperature of minus … Continue reading →
Continue readingvia JapanTimes.co.jp / May 30, 2013 / To reduce the flow of groundwater into the crippled reactor buildings at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima No. 1 atomic plant, the government told Tepco on Thursday to freeze the soil around them. Walls of frozen soil can be created by inserting pipes into the soil and injecting them with coolant. Tokyo-based major general contractor Kajima Corp. came up with the idea. A … Continue reading →
Continue readingby Bryan Walsh / via Time / May 1, 2013 / Honestly, if the consequences weren’t potentially so dire, the ongoing struggles to clean up the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in northern Japan would be the stuff of comedy. In March, an extended blackout disabled power to a vital cooling system for days. The cause: a rat that had apparently been chewing on cables in a switchboard. As if that’s … Continue reading →
Continue readingby John Hofilena / via Japan Daily Press / April 1, 2013 / Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) has come out and publicly said on Friday that it deserves a majority of the blame for the Fukushima nuclear disaster, a very strong statement about the company?…
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Continue readingvia ABC Australia / February 19, 2013 / Nearly two years after the meltdowns at Fukushima a report by Greenpeace has revealed companies that helped design and build the reactors are not required to pay any compensation and are in fact profiting from th…
Continue readingby Jin Nishikawa / The Asahi Shimbun / February 14, 2013 The Nuclear Regulation Authority is to inspect a building at the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant that may contain evidence proving whether it was the powerful tsunami or the earthquake tha…
Continue readingby Hideaki Kimura / via The Asahi Shimbun / February 12, 2013 Naomi Hirose, president of Tokyo Electric Power Co., denied an organization-wide effort to interfere with a Diet investigation into the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, saying one official …
Continue readingvia GlobalPost / February 4, 2013 / Fukushima operator TEPCO said Monday it expected to lose about $1.29 billion in the year to March, close to three times an earlier estimate, citing compensation and higher energy costs. Tokyo Electric Power said it w…
Continue readingBy Catriona Davies / CNN / February 5, 2013 / Few people would use the word “fantastic” to describe a visit to Fukushima, the site of Japan’s 2011 nuclear disaster. But Lady Barbara Judge is not just anybody. Judge, a 66-year-old lawy…
Continue readingvia The Guardian / December 14, 2012 / The operator of a Japanese nuclear power plant that blew up after a tsunami last year has admitted its lack of a safety culture and bad habits were behind the world’s worst nuclear accident in 25 years, its …
Continue readingBy Miki Aoki / via The Asahi Shimbun / November 22, 2012 / Of the many thousands of workers who have risked radiation exposure at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, only a paltry 3.7 percent are eligible for free cancer screenings provid…
Continue readingBy Tsuyoshi Inajima and Yasumasa Song / via Bloomberg / November 7, 2012 / Tokyo Electric Power Co. asked the government for more aid after estimating it may need at least 11 trillion yen ($137 billion) to cover costs from last year’s nuclear disaste…
Continue readingBy Masakazu Honda / The Asahi Shimbun / November 2, 2012 / More than 10,000 people from across Japan are seeking criminal charges against officials of Japan’s government and the utility that operates the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, after…
Continue readingvia The Economist / October 8, 2012 / IT HAS taken the Japanese government more than 18 months to pay tribute to a group of brave men, once known as the “Fukushima 50”, who risked their lives to prevent meltdowns at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear p…
Continue readingvia TEPCO / October 5, 2012 / A total of 161 video clips of our TV conference held at the Emergency Disaster Restoration Room, etc. (selected from approx. 150 hours of the recorded meeting during the period from the accident to March 15, 2011) have bee…
Continue readingvia ENEnews.com / September 5, 2012 / First, Tepco released the badly altered photo, which was deleted and replaced with an alteration of the original alteration. Now Tepco has altered their original statement on the alterations. Perhaps they will elab…
Continue readingby Hiroko Tabuchi / via The New York Times / September 5, 2012 / Japan would be foolish to abandon nuclear power, the operator of the ravaged Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station warned Wednesday, saying the company had not ruled out reopening two o…
Continue readingvia ENEnews.com / September 1, 2012 / Photo set published August 30, 2012 only on Tepco’s Japanese-language website: http://photo.tepco.co.jp/date/2012/201208-j/120830-03j.html Direct link to photo: http://photo.tepco.co.jp/library/20120830_03/120830…
Continue readingJapan Times / September 2, 2012 / Tokyo Electric Power Co. on Saturday raised electricity rates for households by an average of 8.46 percent to help cover the massive costs arising from the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe. About 28.7 million contracts wi…
Continue readingvia NHK World / September 1, 2012 / Saturday marks one year since a government arbitration body began accepting damages files from victims of last year’s nuclear accident. However, arbitration officials say only one seventh of the filed damages c…
Continue readingby Richard Wilcox / via DissidentVoice.org / August 31, 2012 / End of the day, factory whistle cries, Men walk through these gates with death in their eyes. – Bruce Springsteen, “Factory” Bring us the living dead. People no one will miss. – Fuk…
Continue readingvia The Japan Times / August 18, 2012 / National policy minister Motohisa Furukawa has said that reactors 5 and 6 at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant and the nearby No. 2 power station should never be restarted. Furukawa made the remarks Thursday whil…
Continue readingvia RT / August 13, 2012 / The reactors at crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant are not stable, says its former head. He urged for international expertise to be called in to make the site of one of world’s worst nuclear disasters safe. “Peopl…
Continue readingvia InfoShop.org / August 9, 2012 / Around 13:20 of 3/14/2012, just after reactor 3 exploded, Sato, Fukushima governor required Tepco to announce “there was no concern that radiation from reactor 3 may affect human body because the wind blows from No…
Continue readingvia WallStreetJournal / August 6, 2012 / On Monday, Tokyo Electric Power Co. for the first time released footage taken inside its command centers during last year’s devastating accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The visuals won’…
Continue readingby Yuji Okada / Bloomberg / August 7, 2012 / As the first hydrogen explosion rocked the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co. (9501) officials scrambled to prevent a second blast, at one point weighing the use of firearms to shoot …
Continue readingvia The Daily Yomiuri / August 8, 2012 / Tokyo Electric Power Co. has at long last made public, albeit partially, video images of in-house teleconferences held during the crisis at its Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant to discuss countermeasures. The…
Continue readingvia The Mainichi / August 4, 2012 / We must condemn Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) over its restrictions on news media access to footage of videoconferences it held immediately after the outbreak of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. The utility will sh…
Continue readingby Kaname Ohira and Mari Fujisaki / The Asahi Shimbun / July 31, 2012 / The bailout of embattled Tokyo Electric Power Co. got under way July 31, with an equity investment of 1 trillion yen ($12.78 billion) in taxpayer money. Public funds will also be u…
Continue readingvia Daily Yomiuri / July 25, 2012 / Retired Japanese engineers are set to embark on a monthlong tour of the United States to seek that country’s support to realize their desire to help contain the Fukushima nuclear crisis. The group wants to work…
Continue readingvia The Asahi Shimbun / July 25, 2012 / Subcontracted staff at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant are working for as little as 30 percent of the daily rates paid by Tokyo Electric Power Co. on short-term, sometimes illegal contracts. Nine out of t…
Continue readingThe Yomiuri Shimbun / July 26, 2012 / Tokyo Electric Power Co. has introduced new compensation criteria for victims who own houses or housing lots in areas evacuated due to the crisis at the utility’s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, and anno…
Continue readingby Rick Wallace / The Australian / July 24, 2012 / THE misguided and arrogant faith that TEPCO and nuclear regulators held in Japan’s nuclear safety “myth” contributed to the severity of the Fukushima disaster, a panel has found. R…
Continue readingvia Japan Times / July 21, 2012 / Tokyo Electric Power Co. next week plans to reassess its final report on the Fukushima nuclear disaster to address contradictions with the final report recently released by an independent Diet panel, a Tepco official s…
Continue readingvia Japan Times / July 20, 2012 / The government said Thursday it will order Tokyo Electric Power Co. to trim its rate hike for households to an average of 8.47 percent from its planned 10.28 percent after determining the utility can further reduce sal…
Continue readingby Natalie Apostolou / The Register / July 16, 2012 / Japan’s troubled Tokyo Electric Power Co, Tepco, the operator of the Fukushima nuclear plant, will be forced to release hundreds of hours of in-house teleconference video footage revealing executi…
Continue readingvia Japan Times / July 15, 2012 / Tepco Chairman Kazuhiko Shimokobe has urged the government to quickly complete the screening process for its planned electricity rate hike for households to strengthen the company’s battered finances. Shimokobe s…
Continue readingvia RT / July 9, 2012 / On the afternoon of March 11th, 2011 – a massive 9.0 earthquake struck just off the main island of Japan – rattling the nation to its core. Nestled on the east coast of Japan – not too far from the epicenter of…
Continue readingvia Japan Times / July 8, 2012 / Tepco probably won’t be able to raise household electricity bills until Sept. 1 due to prolonged talks over the size of the hike within the government, sources said Saturday. Tokyo Electric Power Co. initially hop…
Continue readingby David Shukman / via BBC / July 7, 2012 / The devastating conclusion that Japan’s Fukushima nuclear meltdown was an accident waiting to happen has grabbed the headlines. But the investigation has also unearthed worrying questions about the cata…
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