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Russian expert comments on projected scheme to remove molten fuel from Fukushima reactors
In their latest annual strategic progress report, experts from Japan’s Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning Facilitation Corporation (NDF – part of Tokyo Electric...
IAEA laboratories analyse treated water from Fukushima Daiichi
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is conducting independent analysis and data corroboration related to the discharge of treated water from the Fukushima Daiichi NPP...
Tepco postpones Fukushima debris removal pending adjustments to robot arm
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (Tepco) says it will have to delay to late 2023 the removal of melted nuclear fuel debris from the unit 2 reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi NPP...
Deadline relaxed for release of treated Fukushima water
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (Tepco) now estimates that tanks containing treated water at the Fukushima Daiichi NPP are likely to reach capacity around the autumn of...
Fukushima officials approve treated water release but seek to minimise “reputational damage”
Fukushima Prefecture and the town governments of Futaba and Okuma have given their approval for Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (Tepco) to construct the facilities to enable...
Japan approves release of Fukushima water into the sea
Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) has approved a plan to release treated water stored at the Fukushima Daiichi NPP into the ocean, the government has said. The water, used...
Japan’s Kishida wants nine nuclear units in operation by winter
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), told a news conference that he had asked Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) Koichi...
Tokyo court orders former Tepco officials to pay damages for Fukushima disaster
The Tokyo district court has ordered four former executives of Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) to pay JPY13,000 billion ($95bn) in damages to the operator of the destroyed...
Japan's top court clears government of liability for Fukushima disaster
Japan's highest court has dismissed claims that the government should pay damages in cases involving some 3,700 people seriously affected by the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster...
IAEA releases report water discharge at Fukushima Daiichi
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Task Force established to review Japan’s discharge of treated water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station have released a...
Jacobs designs robot to tackle Fukushima debris
US-based Jacobs has designed and built a robotic tool to obtain crucial information about the state of a damaged nuclear power reactor at Fukushima Daiichi in Japan. The remotely...
Jacobs selected by Tepco to support Fukushima clean-up
US-based Jacobs has been selected by Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) to support decommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi NPP damaged by the 2011 earthquake and Tsunami in Japan...
IAEA will monitor treated water discharge at Fukushima
The IAEA is committed to independently monitor the planned discharge of treated water into the sea at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant and will provide regular assessments to...
Japan’s nuclear regulator approves release of treated Fukushima water
Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) has endorsed a plan to discharge into the sea treated water stored at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi NPP. The plan, which is expected to start...
IAEA releases report on water discharge from Fukushima Daiichi
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Task Force, which is reviewing Japan’s policy to discharge treated water from the Fukushima Daiichi NPP against relevant international...
Some Fukushima evacuees allowed to return to their homes
The town of Tomioka in Japan’s Fukushima Prefecture has started a preparatory programme allowing displaced residents to stay overnight at their homes in an evacuation area set up in...
Fukushima simulant material to boost clean-up efforts
University of Sheffield researchers have developed a new simulation of the most dangerous radioactive fuel debris remaining in the nuclear reactors at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi...
International Task Force meets to review safety of Fukushima water release
A Task Force established by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to review the safety of a planned release of water now stored at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi NPP held its...
IAEA and Japan agree timeline for safety review of Fukushima water release
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Japan have agreed on an initial mission schedule and other arrangements for the implementation of the Agency’s multi-year review...
