Japan and France to promote fast breeder reactors
via Enformable.com / May 5, 2014 /Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and French President Francois Hollande met during a summit meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris on Monday and agreed that the two...
View ArticleTEPCO public trust remains low as Japan shuffles nuclear watchdog
via Channel News Asia / May 28, 2014 / Japan’s government has announced it will replace two of its five members on the Nuclear Regulation Authority which determines if a nuclear plant is ready for a...
View ArticleNuke Watchdog Gives Okay To Fukushima Ice Wall
from Straight.com / May 29, 2014 / Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) has given the go-ahead to the operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant to build a so-called ice wall around...
View ArticleJapan’s Nuclear Regulator To Review Exposure Limit
via NHK World / July 10, 2014 / Japan’s nuclear regulator says it will consider revisions to a law for protecting nuclear plant workers’ health in emergencies. The Nuclear Regulation Authority...
View ArticleNuclear Watchdog May Raise Radiation Exposure Limit For Emergencies
from Japan Times / July 30, 2014 / The Nuclear Regulation Authority said Wednesday it is considering raising the maximum radiation exposure limit for nuclear workers in emergencies, from the current...
View ArticleFishers Submit Request Over TEPCO Wastewater Plan
via NHK World / January 27, 2015 / Japanese fishers have demanded that the operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant gain their understanding before releasing decontaminated water into...
View ArticleNRA to Approve Takahama Safety Measures
via NHK World / February 3, 2015 / Japan’s nuclear regulator is set to compile next week its final assessment on 2 reactors at the Takahama power plant (pictured) in Fukui Prefecture, central Japan....
View ArticleFlashback: Understanding the Power Structures Behind the 3.11 Fukushima...
from japan-focus.org / December 26, 2011 / By Nishioka Nobuyuki I: Fukushima and Okinawa At midnight on April 22, 2011, the Japanese government designated the zone within a 20-kilometer radius of the...
View ArticleJapanese Court Forbids Restart of Takahama Nuclear Plant
via digitaljournal.com / April 15, 2015 / Pro-nuclear proponents suffered a serious setback today after Fukui District Court’s three-judge panel handed down a ruling forbidding the restart of two of...
View ArticleNRA & TEPCO Agree to Start Frozen Underground Wall at Fukushima No. 1 in Stages
via The Japan Times / February 15, 2016 / The Nuclear Regulation Authority and Tokyo Electric Power Co. have broadly agreed to start operating the frozen underground wall at the Fukushima No. 1...
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