Operator of Japan’s tsunami-flooded nuclear power complex said on Wednesday surging radiation and elevated temperatures were worrisome signs.
Workers forced to leave their homes and jobs because of radiation fears are demanding compensation from Japan’s tsunami-flooded nuclear plant.
Japan raised the severity of its nuclear crisis to the highest level on Tuesday, putting it on a par with the world’s worst nuclear disaster.
Engineers at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi plant north of Tokyo said on Sunday they were no closer to restoring the plant’s cooling system.
Japanese nuclear power plant operator Tepco expects to stop pumping radioactive water into the ocean on Monday, days later than planned.
Japan will pump radioactive water into the sea from a crippled nuclear plant until Sunday, a day later than previously planned.
A powerful earthquake on Thursday hit the same area of Japan ravaged by disaster a month ago, prompting a tsunami alert that was later cancelled.
A Greenpeace investigation has discovered contamination in crops on the outskirts of MinamisÅma, Fukushima, in the wake of the nuclear crisis.
Fishermen who lost their homes and boats in Japan’s tsunami now fear radioactive water could cost them their livelihoods.
Analysts suggest power blackouts will ultimately cause the biggest economic damage to Japan, a vital player in the global manufacturing supply chain.
Japan’s government on Monday told the operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant to move quickly to stop radiation seeping into the ocean.
Officials grappling to end the world’s worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl tried to seal a crack that has been leaking radiation into the sea.
Japan’s government is reportedly ready to consider nationalising the operator of the crippled power plant.
Japan’s prime minister made his first visit to the country’s tsunami-devastated region on Saturday and entered a nuclear exclusion zone.
Fukushima plant’s radioactive core melts through vessel but there’s ‘no danger of Chernobyl-style catastrophe’.
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Japan’s nuclear and humanitarian crisis stretched to three weeks on Friday with radiation still leaking from a crippled nuclear power plant.
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Plutonium in soil at the Fukushima nuclear complex heightened alarm on Tuesday over the battle to contain the world’s worst atomic crisis in 25 years.
The United Nations atomic energy chief called a Vienna summit to tackle mounting concerns about nuclear safety.
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The high level of radiation in water flooding the basement at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi plant is probably due to a partial melting of fuel rods.
Workers were withdrawn from a building at Japan’s earthquake-wrecked nuclear plant on Sunday after potentially lethal levels of radiation were found.
Japanese authorities evacuated workers on Sunday from a reactor building they were working in after high doses of radiation were detected.
Radiation levels have soared in seawater near Japan’s crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, officials said on Saturday.
Japanese engineers were frantically attempting on Saturday to pump out puddles of radioactive water at the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
The operator of a Japanese nuclear plant on Friday reported possible damage to a reactor vessel, casting doubts over control of a radiation leak.
The operation to cool the reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has suffered a setback.
The power plant at the centre of the biggest civilian nuclear crisis in Japan’s history contained far more spent fuel rods than it was designed to.
Engineers had to pull out of some parts of Japan’s crippled nuclear plant on Thursday when three workers were exposed to high contamination.