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Japan is urged to share Fukushima Daiichi safety lessons Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders urged Japan to share safety lessons learned from the Fukushima Daiichi incident. « To ensure the safety of peaceful nuclear energy, we welcome economies w…

Today in the annals of head-scratching design provocation: Hilda Hellström, a recent graduate of the master’s product-design program at RCA, has fashioned a set of dishes from the contaminated earth around the Fukushima nuclear disaster site. Who wa…

Two prominent seismologists said on Tuesday that Japan is ignoring the safety lessons of last year’s Fukushima crisis and warned against restarting two reactors next month. Japan has approved the restart of the two reactors at the Kansai Electric Pow…

Via The New York Times: Japan Reactor Building is Tilting But Is Not a Risk, Operator Says. Excerpt: A heavily damaged reactor building at the tsunami-stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has a slight tilt, but the tilt does not pose…Source : H5N…

It was 15 months ago that the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant suffered three meltdowns and contaminated a broad circle of countryside and left hundreds of thousands of people without homes, jobs or both. But for all the damage and despair it wrought, the…

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A heavily damaged reactor building at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has a slight tilt, but the tilt does not pose a risk to the integrity of the building, according to the plant’s operator.Source : New York TimesExplore : Asia, Japan, World

TOKYO (Reuters) – Two prominent seismologists said on Tuesday that Japan is ignoring the safety lessons of last year’s Fukushima crisis and warned against restarting two reactors next month. Related Stories Bankrupt Irish tycoon Quinn found guilty, fac…

A heavily damaged reactor building at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has a slight tilt, but the tilt does not pose a risk to the integrity of the building, according to the plant’s operator.Source : New York TimesExplore : Asia, Japan, World

Fukushima has been decimated by radiation. But Fukushima City has less than 300,000 residents. And all of Fukushima prefecture has 2 million. On the other hand, greater Tokyo – the world’s largest megacity – has 35 million inhabitants.Source : Pa…

June 26 (Reuters) – Kansai Electric Power Co said on Tuesday it plans to restart the 1,180-megawatt No.3 unit at its Ohi plant on July 1, Japan’s first nuclear reactor to come back online since the Fukushima crisis.Source : Reuters UKExplore : Asia, J…

SOMA, Japan, June 25 (UPI) — Seafood from Fukushima prefecture was sold in two Japanese supermarkets Monday for the first time since Japan’s 2011 nuclear disaster. The octopus and shellfish was harvested Friday during trial fishing off Fukushima pr…

… after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami caused the nation’s worst-ever nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, run by Tokyo Electric Power Co. . Restarting the plants faced opposition from nearby residents, but expected power short…

The first seafood caught off Japan’s Fukushima coastline since last year’s nuclear disaster went on sale yesterday, but the offerings were limited to octopus and marine snails because of persisting fears about radiation.Source : The IndependentExplore …