Fukushima

IAEA suggests Japanese government to amend nuclear safety law

In an inspection to the Japanese regulatory body for nuclear safety, the International Atomic Energy...

Jan 25, 2016 12:44 AM EST

Embattled Toshiba Incurs Loss Yet Again: Management Sells Businesses and Sheds Jobs

Toshiba is retrenching thousands of employees and selling some of their businesses after incurring l...

Dec 22, 2015 05:09 AM EST

Exit now, pay later: Germany's rushed farewell to nuclear power

When Chancellor Angela Merkel called up the boss of Germany's biggest power producer RWE two days af...

Nov 02, 2015 06:37 AM EST

Japan's nuclear regulator says no repeat of Fukushima under new safety rules - media

Japan's nuclear regulator said an accident on the scale of the 2011 Fukushima disaster would not occ...

Aug 08, 2015 07:55 AM EDT

Japan approves increase in Fukushima compensation to $57 billion

Japan on Tuesday approved an increase in compensation payments for the Fukushima crisis to 7.07 tril...

Jul 28, 2015 08:38 AM EDT

Japan takes South Korea to WTO over Fukushima-related food import restrictions

Japan launched a trade complaint at the World Trade Organization on Thursday to challenge South Kore...

May 21, 2015 09:54 AM EDT

Japanese man arrested for landing drone on PM's office in nuclear protest

A Japanese man has been arrested for landing a drone on the prime minister's office with a minuscule...

Apr 25, 2015 08:26 AM EDT

Japan court halts restart of two reactors in blow to nuclear sector

A Japanese court on Tuesday issued an injunction to prevent the restart of two reactors citing safet...

Apr 14, 2015 09:26 AM EDT

Japan nuclear regulator 'very close' to end of review: commissioner

Japan's atomic regulator is "very close" to finishing its review of two reactors in southern Japan t...

Apr 10, 2015 11:21 AM EDT

Radiation from Fukushima disaster newly detected off Canada's coast

Radiation from Japan's 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster has for the first time been detected along a ...

Apr 07, 2015 07:39 AM EDT

Japanese man arrested for sending boy to help Fukushima clean-up

Japanese police arrested a businessman on Wednesday for sending a 15-year-old boy to help clean up r...

Feb 18, 2015 07:44 AM EST

Prosecutors won't indict former Tepco executives over Fukushima disaster: media

Japanese prosecutors will likely decide again not to indict three former Tokyo Electric Power Co exe...

Dec 26, 2014 04:26 AM EST

Seoul prosecutors investigate data leak at nuclear plant operator

Seoul prosecutors have launched an investigation of a leak of non-critical data at South Korea's nuc...

Dec 21, 2014 03:45 AM EST

Fukushima workers still in murky labor contracts: Tepco survey

The number of workers at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant on false contracts has increased in the las...

Nov 28, 2014 01:51 AM EST

Japanese PM Abe's public support slumps in wake of resignations: Yomiuri poll

Public approval of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government slumped after the resignation of two high-...

Oct 26, 2014 05:27 AM EDT

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