Certainly the matter was severely tested with three reactors of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan in March 2011. Cooling was lost about an hour after a shutdown, and it proved impossible to restore it sufficiently to prevent severe damage to the fuel. The reactors, dating from 1971-75, were written off.
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After months of controversy and anticipation, Japan is set to begin releasing treated radioactive wastewater from its Fukushima nuclear plant later this week despite …
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On 11 March 2011 at 14:46 local time (05:46 GMT) the earthquake - known as the Great East Japan Earthquake, or the 2011 Tohoku earthquake - struck east of the city of Sendai, 97km north of the ...
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inated water from citizens in Fukushima, commercial bodies such as Japan's national federation of fisheries cooperatives, JF Zengyoren,3 the majority of municipal assemblies in Fukushima Prefecture, and wider Japanese society. There has also been opposition from Japan's nearest geographical neighbours, especially the Republic of Korea. However,
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China announced Thursday it was banning all seafood from Japan in response to Tokyo's decision to begin releasing treated radioactive wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear plant, dramatically ...
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Nuclear technology to support a healthy society. Display all. NEWS RELEASE. 21 Jul, 2023. Nawah Energy Company Signs Memorandum of Understanding …
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24 August 2023 Climate and Environment. Japan has begun discharging treated radioactive wastewater from the disabled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station into the Pacific Ocean, 12 years on from the major meltdown there, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) confirmed on Thursday. Experts from the UN nuclear watchdog were present to ...
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A Fusion of the future- meeting the challenge of ever increasing demand for energy whilst reducing CO2 emissions - (part 1 of 2) Superconducting magnets for Silicon Single-Crystal Pullers. Creating the Dream Energy Source of the Future- The Reality of the Megastructures and Millimeters of Fusion Power.
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Japan has begun its controversial discharge of treated waste water from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean, sparking protests in the region and retaliation from Beijing.
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The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is seen in Namie, Fukushima prefecture, northern Japan, Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023. The operator of the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says it has begun releasing its first batch of treated radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean — a controversial step, but a milestone for …
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Fukushima accident, also called Fukushima nuclear accident or Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident, Nuclear accident at the Tokyo Electric and Power Co. (TEPCO) Fukushima Daiichi ("Number One") plant in northern Japan, which became the second worst nuclear accident in the history of nuclear power generation.Tsunami waves …
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Fukushima nuclear disaster. On March 11, 2011, the largest earthquake ever recorded in Japan causes massive devastation, and the ensuing tsunami decimates the Tōhoku region of northeastern Honshu ...
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The government and Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc. have developed a mid-and-long-term roadmap towards the decommissioning of TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi …
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In October 2012—the year after the Great East Japan Earthquake and Fukushima disaster—the US engineering giant Shaw Group, which held a 20% stake in Westinghouse, informed Toshiba that …
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Mari Yamaguchi. Associated Press. OKUMA, Japan — The operator of the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says it has begun releasing its …
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In this photo released by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), workers prepare to operate a remote-controlled "cleaning" robot at Unit 2 of Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town ...
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The tsunami knocked out the plant's backup electricity supply, leading to meltdowns in three of its reactors, in the world's worst nuclear accident since Chornobyl 25 years earlier.. Much has ...
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The National Diet of Japan Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission (NAIIC) blamed the Japanese government for its slow and unresponsive management of the crisis, and called ...
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After an earthquake and tsunami resulted in an accident at a nuclear power plant in Fukushima in March 2011, NOAA Fisheries tracked radiation levels in U.S West Coast tuna in order to better understand migration. In March 2011, in association with the Great Tohoku earthquake and resultant tsunami, there was an accident at the Fukushima …
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Another shocking tragedy that affected so many of us was the tsunami hitting the nuclear power station on Fukushima's coast. The images from these events are forever seared into memory. It's been a decade since the disaster took place. However, the trauma is still fresh, especially for the survivors who physically experienced the catastrophe.
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The water Japan plans to discharge into the Pacific was mainly used to cool damaged reactors at the Fukushima power plant, which was destroyed in 2011 by an earthquake and tsunami.
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The Fukushima Daiichi meltdown was the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl in 1986, which was followed by a spike in cancer cases in the region. In Japan a health survey conducted by the ...
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Robots come to the rescue after Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster 14:23. More than 10 years have passed since a monster earthquake and tsunami struck northeast Japan and triggered what became ...
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Japan will soon begin releasing treated radioactive water into the ocean following approval from the United Nations' nuclear watchdog for a controversial plan that comes 12 years after the ...
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By August 2020, 2308 disaster-related deaths, that were not due to radiation-induced damage or to the earthquake or to the tsunami, had been identified by the Japanese authorities. About 90% of deaths were for persons above 66 years of age. Of these, about 70% occurred within the first three months of the evacuations.
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The robot, 60 centimetres (24 inches) long, is made by Toshiba and equipped with two cameras and sensors to gauge radiation levels and temperatures. "Scorpion's mission is to take images of the ...
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Toshiba Group received a certificate of appreciation from the Prime Minister of Japan for works carried out with subcontractors at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. The works are "Reducing radiation doses on the reactor building's operating floor*1 of the Unit3 for the preparation of the removal of fuel from the spent fuel pool."
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Katsumasa Okawa, owner of a fish store and a restaurant, cuts flounder meat as he prepares at his restaurant in Iwaki, northeastern Japan, Thursday, July 13, 2023. Okawa said those tanks containing contaminated water at the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant bothers him more than the treated water release into the sea.
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More than 10 years after a powerful earthquake and tsunami caused a massive nuclear meltdown in the Daiichi Power Plant, Lesley Stahl reports on the …
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In 2011, Endo, a 61-year-old retired engineer at , the Tokyo-based mega-corporation, began designing a robot to aid in decommissioning the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, the site of a ...
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A massive March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami destroyed the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant's cooling systems, causing three reactors to melt and releasing large amounts of radiation. The tanks storing the water used since the accident to cool the reactor cores will reach their capacity in early 2024.
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9 Mar 2021. The effects of the Fukushima nuclear accident will be felt for decades into the future, say local and international activists on the 10th anniversary of Japan's triple disaster of ...
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Tokyo CNN —. More than 11 years after Japan's worst nuclear disaster, the government lifted evacuation orders in a section of a village previously deemed off limits on Sunday, allowing ...
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On February 21, 2021, a Tokyo Electric Power Company employee measures radiation outside its Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, devastated a decade ago by an earthquake. Japan's planned ...
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CNN —. Japan will soon begin releasing treated radioactive water into the ocean following approval from the United Nations' nuclear watchdog for a controversial plan that comes 12 years after ...
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At the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, hydrogen gases exploded, spreading radiation into communities more than 25 miles away. Three of the plant's six …
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