
Japan to step in for Fukushima cleanup?
The Japanese government has signaled it plans to take a more direct role in the clean-up effort at the Fukushima nuclear power plant amid rising concerns radioactive water is leaking into the Pacific Ocean.
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The Japanese government has signaled it plans to take a more direct role in the clean-up effort at the Fukushima nuclear power plant amid rising concerns radioactive water is leaking into the Pacific Ocean.
Aug 8, 2013

Japan's prime minister Wednesday said Tokyo would get more involved in cleaning up the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, as he described as "urgent" a battle to stop radioactive water from leaking into the ocean.
Aug 7, 2013

French nuclear power group Areva has resumed full production of uranium at the Somair site at Arlit in northern Niger which was attacked in May, the company said on Wednesday.
Aug 7, 2013

The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has given its first public estimate of the size of the leakage of radioactive tritium into the Pacific Ocean since the disaster.
Aug 4, 2013

Taiwanese lawmakers hurled water and wrestled each other to the floor of the island's parliament Friday in a brawl which broke out during a debate on the fate of a controversial nuclear plant.
Aug 2, 2013

The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant said Wednesday it swung to a net profit in the quarter to June after a government bailout and electricity rate hike.
Jul 31, 2013

Japan's nuclear watchdog will beef up monitoring at the crippled Fukushima power plant, an agency official said Tuesday, after leaks of radioactive groundwater into the ocean sparked heavy criticism of the site's operator.
Jul 30, 2013

A subsidiary of Russian state nuclear energy company Rosatom said Tuesday it signed an agreement to build floating nuclear power plants with China.
Jul 29, 2013

A rejected environmental impact analysis report could delay construction of Turkey's first nuclear power plant, the company behind the project says.
Jul 29, 2013

Westinghouse Electric Company has announced that it has contracted with Vitkovice Power Engineering a.s., a member of the Czech Vitkovice Machinery Group, to…
Jul 26, 2013

Foreign nuclear experts on Friday blasted the operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, with one saying its lack of transparency over…
Jul 26, 2013

In the aftermath of Japan's earthquake and tsunami in March 2011, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant was initially driven into shutdown by the magnitude 9.0 quake; its emergency generators then failed because they were inundated by the tsunami.
Jul 26, 2013

The clean-up after the Fukushima nuclear disaster could cost five times more than estimated, figures have revealed, as Tokyo Electric Power said on Wednesday that steam had been seen again in a reactor building.
Jul 24, 2013

Argentina has upset landlocked Paraguay with its plan to build a nuclear power reactor near their common border without formal consultations.
Jul 23, 2013

The operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant on Monday admitted for the first time that radioactive groundwater has leaked out to sea, fuelling fears of ocean contamination.
Jul 22, 2013

Australia's resources and energy minister has called on the country's uranium sector to increase development to meet growing global demand.
Jul 22, 2013