Topic: Tokyo Electric Power

Japanese nuclear plant workers for the first time have removed a small amount of melted fuel from one of the Fukushima Daiichi plant reactors damaged in the devastating 2011 earthquake and tsunami, officials said on Thur

Tokyo Electric Power Company Thursday stopped an effort to remove nuclear fuel debris from a reactor meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear power plant.

Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority announced on Wednesday that would lift an operational ban on the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant in Niigata Prefecture after demanding counterterrorism measures.

A team from the International Atomic Energy Agency visiting the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant on Friday concluded an onsite safety inspection of the release of treated water from the plant into the ocean.

Chinese seafood imports from Japan tumbled more than two-thirds in August after electric officials in Tokyo announced the release of treated from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant.

Fish samples from the ocean around Japan's Fukushima nuclear complex are registering normal and do not contain radioactive contaminants after the discharge of treated wastewater from the plant, officials said Saturday.

A day after the Fukushima nuclear power plant began putting treated water into the ocean, Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings said Friday no tritium was detectable in seawater samples.

Japan announced Tuesday that it will begin its gradual release of treated radioactive wastewater collected from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant into the ocean on Thursday as it seeks to continue decommission.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Sunday urged that the Fukushima nuclear power plant be decommissioned in a safe manner amid lingering concerns over radioactive wastewater.

A South Korean government task force said Friday that Japan's plan to release radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant meets international safety standards, echoing an assessment by the IAEA.