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Tokyo Electric Power Co. said the radioactive contamination in the water that leaked into the ocean from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant was more than 20,000 times the allowable annual limits.
On Wednesday, April 20, 2011, the IAEA provided the following information on the current status of nuclear safety in Japan
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Tokyo Electric Power Co. says there is somewhat less radioactive water in the tunnel linked to one of the reactors, amounting to 210 metric tons of water, according to broadcaster NHK.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. plans to move the radioactive water from one of the reactor buildings at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and treat it on site, the company said.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. unveiled its plan for dealing with the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.
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Following is an update released by UN atomic watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on the Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
Overall, the situation at the Fukushima Daiichi plant remains very serious but there are early signs of recovery in some functions such as electrical power and instrumentation.
Japan's fragile post-disaster political truce unraveled on Thursday as the head of the main opposition party called on unpopular Prime Minister Naoto Kan to quit over his handling of the country's natural calamities and a nuclear crisis.
A byproduct of the paper industry and crab shells may soon be used to take radioactive contaminants out of water.
The aftershocks of the Tohoku earthquake that rocked Japan Thursday night have caused spills of radioactive water and power losses at no less than three different nuclear facilities.
Dead dolphins are washed up on the Gulf Coast in record numbers and the toll has breached 400 in just one year, even as Federal authorities are trying to put a lid on actual numbers and the reasons for unusual deaths.
Radiation levels inside the Onagawa nuclear plant in the Miyagi prefecture, north-east of Japan, rose slightly as water spilled out of spent fuel pools after a strong 7.1-magnitude aftershock hit the region on Thursday night. But the company that runs the plant said there was no rise in radiation levels outside the plant.
UN atomic watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency has released the following update on the status of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
The International Atomic Energy Agency said on Wednesday the leak of highly contaminated water from the cable storage pit located next to the Unit 2 inlet point at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has stopped.
Sir Richard Branson, chief executive of the Virgin media empire, has announced plans to send five vessels to the deepest parts of the ocean - a feat that has never been done before.
Here is the latest IAEA update on nuclear crisis at Fukushima plant
Tokyo Electric Power Company says it is releasing radioactive water into the ocean so as to leave space in the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant for water that is more contaminated.
Even as Tokyo Electric Power Company acknowledged that it will decommission four of the six nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, there is still the problem of a massive cleanup.
The International Atomic Energy Agency says it has measured levels of radiation in a small village northwest of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant high enough that it would recommend evacuation.
