Heavy rains overflow barriers surrounding Fukushima water tanks
via RT / October 20, 2013 / Water has overflowed at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) is attempting to discern the quality of the water and possible...
View ArticleJgov asking Fukushima towns to host waste storage facilities
via GlobalPost / December 10, 2013 / Two Japanese ministers will visit Fukushima on Saturday to seek consent from local authorities for the construction of facilities to store radioactive and other...
View ArticleJGov asks Fukushima prefecture to accept intermediate storage facilities
via Asahi Shimbun / December 15, 2013 / Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara (pictured below) and reconstruction minister Takumi Nemoto on Dec. 14 asked the Fukushima governor and mayors of three...
View ArticleJapan to set nuclear waste disposal policy
via Asia-Pacific Perspective / January 4, 2013 / The Japanese government plans to revise a basic policy for disposing of nuclear waste so that it can play a more active role in selecting disposal...
View ArticleTEPCO to siphon off radioactive water from tunnels under Fukushima plant
via Russia Today / January 6, 2014 / The operator of Japan’s crippled Fukushima Daiichi atomic plant plans to start cleaning underground tunnels believed to be part of the sources of radioactive...
View ArticleJgov to step up efforts to find disposal site for radioactive #Fukushima waste
via Japan Times / January 21, 2014 / The government plans to step up its efforts to select the final disposal site for high-level radioactive waste from nuclear power generation, after having failed to...
View ArticleFukushima governor to ask permission to store radioactive soil in two towns
via Japan Daily Press / February 6, 2014 / As one possible solution to the ongoing problem of disposing contaminated waste as a result of the nuclear meltdown in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant,...
View ArticleCracks found in floor near storage tanks
via Asahi Shimbun / February 12, 2104 / Two cracks were discovered in a concrete floor near radioactive water storage tanks on the grounds of the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, the plant...
View ArticleNuclear waste disposal facility locations difficult to locate in Japan
via Enformable.com / February 25, 2014 / This week NUMO submitted a proposal to a government-commissioned panel of experts which proposed new methods for choosing locations for burying radioactive...
View ArticleEnvironment Minister visits Fukushima in latest apology over cash-for-storage...
via The Japan Times / June 23, 2014 / Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara on Monday apologized again for making a remark suggesting that the issue of where to store contaminated soil from the...
View ArticleJapanese Government Offers Fukushima Pref. ¥230b To Host Storage Facilities
via Japan Times / July 30, 2014 / The administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has offered to pay the Fukushima Prefectural Government ¥230 billion over the next 30 years if the prefecture hosts...
View ArticlePersistent Nuclear Waste From Fukushima Inhibits Restarts
By Clint Richards / The Diplomat / July 30, 2014 / After months of attempting to negotiate with local residents in Fukushima, the Japanese government has abandoned its attempt to purchase land to store...
View ArticleJapanese Government To Provide $3 bil. For Fukushima
via NHK World / August 8, 2014 / The Japanese government plans to provide a subsidy of about three billion dollars over 30 years for regional development in Fukushima Prefecture. The grant is to be...
View ArticleFukushima Towns Look Set To Bite On New Offer Of More Money For Storage...
via Asahi Shimbun / August 9th, 2014 / The central government has offered to double the amount of grants to be paid if local municipalities in Fukushima Prefecture accept the construction of temporary...
View ArticleFukushima Pref. Govt Accepts ‘Temporary’ Radioactive Waste Storage
via channelnewsasia.com / September 1, 2014 / The governor of disaster-struck Fukushima agreed on Monday (Sep 1) to accept the “temporary” storage of nuclear waste from the Japanese accident, paving...
View ArticleRadioactive Soil Stored At Fukushima Schools Not Covered By Recent Disposal...
via japantimes.com / October 29, 2014 / Radioactive soil currently stored at schools in Fukushima Prefecture is not supposed to be transferred to radioactive waste storage facilities planned to be...
View ArticleStorage Site For Radioactive Debris Near Fukushima No. 1 Is One Step Closer
via japantimes.com / November 4, 2014 / The Lower House on Tuesday approved a bill for the construction of temporary storage facilities for radioactive waste on land near the crippled Fukushima No. 1...
View ArticleFukushima May Accept Delivery Of Radioactive Waste
via japantimes.co.jp / February 21, 2015 / The Fukushima prefectural government may in the coming week approve the delivery of radioactive soil and other waste at interim storage facilities that are...
View ArticleTransfer of Fukushima Clean-Up Waste Gets Go-Ahead
via world-nuclear-news.org / March 3, 2015 / The transfer of radioactive soil and waste generated from clean-up work following the March 2011 accident at the Fukushima Daiichi plant to a provisional...
View ArticleHalf of Land Owners For Radioactive Soil Storage Are Unknown
via Japan Times / April 5, 2015 / The central government has not been able to identify half of some 2,400 owners of land in Fukushima Prefecture where it plans to build storage facilities for...
View ArticleIssues of Incineration Disposal of Agricultural and Forestry Radioactive...
by Toshikazu Fujiwara / CNIC.jp / June 2, 2015 / The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station accident released radioactive substances across a wide area of the environment. Currently, not only...
View ArticleCurrent State of Post-Accident Operations at Fukushima NPP – July to December...
via Citizens Nuclear Information Center / February 2, 2016 / State of the Plant Many of the measuring instruments installed in the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (FDNPS) measuring system...
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