The Courier-Mail
| 11 months ago
A nuclear reactor has started supplying power in western Japan, becoming the nation's first reactor to restart operation since May. Thursday as reactor 3 at the Oi Nuclear Power Plant on the Sea of Japan coast was connected to the generator and...
Channel NewsAsia
| 11 months ago
A Japanese parliament probe into the nuclear disaster at Fukushima is expected to say the then prime minister fanned chaos in the opening days of the crisis when it publishes its final report Thursday...In interim statements, the commission has...
Japan Times
| 11 months ago
For the first time since his appointment last month, Tokyo Electric Power Co. Chairman Kazuhiko Shimokobe conducted an on-the-spot inspection Wednesday of the Fukushima No...Shimokobe told employees at the plant that Tepco, which also operates the...
Japan Times
| 11 months ago
A ceremony Tuesday marked the 100th anniversary of the landmark Tsutenkaku Tower in Naniwa Ward, Osaka. The eve featured a statue of a Billiken god that sat on the 103-meter tower's observatory deck for about 30 years until May. The tower and statue...
Japan Times
| 11 months ago
Fukui nuclear plants Kyodo, Jiji The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency has stressed the need for additional studies on fault fracture zones or soft earth layers running under three nuclear power plants in Fukui Prefecture...Kansai Electric Power...
Japan Times
| 11 months ago
Kansai Electric Power Co. has decided to float bonds worth ¥20 billion to ¥30 billion later this month, the first debt issuance by a utility since the Fukushima nuclear crisis started in March 2011, sources said Wednesday. The utility believes it is...
