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Technology to look inside Fukushima reactors faces challenge

April 4, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Yuri Kageyama AP Business Writer YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) — The cutting-edge technology was billed as a way to decipher where exactly the morass of nuclear fuel might sit at the bottom of reactors in the Japanese power plant that went into multiple meltdowns four years ago. But what went wrong, even in a simple […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2015, Adrian Hillier, David Ireland, Follow Yuri Kageyama, Fukushima Dai-ichi, Fukushima Daiichi, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Tadashi Yotsuyanagi, Tokyo Electric Power Co, Toshiba Corp, Vol 34 No 15 | April 4 - April 10, Westinghouse Electric Co, YOKOHAMA, japan, technology

Life of Fukushima nuke worker recorded in comic-book style

March 29, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Yuri Kageyama Associated Press TOKYO (AP) – First off, no one who works at Japan’s wrecked nuclear power plant calls it Fukushima Dai-ichi, comic-book artist Kazuto Tatsuta says in his book about his time on the job. It’s ichi efu, or 1F.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2011, 2014, Associated Press, Fukushima Dai-ichi, Kazuto Tatsuta, Kodansha Ltd, Koichiro Shiraki, Osamu Tezuka, Spirited Away, TEPCO, Tokyo Electric Power Co, Vol 33 No 14 | March 29 - April 4, japan

S Korea bans Japanese fish due to radiation fears

September 15, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Eun-Young Jeong The Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea announced Sept. 6 that it was banning all fish imports from along Japan’s northeastern coast because of what officials called growing public worry over radioactive water leaking into the Pacific Ocean near the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2012, 2013, Energy Minister Toshimitsu Motegi Sept, Fukushima Dai-ichi, Hiroshi Kishi, Hisashi Hiroyama, Japan Fisheries Cooperatives, Japanese Fisheries Agency, Pacific Ocean, SEOUL, South Korea Vice Fisheries Minister Son Jae-hak, TEPCO, Tokyo Electric Power Co, Vol 32 No 38 | September 14 - September 20, Yoshihide Suga

Radioactive groundwater at Fukushima nears Pacific

August 31, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Mari Yamaguchi The Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Deep beneath Fukushima’s crippled nuclear power station, a massive underground reservoir of contaminated water that began spilling from the plant’s reactors after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami has been creeping slowly toward the Pacific.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2011, 2013, 2015, Atsunao Marui, Fukushima Dai-ichi, Iwaki City, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Ken Buesseler, Masakazu Yabuki, Masayuki Ono, Nuclear Regulation Authority Chairman Shunichi Tanaka, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Shinji Kinjo, TEPCO, Tokyo Electric Power Co, Toyoshi Fuketa, Vol 32 No 36 | August 31 - September 6, Yoshimi Hitosugi, Zengo Aizawa

Japan set to restart reactors after nuclear crisis

July 13, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Mari Yamaguchi The Associated Press TOKYO, Japan (AP) — Japan is moving a step closer to restarting nuclear reactors as utilities are set to ask for safety inspections at their idled reactors, the clearest sign of Japan’s return to nuclear energy nearly two and a half years after the Fukushima disaster.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2011, 2013, Fukushima Dai-ichi, Hokkaido Electric Power Co, Katsuhiko Kawai, Kyushu Electric Power Co, Nuclear Regulation Authority, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Shota Okada, Tokyo Electric Power Co, Vol 32 No 29 | July 13 - July 19, japan

Japan recalls devastation of tsunami and earthquake one year later

March 17, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Miki Toda and Malcolm Foster The Associated Press RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan (AP) — For 70-year-old Toshiko Murakami, memories of the terrifying earthquake and tsunami that destroyed much of her seaside town and swept away her sister brought fresh tears exactly a year after the disaster.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2011, 2012, Across Japan, Emperor Akihito, Fukushima Dai-ichi, Naomi Fujino, National Theater, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, RIKUZENTAKATA, TV, Tokyo Electric Power Co, Vol 31 No 12 | March 17 - March 23, attention

Japan rattled by aftershock one month after tsunami

April 14, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

SENDAI, Japan (AP) — A strong earthquake rattled Japan’s northeast on Monday just hours after people bowed their heads and wept in ceremonies

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2011, Atsushi Yanai, China, Eric Talmadge, Iwate Gov, Mari Yamaguchi, Marina Seito, Masataka Shimizu, Prime Minister Naoto Kan, Russia, SENDAI, Takuya Tasso, Tokyo Electric Power Co, United Kingdom, Vol 30 No 16 | April 16 - April 22, Yuhei Sato, Yuri Kageyama, japan, letter

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