May 29, 2024 (Mainichi Japan) TOKYO (Kyodo) The aging No. 3 and 4 reactors at the Takahama nuclear plant in central Japan were approved Wednesday by the nuclear regulator to continue operating for 20 more years, as the government maintains support of the technology's use in the resource-poor country's energy mix. The decision makes them…
If the mayor gives the green light, the Saga Prefecture town that hosts Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s four-reactor Genkai Nuclear Power Station will receive up to 2 billion yen ($12.9 million) in state subsidies for allowing the survey, Three local associations in the construction, restaurant and accommodation sectors submitted separate requests for the survey to…
January 27, 2024 (Mainichi Japan), https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20240127/p2a/00m/0na/003000c OKUMA, Fukushima Nearly 13 years since the triple-meltdown following the March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, it is still unclear when decommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station's reactors will be completed. Operator Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) Holdings Inc. showed the power plant to Mainichi…
November 23, 2017 (Mainichi Japan) Sixty holes violating the Building Standards Act were found recently in firewalls at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant in Niigata Prefecture, in addition to two similar holes found in July this year, plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) announced Nov. 22. Of the 60 holes, 49 date back to the…
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