Japan Atomic Power Company will pull the plug or Tsuruga Nuclear Power Plant in the same prefecture. After the accident at Fukushima Daiichi four years ago the government limited Nuclear Reactors to a 40year lifespan unless they meet tougher safety standards. Officials at the ministry of economy, trade and industry have been urging operators to decide what to do with reactors that have already passed that age. The reactors have a relatively small output and the Power Company executives have suggested they cant justify the expense of upgrading to meet the new safety requirements. Two other utilities, chugoku electric Power Company and kyushu electric Power Company, plan to decide on wednesday to scrap two of their dated reactors. Currently all of japans commercial Nuclear Reactors remain offline. Officials in vanuatu are counting the cost of a powerful cyclone that hit last week. Cyclone pam tore through the South Pacific islands on friday and saturday. U. N. Officials say 24 people wer
Power plant in fuguekui prefecture. Japan Atomic Power Company will pull the plug or Tsuruga Nuclear Power Plant in the same prefecture. After the accident at Fukushima Daiichi four years ago the government limited Nuclear Reactors to a 40year lifespan unless they meet tougher safety standards. Officials at the ministry of economy, trade and industry have been urging operators to decide what to do with reactors that have already passed that age. The reactors have a relatively small output and the Power Company executives have suggested they cant justify the expense of upgrading to meet the new safety requirements. Two other utilities, chugoku electric Power Company and kyushu electric Power Company, plan to decide on wednesday to scrap two of their dated reactors. Currently all of japans commercial Nuclear Reactors remain offline. Officials in vanuatu are counting the cost of a powerful cyclone that hit last week. Cyclone pam tore through the South Pacific islands on friday and saturda
Newsline. Experts with Japans Nuclear Regulation Authority are getting closer to determining whether the only operating Nuclear Plant in the country can keep generating power. They carried out a second inspection at the ohi plant to figure out if an active fault runs beneath the facility. The five member team returned to ohi to inspect a trench the nra had ordered Plant Operator Kansai Electric to double the length of the trench after the first onsite inspection in november. Crews dug it to 100 meters. Representatives of the Nuclear Watchdog say they will ask Kansai Electric to shut down the plant if inspectors conclude an active fault runs underneath it. Government guidelines ban the construction of key Nuclear Facilities on active faults. Kansai electric executives insist land slips and not a fault caused the fissures below ohi. After fridays inspection, the shik zach shimazaki said they will look for answers. Translator well carefully analyze what we saw today. It wont be an easy ta
Welcome to newsline. Its tuesday, december 11th. Im Catherine Kobayashi in tokyo. The president tried to calm public anger by giving him wide powers. He rejected the call to scrap the referendum on saturday. They called for large scale demonstration on tuesday. Morsis islamist supporters have been besieging a tv station critical of the president. They continue their protest sitin outside the building. Observers in cairo say pro and antimorsi demonstrators are likely to clash once again. Concerns are rising the military may interfere in the event of any confrontation. Shouting slogans and holding up signs. Kyoto professor Shinya Yamanaka has collected his medal for this years nobel prize in physiology and medicine. For their work with stem cells that can be programmed to become cells in a human body. Shefed his medal in a ceremony hall. Yamanaka was introduced as someone who has provided the world with an invaluable method of developing therapies. Swedens King Carl Gustov xvi awarded hi
Representatives of the Nuclear Watchdog say they will ask Kansai Electric to shut down the plant if inspectors conclude an active fault runs underneath it. Government guidelines ban the construction of key Nuclear Facilities on active faults. Kansai electric executives insist land slips and not a fault caused the fissures below ohi. After fridays inspection, the shik zach shimazaki said they will look for answers. Translator well carefully analyze what we saw today. It wont be an easy task determining what it is. The team of experts will be back at the plant on saturday. Then they will meet early next year to produce an assessment based on the results of their inspection. Nra experts are checking the ground beneath a number of power plants in this earthquakeprone country. Their reports on some of them could keep the facilities off line for the future or forever. Nra teams say they found one active fault under tsuruga nuclear compound. The fault runs along side reactors one and two. And