Genkai Mayor decides to accept nuclear waste site survey
Genkai, Saga Pref. – Mayor Shintaro Wakiyama of Genkai, Saga Prefecture, said Friday that the town will accept a so-called literature survey to determine whether it is suitable to host …
Genkai, Saga Pref. – Mayor Shintaro Wakiyama of Genkai, Saga Prefecture, said Friday that the town will accept a so-called literature survey to determine whether it is suitable to host …
Kaminoseki, Yamaguchi Pref. – Chugoku Electric Power started a drilling survey Tuesday in the town of Kaminoseki in Yamaguchi Prefecture for the possible construction of an interim storage facility for …
Atomic power’s potential as a clean-energy source forestalling climate change is increasingly at risk, with new data suggesting nuclear growth could be threatened by spreading geopolitical instability and war. While …
Industry minister Ken Saito has asked the mayor of the town of Genkai in Saga Prefecture to accept a so-called literature survey, as part of the process for selecting a …
Okuma, Fukushima Pref. – Former Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga visited the disaster-crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant on Monday to inspect progress on the release of tritium-containing treated water …
Fukui – Fukui District Court on Friday rejected petitions to suspend aging nuclear reactors at two Kansai Electric Power (Kepco) plants in Fukui Prefecture. The petitions were filed by local …
Niigata – A government energy affairs official sought understanding Thursday from Niigata Gov. Hideyo Hanazumi about restarting Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings’ Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant in central Japan. Yoshifumi Murase, …
Osaka – A Japanese court on Friday decided a nuclear reactor that started running over 40 years ago in central Japan could continue operations, upholding a lower court ruling that …
Japan is asking investors to stump trillions of yen over the next decade to back its efforts to tackle climate change. But both investor groups and climate change experts are …
Japan and China held a meeting last month over the release of treated radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea and China’s subsequent import ban on …