Fukushima I Dai-Ichi Nuclear Plant

Type: Organization

Name: Fukushima I Dai-Ichi Nuclear Plant

First reported 3 hours ago - Updated 3 hours ago - 1 reports

Gazprom Sends Drilling Rigs to Far East

From UPIRussian energy company Gazprom announced it dispatched two drilling rigs to start an exploration campaign off the eastern Russian coast.Gazprom officials have focused their energy on Asian markets to capitalize on growing demand for natural gas. ... [Published Energy Tribune - 3 hours ago]

Entities: Gazprom OAO, FAR, Japan Earthquake & Tsunami, Natural Gas

First reported 5 hours ago - Updated 5 hours ago - 1 reports

Liberal Democratic Party (JP)

Meltdowns haven’t killed anyone: LDP bigwig

Print: Jun 19, 2013Last Modfied: Jun 19, 2013Liberal Democratic Party policy chief Sanae Takaichi has created a stir by saying the 2011 Fukushima meltdowns didn’t kill anyone and arguing the government should restart reactors nationwide given Japan’s ... [Published Japan Times - 5 hours ago]

Entities: Liberal Democratic Party (JP), Yoshihide Suga, Sanae Takaichi

First reported 5 hours ago - Updated 5 hours ago - 1 reports

Tokyo Electric Power Co Inc

Tepco minutes reveal staff exodus concerns

Tokyo Electric Power Co. executives spent dozens of meetings fretting about the utility’s future as hundreds of younger employees quit over salary cuts after the Fukushima No. 1 reactor meltdowns, according to minutes obtained by Bloomberg News.“The company ... [Published Japan Times - 5 hours ago]

Entities: Tokyo Electric Power Co Inc, Fukushima I Dai-Ichi Nuclear Plant, Reactor

First reported 9 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 1 reports

Naoto Kan

After Fukushima, Japan beginning to see the light in solar energy

Government subsidies raising interest in renewables, but higher bills could complicate Shinzo Abe's economic recovery plan Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - 9 hours ago]

Entities: Japan, Naoto Kan, Solar Power, Fukushima (Japan)

First reported 7 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 1 reports

TEPCO delays test run of water decontamination system at Fukushima plant

A suspected leak in one of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant's wastewater storage tanks prompted Tokyo Electric Power to su - More - ... [Published NEI SmartBrief - 7 hours ago]

Entities: Tokyo Electric Power Co Inc, Fukushima I Dai-Ichi Nuclear Plant, Decontamination

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated 8 hours ago - 5 reports

Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for June 14th to June 17th, 2013

Here’s the latest of our news bulletins from the ongoing crisis at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.State of the Fukushima ReactorsAfter spending just 15 minutes on the fourth floor of reactor #1, Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) inspectors ... [Published Greenpeace USA - 8 hours ago]

Entities: Reactor, Tokyo Electric Power Co Inc, Fukushima I Dai-Ichi Nuclear Plant, Decontamination, Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Plant

First reported 19 hours ago - Updated 11 hours ago - 1 reports

Gov't eyes implementation of new nuclear regulations from July 8

The government is making arrangements to introduce a set of new nuclear regulations from July 8, sources close to the matter said Tuesday, in a move to overhaul safety requirements for commercial reactors following the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi complex ... [Published GlobalPost - 19 hours ago]

Entities: Reactor, Nuclear, Nuclear Regulation Authority of Japan, Countermeasures

First reported 11 hours ago - Updated 11 hours ago - 1 reports

Japanese Politicians Suffer Relapse of Foot-In-Mouth

While reciting the Liberal Democratic Party line about the need to restart Japan's nuclear reactors, ruling-party policy chief Sanae Takaichi said in a speech Monday there had been "no deaths" as a result of the 2011 Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear accide ... [Published WSJ.com: Japan Real Time - 11 hours ago]

Entities: Suffer, Sanae Takaichi, Nuclear Accident

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated 14 hours ago - 3 reports

Honda Jointly Develops Robot For Post-Earthquake Efforts

At Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power StationHonda has jointly developed a highly innovative survey robot as part of the effort to control the situation at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station after the Japan earthquake struck in 2011.The robot ... [Published Scoop - 14 hours ago]

Entities: Honda Motor Co Ltd, Tokyo Electric Power Co Inc, Fukushima I Dai-Ichi Nuclear Plant

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated 23 hours ago - 1 reports

Japan and V4 pledge cooperation

A summit meeting of the leaders of Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia and Japan has concluded with the prime ministers promising ongoing cooperation in fields including nuclear energy.The four central European nations make up the Visegrad Group, ... [Published World Nuclear News - Jun 17 2013]

Entities: Japan, Poland, Nuclear

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated Jun 17 2013 - 3 reports

Shrinking Prospects for Nuclear Power Plants

Shrinking Prospects for Nuclear Power Plants 24/7 Wall St. Following the disaster at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plants in 2011, Germany said it would shut down all its nuclear generation and Japan has already closed down all but two of its ... [Published Michele Kearney's Nuclear Wire - Jun 17 2013]

Entities: Nuclear Power Plant, Fukushima I Dai-Ichi Nuclear Plant, Reactor, Goldman Sachs Group Inc, Nuclear

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated Jun 17 2013 - 1 reports

TEPCO mulls putting off application to restart Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuke plant

Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) is mulling putting off its application for safety screening of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture until a plan to restart the plant gains local approval, it has been learned.TEPCO started ... [Published MAINICHI Daily News - Jun 17 2013]

Entities: Tokyo Electric Power Co Inc, Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Plant, Nuclear, Niigata

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"The government is sort of adding a bonus percentage to spark the market," said Travis Woodward, a Tokyo-based Bloomberg New Energy Finance analyst. "The downside is definitely that [consumers] are paying for it. It's great to introduce all this, but it's going straight on your electricity bill."

After Fukushima, Japan beginning to see the light in solar energy [Published Guardian.co.uk - 9 hours ago]

...They said, "We thought that if we went to an evacuation center or a place we didn't know, we wouldn't be able to move around."

Revised disaster law requires local gov'ts make lists of vulnerable residents [Published MAINICHI Daily News - 12 hours ago]

"The robot uses a zoom camera, laser range finder and dosimeter located at the tip of the arm to confirm detailed images, collect 3D data and identify the source of radiation" Honda said. It's designed to probe high, narrow, hard-to-reach areas

Honda's little radiation-proof robot does nuke duty [Published Automotive News - Jun 17 2013]

"The company will continue the gasification of Far Eastern regions with due consideration for the economic development and gas consumption outlook" it said in a statement

Gazprom sends drilling rigs to Far East [Published UPI - Jun 17 2013]

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