Photo taken on March 6, 2023 shows the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Futabacho, Futabagun of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. (Xinhua/Zhang Xiaoyu) TOKYO (Xinhua) -- About 25 tons of radioactive water have leaked within the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, the plant's...
This handout illustration taken on February 7, 2024 and released by Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) on February 8 shows two photos - one the location of a contaminated water leak (L) - and a second image (R) showing a close-up of the vent (R) where the water was released, at part of the...
TOKYO, Japan -- A worker at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant has had a high radiation level detected in his nose, authorities said, in a reminder of the hazards involved in cleaning up the facility crippled in 2011. This file picture taken on January 20, 2023 shows the storage tanks for...
Police and security personnel stand outside the entrance of the Japanese embassy in Beijing on August 29, 2023. (AFP) TOKYO, Japan -- Japan said Tuesday that harassment being faced by Japanese in China after the release of water from the Fukushima nuclear plant was "extremely...
Fukushima Nuclear Plant in Japan. (Photo from AFP) TOKYO, Japan -- Seawater samples taken following the release of wastewater from the crippled Fukushima nuclear reactor showed radioactivity levels well within safe limits, operator TEPCO said on Friday. The start on Thursday of the discharge of...
LAOAG CITY, Ilocos Norte – Filipino environmentalists are protesting the release of Fukushima nuclear wastewater into the Pacific Ocean on Thursday, August 24. Former House Deputy Speaker and environmentalist Lito Atienza Jr. called on all sectors of the Philippines to unite in protesting this,...
The Philippines has expressed no opposition to Japan's move to release into the sea the wastewaters from the Fukushima nuclear power plant. According to the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), the Philippines "recognizes the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)'s technical expertise" on...
TOKYO, Japan -- The release of wastewater from Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific will begin on Thursday, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has announced, despite opposition from fishermen and protests by China. Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (AFP) Japan insists the...
Kim Nguyen/Pexels On June 29 at the Pandesal Forum of Kamuning Bakery Cafe in Quezon City, various fishermen and environmentalist groups gathered to express their opposition to the controversial plan by the Japanese government which involves the impending dumping of 1.3 million tons of Fukushima...
TOKYO, Japan - A Tokyo court Wednesday ordered former executives from the operator of the Fukushima nuclear plant involved in the 2011 disaster to pay around 13 trillion yen ($94.8 billion) in damages, local media said. Four ex-bosses of Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) were ordered to pay the...
Filipino chemist Dr. Angel T. Bautista VII has been recognized by the Japanese government for his research on a project seeking to assess the radioactive contamination from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident to the Philippines by looking at Iodine-129 content in coral cores along...
