- 13:08 05/05/2012 TOKYO, May 5 (RIA Novosti)
The Hokkaido Electric Power company has started work to shut down Japan's last nuclear reactor and leave the country nuclear-free, the generator said on Saturday.
- 11:01 11/03/2012 TOKYO, March 11 (RIA Novosti)
Japan marked on Sunday the one year anniversary of the devastating 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami which killed almost 15,000 people on March 11, 2011.
- 11:56 22/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 22 (RIA Novosti)
About two liters of radioactive water leaked from the turbine building of the second reactor at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, Kyodo news agency reported on Sunday.
- 18:31 06/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 6 (RIA Novosti)
The Japanese government plans to limit the service life of nuclear reactors to 40 years, nuclear disaster minister Goshi Hosono said on Friday, according to the Kyodo news agency.
- 01:43 27/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 27 (RIA Novosti)
An independent commission investigating the causes of the Fukushima nuclear disaster criticized the nuclear power plant's operator and the Japanese nuclear safety agency for being unprepared to such a scenario
- 13:55 15/11/2011
On November 12, Japanese authorities allowed journalists to visit the stricken Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant for the first time since the disaster that crippled it in March of this year. Journalists said that the nuclear facility still lay in ruins.
- 19:21 23/10/2011 TOKYO, October 23 (RIA Novosti)
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda and his French counterpart Francois Fillon on Sunday agreed on joint nuclear safety measures, following the crisis at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant.
- 20:12 13/10/2011 TOKYO, October 13 (RIA Novosti)
Financial loss from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster has been estimated at $74 billion, the Japanese Nuclear Safety Commission said on Thursday.
- 20:10 08/10/2011 MOSCOW, October 8 (RIA Novosti)
The Japanese government plans to expand stockpiles of crude oil and petroleum products as part of preparations for possible disasters.
- 14:59 04/10/2011 TOKYO, October 4 (RIA Novosti)
The Japanese government said it would lay down new soil pollution standards for the area around the stricken Fukushima nuclear power station, expanding the soil decontamination zone to neighboring prefectures, the Asahi Shimbun newspaper said on Tuesday.
- 19:23 22/09/2011 UN, September 22 (RIA Novosti)
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon urged on Thursday an increase in security standards for nuclear energy plants.
- 15:38 18/09/2011 MOSCOW, September 18 (RIA Novosti)
German engineering and industrial giant Siemens will withdraw entirely from the nuclear business in response to the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan in March this year, chief executive Peter Loescher said in an interview with Spiegel magazine.
- 07:38 24/08/2011 MOSCOW, August 24 (RIA Novosti)
Moody's Investors Service has lowered the Japanese government's rating to Aa3 from Aa2, concluding the rating review that began on May 31.
- 19:38 31/07/2011 TOKYO, July 31 (RIA Novosti)
A first International Congress of the Japan's Congress Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs was first held in the city Fukushima, urging also an end to nuclear energy.
- 11:33 15/07/2011 TOKYO, July 15 (RIA Novosti)
Authorities in Japan’s Fukushima Prefecture have asked farmers in the region, where a nuclear power station was badly damaged in March, to stop selling meat over new radiation fears.
- 13:21 10/07/2011 MOSCOW, July 10 (RIA Novosti)
Tokyo Electric Power Co. has halted a system to decontaminate water being used to cool reactors at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power after discovering a chemical leakage, Kyodo news agency reported on Sunday, referring to the plant operator.
- 19:54 09/07/2011 TOKYO, July 9 (RIA Novosti)
Decommissioning of Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, crippled in the March 2011 quake and tsunami, will take decades, Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan said on Saturday in the first government announcement of a long-term timeframe for the cleanup.
- 11:40 02/07/2011 TOKYO, July 2 (RIA Novosti)
Japan's car manufacturing plants will be working at weekends as part of the nation's energy-saving plan in the wake of a recent earthquake and tsunami, the NHK television company said on Saturday.
- 14:16 28/06/2011 MOSCOW, June 28 (RIA Novosti)
Radioactive strontium has been found on the seabed near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, Kyodo reported on Tuesday.
- 10:56 27/06/2011
The first 28,000 residents in the wake of the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant will undergo medical examinations as a part of a broader health checkup program in Fukushima Prefecture, NHK news agency reported on Monday.
- 19:32 26/06/2011 MOSCOW, June 26 (RIA Novosti)
The death toll from the 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami which struck north-east Japan on 11 March has risen to 15,500, police said on Sunday.
- 07:56 24/06/2011 MOSCOW, June 24 (RIA Novosti)
The Japanese government announced on Friday that a double natural disaster that hit Japan in March could cost the country up to 16.9 trillion yen (about $210 bln).
- 17:58 23/06/2011 TOKYO, June 23 (RIA Novosti)
Flamboyant pop star Lady Gaga who has arrived in quake-hit Japan to perform at the MTV Video Music Aid Japan (VMAJ) charity gig promised to set for auction a coffee cup with a message in Japanese "Pray for Japan" and traces of her lip print.
- 16:36 20/06/2011
International Atomic Energy Agency head Yukiya Amano suggested on Monday conducting safety checks on every tenth nuclear power plant in the world in the next three years.
- 13:54 10/06/2011
Radioactive substances are removed from the water by coagulation, a process by which special additives cause the substances to settle
- 06:37 10/06/2011
An increased level of radioactive cesium was registered in tea produced at a factory in Japan's Shizuoka City, which is located some 300 km (186.4 miles) from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, NHK channel reported.
- 09:40 05/06/2011
Radiation levels remain within the norm in all districts of Russia's Far East, a spokesman for the regional emergencies ministry said on Sunday.
- 23:41 04/06/2011
Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan is likely to leave his post by this August, the Kyodo news agency said on Saturday.
- 11:07 30/05/2011
Two employees of the company operating Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant have received an excessive dose of radiation that increased tenfold the iodine level in their bodies to a level exceeding the allowable, Kyodo news agency said on Monday.
- 10:47 29/05/2011
Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) has restored the cooling system of the nuclear reactor and fuel pool at the No. 5 unit of Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant, the plant operator said on Sunday.
- 09:36 29/05/2011
Radiation levels remain within the norm in all districts of Russia's Far East, a spokesman for the regional emergencies ministry said on Sunday.
- 13:37 24/05/2011 RIA Novosti political commentator Dmitry Kosyrev
A recent summit in Tokyo among the three great Asian powers - Japan, South Korea and China - showed that Asia cannot be split into pro-China and anti-China camps because of economic and other realities, including Mother Nature herself.
- 09:48 24/05/2011
Japan's government on Tuesday approved plans to set up an independent commission to investigate the crisis at its crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, Kyodo news said.
- 07:54 24/05/2011
The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) confirmed fuel meltdown in three reactors at its crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
- 12:05 22/05/2011
The operator of Japan's quake-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is facing the challenge of removing highly radioactive debris to proceed with the efforts to stabilize the Number 3 reactor, NHK television channel reported on Sunday.
- 11:10 22/05/2011
Japan may spend from 10 trillion yen to 15 trillion yen (about $184 billion) on rebuilding its economy after a devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck the country's northeast in March, Japanese Economics Minister Kaoru Yosano said on Sunday.
- 11:10 21/05/2011
A giant water-storage barge has arrived at Japan's quake-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant to store highly radioactive waste water from the basement of a reactor building, Kyodo news reported on Saturday.
- 16:49 18/05/2011
New video footage has been released by the operators of Japan's crippled nuclear power plant, which shows the scale of destruction and workers inside buildings.
- 07:32 18/05/2011
A vessel from Russia's Far East Shipping Company (FESCO) carrying 50 metric tons of bottled mineral water as humanitarian aid for Japan will set off on Wednesday from the port of Vladivostok.
- 14:35 17/05/2011
The Japan government adopted on Tuesday revisions to key energy and development policies in light of a recent earthquake and nuclear crisis, the Kyodo news agency said.
- 08:48 14/05/2011
A rescuer who was clearing rubble at the site of Japan's nuclear power plant that was badly damaged by the March 11 earthquake died Saturday, Kyodo News said quoting the plant operator.
- 07:45 14/05/2011
The last two operating reactors of Japan's Hamaoka nuclear power plant were shut on Saturday down over fears of a major earthquake.
- 10:21 12/05/2011
Fuel rods in the No. 1 reactor at Japan's crippled nuclear power plant may have melted after being fully exposed, the plant's operator told the Kyodo news agency on Thursday.
- 10:30 11/05/2011
The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant will sell assets worth more than $6 billion to raise funds to compensate victims of the country's worst nuclear crisis.
- 20:42 09/05/2011
Japan has no plans to dispose its spent nuclear fuel overseas, State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Chiaki Takahashi was quoted by Kyodo news agency as saying.
- 17:06 09/05/2011
Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), detected a potentially dangerous radiation level at the damaged No. 1 reactor of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Kyodo news agency said Monday.
- 08:45 09/05/2011
A group of nine specialists from the plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), entered the No. 1 reactor building early in the morning and spent 30 minutes there.
- 04:59 09/05/2011
Radiation levels remain within the norm in all districts of Russia's Far East.
- 13:59 08/05/2011
Japan will maintain nuclear power despite the ongoing nuclear crisis caused by radiation leaks at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant crippled after a powerful earthquake and tsunami in March this year, a top government official said on Sunday.
- 07:40 07/05/2011
Radiation levels are within the norm in all districts of Russia's Far East, a spokesman for the regional emergencies ministry said on Saturday.
- 11:53 05/05/2011
Tokyo Electric Power Company released footage on Wednesday from inside the crippled nuclear power plant in Fukushima.
- 11:16 05/05/2011
Workers entered one of the damaged reactor buildings at the Fukushima nuclear power plant on Thursday for the first time since it was crippled in a blast, the NHK TV channel said on Thursday.
- 12:44 01/05/2011
Japan's government has lifted restrictions on milk supplies from areas near the quake-stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant earlier imposed over radiation contamination concerns, the Japanese news agency Kyodo reported on Sunday, referring to top government spokesman Yukio Edano.
- 07:28 01/05/2011
Radiation levels are within the norm in all districts of Russia's Far East, where local authorities introduced daily radiation monitoring following the accident at the Japanese nuclear power plant in March.
- 19:16 30/04/2011
Over 13,000 people gathered in Taiwan's capital of Taipei to protest against using nuclear power industry, Kyodo news agency said on Saturday.
- 07:45 26/04/2011
Radiation levels are within the norm in all districts of Russia's Far East, where local authorities introduced daily radiation monitoring following the accident at the Japanese nuclear power plant last month, a spokeswoman for the regional emergencies ministry said on Tuesday.
- 13:29 22/04/2011
The Japanese government on Friday announced a $50 billion emergency budget for post-quake rebuilding.
- 13:46 20/04/2011
The amount of highly radioactive water at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant's Unit Two reactor has lowered slightly, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) was cited by the NHK Japanese TV-channel as saying on Wednesday.
- 11:16 19/04/2011
The World Triathlon Championship in Japan's Yokohama scheduled for May 14 was postponed due to radiation concerns, the International Triathlon Union (ITU) said on Tuesday.
- 09:58 19/04/2011
TEPCO, the operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant has started pumping radioactive water into storage tanks, the Kyodo news agency said on Tuesday citing company sources.
- 07:04 17/04/2011
Radiation levels are within the norm in all districts of Russia's Far East as of early Sunday morning despite the accident at the Japanese nuclear power plant in March, a spokesman for the regional emergencies ministry said.
- 09:58 16/04/2011
Experts conducting round-the-clock monitoring of radiation in Russia's Far East say levels do not exceed natural background despite the accident at the Japanese nuclear power plant in March.
- 21:30 15/04/2011
The Fukushima disaster has revived concerns about the safety of nuclear power plants. Russia - with its sad experience after the Kyshtym and Chernobyl tragedies - offered help to Japan, but for some reason it wasn’t accepted immediately. Professor Sergei Baranovsky, President of Green Cross Russia discusses possible ways to reduce the nuclear threat in the world and reflects on whether it is both possible and reasonable to get rid of nuclear energy completely.
- 21:30 15/04/2011
The Fukushima disaster has revived concerns about the safety of nuclear power plants. Russia - with its sad experience after the Kyshtym and Chernobyl tragedies - offered help to Japan, but for some reason it wasn’t accepted immediately. Professor Sergei Baranovsky, president of Green Cross Russia, discusses possible ways to reduce the nuclear threat in the world and reflects on whether it is both possible - or reasonable - get rid of nuclear energy completely.
- 19:26 15/04/2011
The Russian Geographic Society will send an expedition to the Sea of Japan to monitor the levels of nuclear contamination in its waters and seismic processes in the area, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Friday.
- 10:08 15/04/2011
Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), the operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima 1 Nuclear Power Plant, began dumping bags with zeolites which are able to absorb radioactive substances into the sea, Kyodo news agency reported on Friday.
- 07:24 15/04/2011
The Japanese government has approved a $600-million plan of provisional compensations for evacuees from the 20-km zone around the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.
- 22:43 14/04/2011
Milk from farms in the Fukushima prefecture has returned to Japanese supermarket shelves with a clean bill of health, the NHK news agency reported on Thursday.
- 18:06 13/04/2011
Japan's chief cabinet secretary Yukio Edano tasted tomatoes and strawberries from the Fukushima prefecture at a local market after his aides checked the food with a Geiger counter.
- 22:57 12/04/2011
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will visit Chernobyl nuclear power plant on April 19 as a part of his trip through Eastern Europe, Ban's spokesman Farhan Haq said on Tuesday.
- 18:11 12/04/2011
After a 6.3 magnitude earthquake that hit northeast Japan on April 11, the maximum severity level was assigned to the nuclear accident at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, matching it with the Chernobyl disaster.
- 11:23 12/04/2011
The consequences of the accident at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant may ultimately exceed the level of Chernobyl, a spokesman for Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), the Fukushima Daiichi operator, said on Tuesday.
- 10:38 12/04/2011
Employees of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant have been ordered to evacuate the premises after a 6.3 magnitude earthquake hit the region on Tuesday morning, Kyodo news agency reported.
- 07:16 12/04/2011
Japan has assigned the maximum severity level to the nuclear accident at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
- 14:08 11/04/2011
Japanese authorities are considering new recommendations for residents around the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant involving a possible expansion of the current 20-kilometer evacuation zone, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano told NHK TV on Monday.
- 17:08 10/04/2011
About 15,000 people took to the streets in Tokyo on Sunday to protest against the nuclear power industry after a devastating earthquake caused meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant, the Kyodo agency said on Sunday.
- 06:13 10/04/2011
Radiation levels are within the norm in all districts of Russia's Far East as of early Sunday morning, a spokesman for the regional emergencies ministry said.
- 23:08 07/04/2011
Russia hopes that Japan will disclose full information about the situation at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant and will stop dumping radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean, the Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
- 16:12 06/04/2011
Russia has suspended imports of fish and seafood from 242 Japanese plants in the wake of the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, which led to a leakage of radioactive water into the ocean, the government said on Wednesday.
- 10:47 05/04/2011
South Korean authorities expressed their concern to Japan over possible contamination of the environment due to the release of radioactive water by Tokyo Electric Power Co. into the Pacific Ocean from the Fukushima 1 Nuclear Plant, Kyodo news agency reported on Tuesday.
- 07:55 05/04/2011
Radiation levels are within the norm in Russia's Far East region of Sakhalin as of early Tuesday morning.
- 17:02 04/04/2011
Japan has asked Russia to send a liquid radioactive waste disposal facility for its troubled Fukushima plant, Russia's state-controlled nuclear corporation, Rosatom, said on Monday.
- 12:08 04/04/2011
Japan may review its greenhouse gas emission reduction target in the wake of a nuclear crisis set off by last month's massive earthquake and tsunami, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano was quoted by Japanese media as saying.
- 11:49 03/04/2011
The operator of the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on Sunday continued injecting water-absorbing polymers into a cracked pit but radioactive water was still leaking into the ocean, NHK television reported.
- 12:21 02/04/2011
Highly radioactive water is leaking into the sea from a 20-centimeter crack in a maintenance pit at Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, its operator said on Saturday.
- 08:59 02/04/2011
Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Saturday made his first visit to the evacuation zone around the stricken reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, NHK television reported.
- 06:19 01/04/2011
Radiation levels are within the norm in Russia's Far East region of Sakhalin and the danger of radioactive pollution in the region is unlikely.
- 14:58 31/03/2011
French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Thursday invited G20 nations to meet in Paris to discuss international nuclear safety standards.
- 07:42 30/03/2011
The concentration of radioactive iodine in seawater near Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant is 3,355 times above the norm.
- 12:30 29/03/2011
Japanese authorities have yet to confirm the overflow of radioactive water from the emergency units of Japanese nuclear power plant Fukushima 1, the Kyodo news agency reported on Tuesday.
- 05:53 29/03/2011
Radiation levels were within the norm when they were checked early on Tuesday in Russia's Far East region of Sakhalin, a spokesman for the regional emergencies ministry said.
- 20:28 28/03/2011
Greenpeace suggested on Monday extending the evacuation zone around Japan's quake-hit Fukushima nuclear power plant from 20 to 40 kilometers due to high radiation levels.
- 11:09 28/03/2011
Japan's Toyota Motor Corp has resumed the production of Prius and two Lexus models in Japan after a two-week suspension following a devastating earthquake and tsunami, the Japanese newspaper Mainichi reported on Monday.
- 09:27 27/03/2011
Levels of radioactive iodine in water at reactor No. 2 of Japan's quake-hit Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant are 10 million times above the normal levels, the Kyodo news agency reported on Sunday.
- 09:02 27/03/2011
The radiation background in the Russian Far East on Sunday was within normal limits, said the regional Emergencies Ministry center that monitors radiation levels following a number of recent explosions at Japan's Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant.
- 12:38 26/03/2011
Japan's marine life is in no danger regardless of the radiation levels in the waters near the crippled Fukushima 1 Nuclear Power Plant, government spokesman Yukio Edano said on Saturday.
- 21:16 24/03/2011
Moscow and Washington have agreed to conduct joint stress tests at the nuclear power plants in both countries following a recent nuclear disaster in Japan, the head of Russia's state nuclear energy cooperation said on Thursday.
- 16:20 24/03/2011
Russia will be the host of 2011 Figure Skating World Championship after Tokyo was forced to pull out due to the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan on March 11, the head of Russia's figure skating federation said.
- 15:35 24/03/2011
Fast-neutron reactors should be wider used to generate electricity worldwide, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday.
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