Japan PM pledges Revolutionary Energy Shift
Japan’s Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Friday pledged a revolutionary shift away from atomic power and towards renewable energy in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Japan’s Hamaoka Atomic Plant to Build Huge Seawall
In a desperate measure and shocking decision to protect its gravely aging Hamaoka nuclear plant perilously located near a faultline, Chubu Electric decided to spend about 100 billion yen ($1.3 billion) on a 1.6-kilometre (1 mile) “anti-tsunami seawall”. This decision came only two months after the japaneese government asked Chubu Electric to shut down its plant…
Japan Quake Makes 2011 Costliest Disaster Year
Japan’s devastating earthquake and tsunami in March caused losses of 210 billion euros and 15,500 people perished, making it the costliest natural catastrophe on record.
Japan Says Nuclear Plant Clean-Up Will Take Several Decades
Japan’s prime minister said on Saturday the decommissioning of the tsunami crippled Fukushima nuclear plant would take several decades.
Energy-Short Japan Eyes Renewable Future
In the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster, power shortages have forced one of the world’s most energy-efficient countries to make do with even less.The International Energy Agency (IEA) said in a report this week that tsunami-torn Japan “is in the midst of perhaps one of the most severe electricity shortfalls in history.”
Japan groups alarmed by radioactive soil
Soil radiation in a city 60 kilometres (40 miles) from Japan’s stricken nuclear plant is above levels that prompted resettlement after the Chernobyl disaster, citizens’ groups said Tuesday. The coastal Fukushima Daiichi plant has been spewing radiation since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami knocked out its cooling systems.
Report From Japan: No News Is Good News?
Controlling information flow in a crisis is crucial to its outcome. So it is no surprise that much information received about how the crisis at Fukushima unfolded has been kept away from traditional and social media as long as possible… Meanwhile people, environment and marine life along Fukushima coast, are still soaking up radiation.
75th Aftershock of Magnitude 6 or Higher, Hits Near Japan East Coast
A magnitude 6.7 earthquake rocked Japan today near the East coast of Honshu, the 75th aftershock of at least magnitude 6.0 from the devastating magnitude 9.0 quake on March 11, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
Italy says Yes to a nuclear energy free future
In the past weekend Italians’ were called to cast their vote on four referendums, one of which was about the production of nuclear energy in Italy. 95% of voters have chosen for a future free of nuclear energy.