Tag: Fukushima
Japan restarts nuclear reactor near Fukushima | News in brief
After the 2011 accident at Fukushima, Japan shut down all 54 of its nuclear reactors, but has since restarted 12 of the 33 units still operational. The second reactor of…
New Attempt to Extract Radioactive Waste Launched in Fukushima
The Japanese operator of the Fukushima plant, Tepco, is making a new attempt on Tuesday, September 10, to remove a sample of highly radioactive debris from the plant’s reactors. The…
Discharge of Fukushima waters: Russia suspends imports of seafood products from Japan
Russia’s agricultural products regulatory agency is implementing precautionary measures regarding the import of fish and seafood, just like China. Many of Japan’s neighbors denounce this decision to discharge water from…
The whole world was up in arms after Japan’s decision to dump nuclear wastewater into the sea! The first tests were carried out at sea and…
Trying to allay the concerns of neighboring countries about the treated water that has started to be discharged into the ocean from the power plant, Japan will publish weekly test…
Discharge of Fukushima waters: “The Japanese population remains strongly divided”
Cécile Asanuma-Brice co-directs the Mitate-Lab, an international CNRS research project that studies the situation following the Fukushima disaster. While the site’s wastewater discharges into the Pacific Ocean fuel tensions, she…
In China, the discharge of water from Fukushima provokes a wave of misinformation
The controversial discharge of wastewater from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant in the Pacific has sparked a wave of disinformation in China, with viral posts reporting, without scientific basis, worrying…
Fukushima water discharge: China suspends imports of Japanese fish
Japan began on Thursday August 24 to discharge water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the sea, twelve years after the tsunami which caused a serious accident on the…
Discharges of contaminated water in Fukushima: and in France how is it going?
Twelve years after the Fukushima disaster, the operators of the nuclear site devastated by a tsunami began, this Thursday, August 24, to discharge into the Pacific Ocean part of the…
Japan begins discharging sewage from Fukushima despite fear of fishermen and neighbors
Japan begins on Thursday August 24 the discharge into the sea of more than a million tonnes of water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant, waters which have only been…
Then the cooling water from Fukushima is released
The spill will be monitored by representatives from the International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA and Tepco personnel are responsible for taking water and fish samples. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida…