News About Japan

TEPCO informed that  decontamination of highly radioactive water which leaked from reactors will cost at least 650 million dollars. According to TEPCO, about 84,700 tons of cooling water have leaked into basements and other areas of the 4 reactor buildings. This contaminated water makes work in reactors’ buildings very difficult if not impossible. TEPCO uses  [...]

Japanese government has no plans for further evacuation of areas around damaged  nuclear power station Fukushima-informed deputy director Japanese nuclear safety agency (NISA) Koichiro Nakamura. Nakamura added however that this zone may be expanded in the future. Already in the previous week the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) suggested Japanese authorities extending the evacuation zone, [...]