News About Japan

Companies located close to Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant have got permission to continue operations but they must start daily monitoring of their workplace radiation levels. Japanese  government expanded the 20-kilometer evacuation zone around the plant last month because of the risks  of radiation exposure. Employees of companies located in village close to crippled nuclear power [...]

TEPCO  checked the radiation levels directly above the No. 1 and 4 reactors to see how much radioactive material is still being released from the reactors. To take these measurements, TEPCO is using a small instrument attached to the arm of a crane pump, 50 meters tall. On last  Sunday the instrument measured radioactive substances [...]

Japanese government has been closely monitoring radiation levels at schools in Fukushima prefecture since the troubles at Fukushima nuclear power plant began. The latest check shows that radioactivity level is more- less normal at 2 schools, but one in one school rises again. In April, authorities advised kindergartens, elementary and junior high schools in Fukushima [...]

Company TEPCO, an operator of damaged in earthquake from 11 March Japanese nuclear power station Fukushima, announced a plan of solving crisis. TEPCO aims to reduce the level radiation in the plant within three months. “It will take about three months when the radiation level began to decrease”-said at a press conference in Tokyo TEPCO [...]

Fukushima nuclear plant workers are pumping out highly radioactive water, which was spreading to seawater and soil contaminating them. There are hundreds of tons of this radioactive water inside of the nuclear plant buildings. Water must be removed to let workers continue their task of restoring plant’s cooling system. I truly wonder if they can [...]

More than 58% of Japanese believe that the authority does not deal with crisis in Fukushima and damaged nuclear power station and near 58 % supports government’s efforts to aid to the earthquake victims -according to the latest survey. The survey, published on Sunday- was the first phone survey from tragic earthquake and tsunami which [...]