Tokyo Electric Power Company, Japan’s biggest utility and owner of the devastated Fukushima nuclear plant, is to be taken over by the government after the country’s trade minister approved a $12.5 billion capital injection. (more here…)
This weekend Japan will begin a bold experiment in energy use that no one had thought possible – until the Fukushima Daiichi power plant suffered a triple meltdown just over a year ago. (more…)
Kazuhiko Shimokobe is appointed the new chairman for Tepco, the power firm behind last year's Fukushima nuclear plant disaster. (get the story…)
After personally touring the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facilities in Japan, Oregon U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden has written a letter to Japanese Ambassador Ichiro Fujisaki strongly urging his company to accept international help to prevent more radioactive materials from being released into the … (more…)
Japan needs more time to decide whether to restart two offline nuclear reactors, the trade minister said on Tuesday, as concerns about a summer power crunch vie with safety worries in the wake of last year's Fukushima crisis. (more…)
