Fukushima

Japan says Fukushima water release to start in ‘spring or summer’
Plan will see some 1 million tonnes of water used to cool the ruined plant’s reactors released into the Pacific.
Published On 13 Jan 2023
Protests grow in South Korea over Japan’s Fukushima water plan
Fishing communities worry water will contaminate the seas despite promises it will be cleaned of radioactive substances.
Published On 3 May 2021
S Korea aims to fight Japan’s Fukushima decision at tribunal
Seoul exploring ways to refer Japan’s Fukushima decision to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea.
Published On 14 Apr 2021
Explainer: The toxic water at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant
Japan will release water from Fukushima into the sea, part of its plan to decommission the ruined power station.
Published On 13 Apr 2021

Government pledges to make water safe before release, but plan draws swift condemnation from China, South Korea.

Japan observes a minute of silence to commemorate the lives lost in the triple disaster of March 11, 2011.

A decade after triple disasters, Japan faces immense challenges in returning to what was previously considered normal.

Japan’s environment ministry said the area in general was safe but that it was in talks to survey the region.

Tohoku Electric Power receives a first green light to restart the No.2 reactor at the Onagawa power plant.

Tepco to decommission four more reactors in the Fukushima prefecture, eight years after Japan’s worst nuclear disaster.

Removing the fuel in the cooling pools was delayed five years by mishaps, high radiation and radioactive debris.

Residents return to Okuma as Tokyo declares 40 percent of town safe eight years after Fukushima nuclear plant accident.

Yokohama court orders government and TEPCO to pay $3.8m to 152 residents forced to flee homes after nuclear meltdown.

Investigating the hidden motives behind actions of the World Health Organisation and the real powers that control it.

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