UPDATE - This article was updated on 24 February following a revision by Tepco indicating that the water had not yet passed through the desalination plant and was intended to be fed into tanks in a ...

Bolted flange tanks at Fukushima Daiichi, which had previously leaked, are no longer in use. Tokyo Electric Power Company has completed the transfer of the treated water to new welded tanks onsite ...

Storage tanks for contaminated water stand at TEPCO's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's nuclear regulators have approved a plan to release into the ...

Protest against Japan's plan to release treated wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the ocean TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan began pumping more than a million metric tons of treated ...

Storage tanks for contaminated water at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant are near capacity. (Philip Fong | AFP via Getty Images) Workers in Japan have started releasing treated radioactive ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - A worker at Japan's destroyed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant died on Tuesday after falling inside a water storage tank, the latest in a spate of industrial accidents at the ...

Japan is set to begin pumping more than a million tons of treated water from the destroyed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on Aug. 24, a process that will take decades to complete. The water was ...

FUTABA, Japan (AP) — For the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, managing the ever-growing volume of radioactive wastewater held in more than 1,000 tanks has been a safety risk and a burden since ...

Tokyo — The fishing industry around Japan's Fukushima coast expressed disappointment and resignation over the weekend as long-expected plans to start releasing treated wastewater into the ocean from ...

The numbers were climbing on a radiation dosimeter as the minibus carried me deeper into the complex. Biohazard suits are no longer required in most parts of Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi power plant, but ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Contaminated water with dangerously high levels of radiation is leaking from a storage tank at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, the most serious setback to the clean up of ...

Nigel Marks is an Associate Professor in the Physics department at Curtin University. In 1996/97 he worked at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology (ANSTO) in the reactor division. He has ...