TOKYO, 23 DECEMBER 2025 (REUTERS) — Japan took the final step to allow the world’s largest nuclear power plant to resume operations with a regional vote in Niigata prefecture. It was a watershed moment in the country’s return to nuclear energy nearly 15 years after the Fukushima disaster. Kashiwazaki-Kariwa, located about 220 kilometres north-west of […]
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Japan gov’t proposes Fukushima nuke plant water release to sea or air
TOKYO, 24 DECEMBER 2019 – Japan’s economy and industry ministry proposed on Monday the gradual release or evaporation of massive amounts of treated but still radioactive water being stored at the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant. The proposal to a group of experts is the first time the ministry has narrowed down the various options available […]