Fukushima Nuclear Crisis

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  Japan Court Clears Way For Nuclear Reactor Restarts

  Withstanding heavy public opposition against restarting nuclear reactors, the project was given a green light by the Japanese court today.

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  Japan Restarts Another Nuclear Reactor After Fukushima Crisis

  A Japanese utility on Wednesday switched on a nuclear reactor, the latest to come back in service despite deep public opposition in the aftermath of the Fukushima crisis.

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  Fukushima Evacuees Face Hardship As Japan To Slash Subsidies

  Nearly six years after Noriko Matsumoto and her children fled Japan's Fukushima region, fearing for their health after the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl, they confront a new potential hardship - the slashing of vital housing subsidies.

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  Fukushima Costs To Double To Nearly $180 Billion: Report

  The estimated cost of dealing with the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis has doubled to some $180 billion, a report said Thursday, underlining the challenge Japan faces in overcoming the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.

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  Japan Ends Nuclear Shutdown More Than 4 Years After Fukushima: Official

  Japan on Tuesday switched on a nuclear reactor, officials said, ending a two-year shutdown in the energy-hungry country that was sparked by public fears following the 2011 Fukushima crisis, the worst atomic disaster in a generation.

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  Japan's Nuclear Regulator Says No Repeat of Fukushima Under New Safety Rules: Report

  Japan's nuclear regulator said an accident on the scale of the 2011 Fukushima disaster would not occur under new safety rules imposed on reactors such as Kyushu Electric Power's Sendai No.1, set to be the first to restart since Fukushima, Japan's Nikkei business daily reported on Saturday.

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  Japan Faces Dilemma Over Plutonium Stored in France

  Still dealing with the huge clean up after the Fukushima crisis and debating its future use of atomic energy, Japan now faces another nuclear conundrum - what to do with 16 tonnes of its plutonium sitting in France after being reprocessed there.

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  New Restrictions on Japanese Food Imports Imposed by Taiwan

  Taiwan today imposed new restrictions on food imported from Japan after hundreds of products were recalled over fake labels that disguised they came from areas affected by the country's 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis.

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  Tokyo Park Closed After Rocketing Radiation Levels Found

  Extremely high levels of radiation have been discovered in a playground in Tokyo, officials said today, fanning fears for the health of children in the area.

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  Japan PM Shinzo Abe Seeks Verdict on "Abenomics" in Snap Election

  Prime Minister Shinzo Abe dissolved parliament's lower house today for a snap election on December 14, seeking a fresh mandate for his struggling "Abenomics" revival strategy just two years after he returned to power promising that "Japan is Back".

• Japan posts 20th straight monthly trade deficit

  Resource-poor Japan relies heavily on imported oil and natural gas. Those costs have surged following the March 2011 nuclear crisis in Fukushima, which has led to all 48 of the nation's working reactors going off line.

• Fukushima radiation readings hit new high near contaminated tanks

  Radiation readings around tanks holding contaminated water at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant have spiked more than 20 percent to their highest level, Japan's nuclear regulator said, again raising questions about the clean-up of the worst atomic disaster in 27 years.

• Japan to spend up to $473 million to fix Fukushima nuclear crisis

  Japan is set to pledge up to $500 million to contain leaks of radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, with the government stepping up its intervention in the world's worst atomic disaster in a quarter of a century.

• Fukushima inspectors 'careless', Japan agency says, as nuclear crisis grows

  The operator of Japan's wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant was careless in monitoring tanks storing dangerously radioactive water, the nuclear regulator said on Friday, the latest development in a crisis no one seems to know how to contain.

• Japan says Fukushima leak worst since tsunami

  Japan issued its strongest warning about the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant on Wednesday since the crisis began in 2011, as it struggled to seal a tank that has leaked 300 tonnes of radioactive water.