Kyoto University News
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Yotaro Hatamura, an engineering professor who studies industrial accidents caused by design flaws and human error, will issue a report next week after a six-month investigation into the Fukushima disaster.
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A nuclear accident may raise the cost of atomic power generation by as much as 1.6 yen per kilowatt hour, a Japanese government panel said, casting doubt on whether it’s a cheap source of electricity.
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The Japanese government ordered Tokyo Electric Power Co. to draw up a road map to decommission the damaged four reactors at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant in a process that could take 30 years.
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Tokyo Electric Power Co. said the containment chambers of damaged reactors at its Fukushima nuclear plant were likely breached, identifying additional source of radiation leaks that may exceed Chernobyl.
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Tetsuro Fujita’s eureka moment about a Himalayan fungus in 1985 may mean part of a $5 billion payout for Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corp. a quarter-century later.
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Beyond the police roadblocks that mark the no-go zone around Japan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, six-foot tall weeds invade rice paddies and vines gone wild strangle road signs along empty streets.
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Sentaro Takahashi, a professor at Kyoto University’s Research Reactor Institute , said an announcement by Japan’s nuclear safety agency that 130,000 tera becquerels of iodine 131 has been released from the Fukushima Dai-Ichi power plant since the March 11 earthquake was within estimates and “shouldn’t cause panic.” The disclosure came as the agency today raised the incident level of the nuclear accident to 7 from 5, on par with Chernobyl.
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Japan’s government may lift restrictions this week on some areas outside the exclusion zone around the crippled Fukushima nuclear where residents had been told to prepare for evacuation.
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Tokyo Electric Power Co . said fuel in other reactors at its damaged nuclear plant may have melted, after confirming rods in the No. 1 unit had fallen from their assembly, potentially delaying plans to resolve the crisis.
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Tokyo’s Setagaya district officials said an investigation today of a “high” radiation reading in the area indicates it may not have come from the crippled Fukushima reactors.
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