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Tokyo Electric Power Co. has restarted cooling systems at Fukushima Daiichi spent fuel pools following an electrical outage that TEPCO suspects might be connected to a dead rodent found near a switchboard. Developments over the last week at the Japanese nuclear plant blacked out following the 2011 earthquake...

A worker's error at Japan's sole operating nuclear plant and another outlay from a government compensation fund highlighted the news surrounding Fukushima Daiichi this week. Recent developments related to the Tokyo Electric Power Co. plant blacked out following Japan's 2011 earthquake and...

Workers successfully removed the first fuel from a storage tank at Fukushima Daiichi, while at the Ohi plant a second reactor has come back online. Recent developments related to the Tokyo Electric Power Co. reactors damaged by Japan's massive earthquake and tsunami last year include: Fuel Removed...

After 57 days without nuclear power, energy-short Japan restarted its first reactor since the accidents at Fukushima Daiichi. Before last year's earthquake and tsunami blacked out the six-unit Tokyo Electric Power Co. plant, the country's 50 reactors provided nearly 30 percent of its electricity...

This week, Japan prepared to bring its first reactor back into service since the Fukushima Daiichi accidents last year, while on Wednesday Tokyo Electric Power Co. detected a record amount of radiation in the basement of Fukushima unit 1. Recent developments related to the Tokyo Electric Power Co. nuclear...

On Saturday, Japan’s government granted permission for a restart of two Kansai Electric Power Co. reactors at the Ohi plant – the first units to return to service since the accidents at Fukushima Daiichi last year. Japan’s nuclear plants provided 30 percent of the country’s power...