Nuclear Articles

TEPCO made the announcement after about three weeks of struggling to bring the damaged reactors 1 - 4 under control

As a unit of State Nuclear Power Technology Corp., SNPDRI sought a standard engineering database to easily share engineering data within the organization and with SNPTC

The agreement is subject to approval by VEC's board of directors, and is contingent on the plant running after March 2012

The information has also been shared with the government of Japan as part of the United States' ongoing efforts to support Japan with the recovery and response effort

Seawater is being injected into all three units using fire-extinguishing hoses

The new power line would power electric water pumps, allowing plant operators to keep a steady flow of water into the reactor cooling systems and spent-fuel ponds

Officials from the DOE, NRC, and other agencies have maintained contact with Japanese officials and will provide whatever assistance the Japanese government requests as they work to stabilize their damaged nuclear reactors

Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan spoke in a nationally televised statement to warn the public of the threat and update the world on the government's response to the nuclear emergency

Since Japan's deadly earthquake, the Fukushima Daini and Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plants on Honshu island have suffered fires, explosions and a level of radiation leakage that officials are calling small

Four nuclear plants in Japan have been safely shut down with no radioactive leakage and in the U.S., nuclear plants along the West Coast are on alert, but still operating