As an oil- hungry island nation, Japans position on Iran is fraught with inherent tensions. It has to balance an existential thirst for oil to fuel industries, cars and homes against a moral abhorrence of nuclear weapons, especially as the only country devastated by the worlds deadliest bombs in World War II. Iran is the nexus of those top priorities ...
TEHRAN (Tasnim) Workers at Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant started removing fuel rods from a storage pond at the Unit 4 reactor building.
The delicate operation is seen as a necessary step in stabilising the site.
It will take more than two days to remove the first 22 fuel rods from the pond, plant operator Tepco says.
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Japan says it welcomes foreign assistance and expertise in containing radioactive water leaks at the crippled nuclear power plant in Fukushima.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Sunday that his country needs your knowledge and expertise in handling the nuclear crisis, Kyodo News quoted the premier as saying at an international science conference in Kyoto....
TEHRAN (FNA)- Japan voiced anger over cartoons published in a French newspaper that took aim at the decision to award the 2020 Olympics to Tokyo despite the on-going nuclear crisis at Fukushima.
The satirical jabs give the wrong impression about Japan, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, said on Thursday, AlJazeera reported.
The government ...
A Japanese official says the Fukushima nuclear plant is leaking some 300 tons of highly radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean per day.
On Wednesday, an unnamed official said the Japanese government believes the contaminated water has been leaking into the ocean for two years, Reuters reported.
The statement comes after Japanese Prime Minister ...
The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has admitted for the first time that the sites reactors are leaking highly contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean.
Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, admitted the leakage to the ocean for the first time since a catastrophic earthquake ...
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