Japan’s TEPCO finds possible nuclear fuel debris

The operator of Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant may have finally found a portion of nuclear fuel debris responsible for a lot of the lingering contamination from six years ago. If confirmed, it will dramatically improve clean-up efforts.

Fukushima cleanup cost double previous estimate, report says

Japan's electricity customers may have to pay more in order to cover the cost of decommissioning the Fukushima nuclear power plant.

Committee Considers Fukushima for Events in 2020 Olympics

The International Olympic Committee is considering hosting baseball and softball games during the Tokyo 2020 Olympics within the Fukushima disaster zone, it was announced Wednesday.

Oxfam Calls on Iraqi Government to Seek Help to Extinguish Mosul Oil Well Fires

The Iraqi government needs to explain why it has failed to extinguish a series of oil well fires that are contaminating water supplies and causing health problems for thousands of families in Mosul, a spokesman for the charity organization Oxfam told Sputnik on Saturday.

Russia and Japan discuss options for recycling wasted nuclear fuel from Fukushima

Russia and Japan are discussing options for removal of spent nuclear fuel from the reactors of the Fukushima nuclear power plant and its recycling, a source with the Russian nuclear industry told TASS.

Siberian scientists develop eco-friendly method for deoiling lakes

Researchers from Tomsk State University (TSU) have designed an optimal technology for decontamination of oil fuels from lake ecosystems. As shown experimentally, the content of oil in water is lowered by a factor of 35-40 after application of new purification technique.

US scientists expect radioactive water from Fukushima at American coast by April

American scientists beware that radiation from Japan's leaking Fukushima nuclear power plant could reach Pacific coast in the nearest future. Ken Buesseler, a chemical oceanographer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape Cod, Mass., reported that four coastal monitoring sites in California and Washington have detected no traces of radiation from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant destruction - "not yet," he said during a telephone press briefing, but noted that it might reach the coast by April.

Έως 44 δισ. ευρώ η απορρύπανση της Φουκουσίμα

Η απορρύπανση και ο καθαρισμός της περιοχής γύρω από τον πυρηνικό σταθμό της Φουκουσίμα μπορεί να κοστίσει ως και 44 δισ. ευρώ, σύμφωνα με επίσημη έκθεση, ενώ για τρίτη φορά σήμερα ατμός έγινε ορατός πάνω από το κτίριο που στεγάζει τον αντιδραστήρα Νο3. 

Σύμφωνα με το εθνικό Ινστιτούτο Επιστήμης και Βιομηχανικής Τεχνολογίας, το κόστος των επιχειρήσεων καθαρισμού και απορρύπανσης θα είναι πενταπλάσιο απ' αυτό που είχε αρχικά υπολογίσει η κυβέρνηση. 
 
"Ελπίζουμε ότι η μελέτη αυτή θα βοηθήσει στην κατάρτιση σχεδίων για την απορρύπανση των δασών και των αγροτικών περιοχών κι ότι θα ευνοήσει την επιστροφή των κατοίκων στις περιοχές αυτές", τονίζει το Ινστιτούτο στην έκθεσή του την οποία έδωσε χθες στη δημοσιότητα.