• On September 16, 2013, when a typhoon was approaching the plant, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the owner of the plant, was concerned that the rainwater might flood over the barriers due to heavy rain and drained the water that had accumulated inside the barriers at seven positions as an emergency measure. (cnic.jp)
  • On October 15, the working group decided to settle the request immediately because another typhoon was approaching the crippled nuclear power plant, and approved the water drainage procedure that had been presented by TEPCO, with some procedural steps replaced with stricter ones. (cnic.jp)
  • A meeting of Japan's new nuclear regulator Wednesday revealed that Tokyo Electric Power Co, or Tepco, owner of the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear station, has no idea what it is doing even when it comes to reporting bad news on recent radioactive water leakage at the plant. (bellona.org)
  • The report is the third and final in a series issued by an IAEA-led team of international experts, invited to the plant by the Japanese government and plant owner Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco). (neimagazine.com)
  • The epic recovery from the 2011 accident at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant, already predicted to take decades and cost at least $35 billion, is encountering delays as a series of robot probes have failed due to encountering more difficult conditions than expected, plant owner Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) said this month. (powermag.com)
  • TEPCO is still in the process of inspecting the damage to the plant and locating an estimated 600 tons of melted fuel rods that will need to be removed. (powermag.com)
  • Radioactive materials (such as cesium) that scattered and fell from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant belong to individual landowners, not TEPCO," the utility told Tokyo District Court. (earthtrack.net)
  • Tokyo auditors urge Tepco to seek compensation for failed F. Daiichi projects. (webdesignlady.com)
  • A fifth item concerns the inability to stop trench water outflow from the turbine building basements by freezing, using technology supplied by Tepco subsidiary Tokyo Power Technology. (webdesignlady.com)
  • In this photo provided by Cabinet Public Affairs Office, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida eats the seafood from Fukushima prefecture at lunch at the prime minister's office in Tokyo, Japan, Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023. (yahoo.com)
  • Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan - June 23 2023: Billboards for male host clubs that cater to women in Kabukicho, Shinjuku. (biagiociardo.it)
  • NewswireTODAY - /newswire/ - Tokyo, Japan, 2023/03/30 - One year of stable operation demonstrates this next-generation control technology can decrease environmental impact, achieve stable quality, and transform operations - Eneos-Materials.com / Yokogawa.com . (newswiretoday.com)
  • He set out to Minamisōma, Fukushima near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant to speak to the Mayor who had appeared on YouTube with a distress call that the Japanese Government had neglected the town during the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. (wikipedia.org)
  • By all accounts, the situation at Japan's troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant appears to be getting worse. (motherjones.com)
  • TOKYO (AP) - Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and three Cabinet ministers ate Fukushima fish sashimi at a lunch meeting Wednesday, in an apparent effort to show that fish is safe following the release of treated radioactive wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant that began last week. (yahoo.com)
  • Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings executive Junichi Matsumoto, center, who is in charge of the treated water release from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, announces that the first batch of treated and diluted radioactive wastewater will be released into the Pacific Ocean later Thursday from the plant, in the Okuma town on the northeastern coast of Japan, Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023. (cbs17.com)
  • The operator of the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant will begin releasing the first batch of treated and diluted radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean later Thursday, the utility executives said. (cbs17.com)
  • OKUMA, Japan (AP) - The tsunami-wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has begun releasing its first batch of treated radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean - a controversial step that prompted China to immediately ban seafood from Japan. (cbs17.com)
  • The latest fire at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in northeastern Japan comes one day after another fire there and an explosion at the plant's No. 2 reactor. (cnn.com)
  • The plant's owners have taken precautions to protect the people in Fukushima Prefecture, where the reactors sit. (cnn.com)
  • The power plant's owner, Tokyo Electric Power Company, has been struggling to bring reactor units 1, 2, and 3 under control after last week's earthquake and tsunami caused a massive power failure that disabled the cooling systems. (motherjones.com)
  • Japan's government and Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings say the water held in tanks is taking up much of the plant area and must be removed to free up space to build facilities for the plant's cleanup and decommissioning, which are also expected to take decades. (yahoo.com)
  • The Fukushima nuclear plant suffered meltdowns in three reactors after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami damaged cooling systems at all six of the plant's units. (voanews.com)
  • Japan Atomic Power, the plant's owner, disagrees and says they will apply for restart, regardless. (webdesignlady.com)
  • The commercial start-up of Japan's Rokkasho reprocessing plant has suffered a further delay. (neimagazine.com)
  • The crisis produced sharply increased concern about nuclear power and its environmental risks and led to at least a temporary shutdown of each of Japan's 54 nuclear plants. (fpri.org)
  • Second, Japan's huge power companies are politically powerful, playing leading roles in influential business associations and enjoying much support in communities near plants where the companies have underwritten public expenditures and amenities. (fpri.org)
  • Tokyo Electric Power Co. will build a solar power plant in the state of California through its subsidiary Eurus Energy Holdings Corp., according to a recent report. (eu.com)
  • The carbon-free rigs will pack 50 kilos of hydrogen zapped from water using electricity from the refinery's dedicated solar power plant. (ieee.org)
  • Noland went back to Tokyo, where he interviewed Tokyo Electric Power Company in an effort to gain a better understanding of the impact of the disaster. (wikipedia.org)
  • The fire was discovered Wednesday morning in the northwestern corner of the No. 4 reactor building at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, an official with Tokyo Electric Power Company told reporters. (cnn.com)
  • The legislation creates a special fund that Fukushima owner and operator Tokyo Electric Power Company will use to pay reparations to tens of thousands of residents forced to evacuate a 20-kilometer area surrounding the plant. (voanews.com)
  • Shortly after China's announcement, Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings President Tomoaki Kobayakawa said the utility was preparing to compensate Japanese business owners appropriately for damages suffered by export bans from "the foreign government. (cbs17.com)
  • Things are a bit easier in Tokyo where the local government requires builders to set aside a sizeable area of any new project for greenery - hence the growing popularity of vertical and rooftop gardens in the city. (monocle.com)
  • It also provides great views and a rooftop to see Tokyo Bay. (obsigen.ru)
  • Ashai Shimbum also reports that Japex is considering building at an LNG fired power plant near the planned import and storage facilities to sell power to the struggling and controversial Tokyo Electric Power Co, owner of the nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture that was destroyed in the March, 2011, earthquake and tsunami. (nwcoastenergynews.com)
  • Sendai, Japan (CNN) -- Wednesday broke in Japan with news of a new blaze at the damaged nuclear plant that crews have struggled to control since last week's devastating earthquake and tsunami, adding to radiation fears in a country racing to avoid a full-on nuclear crisis. (cnn.com)
  • Treated radioactive wastewater has accumulated since the March 2011 meltdown at the nuclear plant caused by a massive earthquake and tsunami. (yahoo.com)
  • A scene at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s damaged Fukushima Daiichi power plant months after the earthquake and tsunami in 2011. (powermag.com)
  • The plant was crippled a dozen years ago when an earthquake and tsunami caused reactors to melt down. (knau.org)
  • Edano said analysts also have their eyes on reactors No. 5 and 6 at the plant, where cooling systems weren't functioning well, though the temperature had dropped slightly Tuesday. (cnn.com)
  • The situation at the Japanese plant is constantly changing and involves several reactors in various states of disrepair. (motherjones.com)
  • To recap: The Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant has six nuclear reactors. (motherjones.com)
  • The Sinop Nuclear Power Plant project calls for the construction of four nuclear power reactors in the Sinop area near the Black Sea. (cnic.jp)
  • In that case, it wasn't radioative cesium that clearly came from TEPCO's plant, but "Roundup-ready" (Roundup is a Monsanto pesticide) Canola seeds that clearly came from surrounding farms that were planting the stuff to boost yields. (earthtrack.net)
  • Tokyo Electric Power Co. (9501), owner of the power plant which had the world's biggest nuclear disaster since 1986, was sued by eight U.S. sailors claiming they were exposed to radiation and the utility lied about the dangers. (uchicago.edu)
  • Coal also is the most used fossil fuels for producing electricity as we use coal power plants for producing around 40% of the world's electricity, and we commonly use it in cement manufacturing and industrial purposes such as refining metals. (sesamenet.eu)
  • The Japanese parliament has approved a plan to compensate the victims of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster. (voanews.com)
  • Kent Calder argued that Japan has recovered rapidly-although still incompletely-from the earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster. (fpri.org)
  • KUHN: Supermarket owner Takashi Nakajima has watched as Fukushima's landscape has changed since the disaster. (knau.org)
  • He travels around Japan and the world collecting exotic, magical plants. (spoon-tamago.com)
  • And while the UNSCEAR acknowledged that "contaminated rice, beef, seafood, milk, milk powder, green tea, vegetables, fruits and tap water were found all over mainland Japan", it neglected "estimating doses for Tokyo … which also received a significant fallout both on March 15 and 21, 2011. (counterpunch.org)
  • On 30 January its owner, Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd (JNFL), filed an application with the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) to change its construction plan, pushing the scheduled completion date of the plant back to August 2009. (neimagazine.com)
  • Although the currently ruling Democratic Party of Japan includes sharp critics of nuclear power, the party is divided and the government resisted calls to permanently shutter the plants after Fukushima. (fpri.org)
  • The Asian Financial Crisis of the late 1990s devastated the means (including the Industrial Bank of Japan) for raising the immense capital that would be needed to build new power plants of any type. (fpri.org)
  • One previous owner was Iwasaki Yataro, founder of Mitsubishi, who imported stones from all over Japan with his steamships. (celebritycruises.com)
  • The unit of Anglo-Dutch giant Royal Dutch Shell will ship cells from a plant now under construction in Miyazaki prefecture, southern Japan. (eu.com)
  • There is a no-talking policy, aside from whispering your drinks order to the cafe owner. (fionaariva.com)
  • The HRL group of companies via its subsidiary Dual Gas proposes to build a 600 megawatt brown coal (lignite) power plant using Integrated Drying Gasification and Combined Cycle technology (IDGCC). (sesamenet.eu)
  • The plant is now owned by Ark Energy, a subsidiary of Korea Zinc, which also owns the adjacent refinery. (ieee.org)
  • According to Yonhap news agency, the Presidential Office cafeteria this week was serving Korean fish, whose demands have fallen due to concern about the impact of the release of the wastewater from the Fukushima plant. (yahoo.com)
  • And while coal plants still supplied over half of Australia's power in 2021, change is afoot. (ieee.org)
  • Radiation levels in Tokyo were twice the usual level Tuesday, but they were too negligible to pose a health threat, officials said. (cnn.com)
  • Medical staff check radiation levels on residents 40 miles from the damaged Fukushima power plant. (motherjones.com)
  • Tony Hooker, director of the Center for Radiation Research, Education, Innovation at the University of Adelaide, said the water released from the Fukushima plant is safe. (cbs17.com)
  • Shop in store for wrapped bouquets, vase arrangements, and indoor plants, and order gifts such as candles, tarot decks, and bath products online for shipping. (7x7.com)
  • While the interior is cool and dark, sunlight filters through the windows and indoor plants, giving a sense of airiness and respite from the afternoon heat. (fionaariva.com)
  • On October 29, 2013, the international consortium in which Mitsubishi Heavy Industries participates (along with Japanese company Itochu and French company GDF Suez), agreed with the government of the Republic of Turkey on the outline of the commercial contract concerning the Sinop nuclear power plant project, which the Turkish government is promoting. (cnic.jp)
  • A nuclear power plant in Byron, Illinois. (uchicago.edu)
  • Meanwhile, the restart could be approaching for the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant, shut down since the Niigata Chuetsu offshore earthquake hit on 16 July 2007. (neimagazine.com)
  • Operators of nuclear power plants are liable for any damage caused by them, regardless of fault. (earthtrack.net)
  • In terms of sheer chutzpah, Tokyo Electric Power Co's claim that it no longer owns the radioactive isotopes that spewed out of its Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in March takes some beating. (earthtrack.net)
  • Tokyo Electric is one of four Japanese corporate giants moving into the U.S. renewable energy market with solar and wind power technologies. (eu.com)
  • KUNPEI HAYASHI: (Through interpreter) This will be a turning point in the history of building one nuclear power plant after another for the big city of Tokyo. (knau.org)
  • The Sual Power Plant is the largest coal-fired power plant in the Philippines [in terms of installed capacity]. (sesamenet.eu)
  • 22.01.1998 · The customer for Sual, the largest coal fired power plant to be built in the Philippines, is the Pangasinan Electric Corporation. (sesamenet.eu)
  • Sual Coal-Fired Thermal Power Plant Project Project Brief. (sesamenet.eu)
  • Sual Coal Power Plant Philippines is located at Bangayao Point on Lingayen Gulf, Sual, Pangasinan, Philippines. (sesamenet.eu)
  • This infrastructure is of TYPE Coal Power Plant with a design capacity of 1218 MWe. (sesamenet.eu)
  • Sual, Pangasinan - Considering that power rates in the Philippines are the third highest in Asia in the survey done by an Australia-based consulting firm specializing in Asian power markets, this town is welcoming the possible entry of another coal-fired power plant. (sesamenet.eu)
  • WANO is the association of nuclear power plant owners worldwide. (romanianbusinessjournal.ro)
  • A statement from Tokyo said: "After considering the additional costs entailed in continuing to operate NuGen, Toshiba recognises that the economically rational decision is to withdraw from the UK nuclear power plant construction project, and has resolved to take steps to wind up NuGen. (itv.com)
  • Over a 35 day (840 hour) consecutive period, from January 17 to February 21, 2022, this field test initially confirmed*3 that the AI solution could control distillation operations that were beyond the capabilities of existing control methods (PID control/APC) and had necessitated manual control of valves based on the judgements of experienced plant personnel. (newswiretoday.com)
  • EDO POP-UP at the Palais de Tokyo Facing the Seine and the Eiffel Tower, we're surprised the Ville de Paris agreed to stage this. (bonjourparis.com)
  • Yoriyuki Yamada: We envision a city that can support a variety of animal and plant life. (monocle.com)
  • Dating back to the early 1700s, this garden in central Tokyo went through various hands until it became a city park in 1932. (celebritycruises.com)
  • Yes, that's the only other city in the world that has a Doughnut Plant outlet. (blogspot.com)
  • Peet's is still primarily a California operation, with a few stores in other metropolitan areas (see below) and a short-lived four-store partnership in Tokyo. (waymarking.com)
  • In 2007 Peet's opened its new and completely green roasting plant in Alameda, California. (waymarking.com)
  • This new roasting plant replaced the former operations in Emeryville, California, and is expected to provide enough roasting capacity to allow Peet's to double its current annual sales to about $500M per year. (waymarking.com)
  • In Tokyo, a sign at a Japanese-style bar warning "the Chinese" that it's only serving food from Fukushima caught the attention of a Chinese V-tuber, who called police complaining about the "nationality discrimination" against the Chinese by singling them out. (yahoo.com)
  • Since May 2009, Yamada has raised tens of thousands of Japanese honey bees in Tokyo and Nagoya. (monocle.com)
  • The decision by the Japanese firm's board is a huge blow to plans for a new nuclear plant at Moorside in Cumbria. (itv.com)
  • If plant workers can't regain control over the units, there could be a meltdown. (motherjones.com)
  • Concerns about hot radioactive fuel boiling off cooling water and catching on fire continued into Wednesday, with plant operators and government officials considering a plan to use helicopters to drop water into the cooling pond through the damaged roof of the reactor building, according to a Kyodo News report. (cnn.com)
  • It begins in Shikoku, where washi paper is made from the veins in the leaves of the Manila Jute plant. (dezeen.com)
  • Tokyo plans to store all accumulated rural low level waste on a 16km 2 site overlapping both towns, adjacent to the nuke station. (webdesignlady.com)
  • That's not the owner of the store. (blogspot.com)
  • Owner Sandra Bautista draws her aesthetic both from her Mexican roots and a love for Scandinavian design at her studio whose name means 'give light' in Spanish. (7x7.com)
  • Plus, the husband and wife owners specialize in floral design and weddings. (7x7.com)
  • The levels of seismic ground motion estimated in the plant design process were significantly exceeded during the 2007 earthquake. (neimagazine.com)
  • The next day, most everyone present during the Mazda Design Night presentation of the Vision Coupe had already posted the car's photos on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter by the time we reached the Tokyo Motor Show venue. (visor.ph)
  • Unique design, with emphasis on pronounced curved surfaces, also Urbanscape Roll (20mm) applied for shallow parts for grass planting. (worldgreeninfrastructurenetwork.org)
  • Precautions that need to be taken in case of future seismic events, which could be much stronger than that one, have been identified and a number of plant repairs and upgrades are being implemented. (neimagazine.com)
  • Following a scheduled plant shut-down for maintenance and repairs, the field test resumed and has continued to the present date. (newswiretoday.com)
  • Sanyo Electric Co. is set to expand the solar cell production capacity of its Mexican plant, which assembles products for the North American market, by 150 percent to 50,000 kilowatts, the daily said. (eu.com)
  • In 1984 Jerry Baldwin, one of the original founders of Starbucks and Alfred Peet's former partner, and co-owner Jim Reynolds, the roastmaster, with a group of investors bought Peet's' four Bay Area locations. (waymarking.com)
  • The company apparently plans to begin operations at the 1000 kilowatt plant by 2010 on a site yet to be selected, the Nikkei business daily reported. (eu.com)
  • ANTHONY KUHN, BYLINE: Just as the plant began releasing the water, fishermen were auctioning their catch at a port to the north. (knau.org)
  • He continues to pursue the beauty of plants from his distinctive point of view. (artfixdaily.com)
  • This 300-year-old garden is widely considered the most beautiful green space in Tokyo for good reason. (celebritycruises.com)
  • This agreement follows a successful field test in which this autonomous control AI*1 demonstrated a high level of performance while controlling a distillation column at this plant for almost an entire year. (newswiretoday.com)
  • This trade fair, which takes place in Tokyo at the Big Sight International Exhibition Center, will be the venue for the world premiere of the BMW X2. (cleantechnica.com)
  • Even in modern Tokyo, many such gardens remain, offering a quiet place to escape the city's buzz. (celebritycruises.com)
  • They wanted a quiet place to enjoy their garden and take a break from Tokyo. (obsigen.ru)
  • Construction of BMW's high-voltage battery assembly plant in Woodruff, South Carolina, began October 5 with a ceremonial signing that celebrated the first steel to be erected at the site. (cleantechnica.com)
  • Seijun is the fifth generation owner of Hanau , a wholesale floral product distributor that dates back almost 150 years. (spoon-tamago.com)
  • La Fontaine Gaillon La Fontaine Gaillon Superchef Marc Veyrat composes a menu with accents on lake fish, accompanied by light sauces and wines which are a nod and wink to former owner Gérard Depardieu. (bonjourparis.com)
  • Good to know about these plants. (spoon-tamago.com)
  • We focused on unique shapes, good views, and not harming plants. (obsigen.ru)
  • He says local fish commands a good price in the fish markets of Tokyo. (knau.org)
  • It was so good that I headed straight for them the moment I saw their outlet in Tokyo. (blogspot.com)
  • The company cultivates thousands of plant species that Seijun has collected. (spoon-tamago.com)
  • The company will look into applying this AI to other types of processes and plants, and will continue working to improve productivity and save energy by expanding the scope of autonomization. (newswiretoday.com)
  • In conjunction with this service, the company is offering customers who wish to achieve autonomous plant operations a global consulting service that covers everything from the identification of control issues to the investigation of optimum control methods and the calculation of cost-effectiveness, and includes safety, implementation, maintenance, and operation. (newswiretoday.com)
  • This is the first example in the world of reinforcement learning AI being formally adopted for direct control of a plant*2. (newswiretoday.com)
  • To promote plant autonomization, on February 27 Yokogawa launched the provision of an autonomous control AI service for edge controllers*5, also a world first*6. (newswiretoday.com)
  • Peet's now roasts at a small plant in nearby Alameda-the only green coffee plant in the world. (waymarking.com)
  • It was the government that came here and built the nuclear plant. (knau.org)
  • Since the Fukushima nuclear plant was built in 1967, Hayashi says, the local economy became reliant on it and the government subsidies it brought. (knau.org)
  • Whilst NuGen will not be taking the project forward, the Moorside site in Cumbria remains a site designated by Government for nuclear new build, and it is now for the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority as the owner of the site and the Government to determine its future. (itv.com)
  • Discover the dangerous Devil's Claw (Harpagophytum procumbens), the stinky Elephant Foot Yam (Amorphophallus paeoniifolius), and the Nepenthes truncate, a plant known to occasionally catch and digest small mammals like mice. (spoon-tamago.com)
  • A neighborhood gem for over 35 years, Le Bouquet keeps a selection of seasonal blooms and plants available in the shop and for ordering online for same-day or future pickup and delivery. (7x7.com)
  • Azuma Makoto has been in the flower business since 2002 and is an owner of the haute-couture floral shop, JARDINS des FLEURS in Minami-Aoyama, Tokyo. (artfixdaily.com)
  • In addition to the flower shop business, Azuma began to explore the expressive potential of flowers and plants in 2005. (artfixdaily.com)
  • ENEOS Materials Corporation (formerly the elastomers business unit of JSR Corporation) and Yokogawa Electric Corporation announce they have reached an agreement that Factorial Kernel Dynamic Policy Programming (FKDPP), a reinforcement learning-based AI algorithm, will be officially adopted for use at an ENEOS Materials chemical plant. (newswiretoday.com)
  • Photo: A pool photo taken during a visit of journalists to the Fukushima Daiichi plant. (bellona.org)
  • The AUS $200 million, 120-hectare plant can supply 124 megawatts under ideal conditions. (ieee.org)
  • In 1987, Baldwin and Peet's owners sold the Starbucks chain to focus on Peet's, and Baldwin and Howard Schultz, Starbucks' new owner, entered into a no-compete agreement in the Bay Area. (waymarking.com)