20.06.2011
- A rise in radiation halted the clean-up of radioactive water at Japan's Fukushima nuclear power station on Saturday hours after it got under way, a fresh setback to efforts to...
08.06.2011
- Japan on Tuesday pledged to overhaul regulation of nuclear power, saying that lax standards and poor oversight had contributed to the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl in 1986...
24.05.2011
- A U.N. scientific body said on Monday it would study the radiation impact of Japan's nuclear disaster on people and the environment, but it did not expect to detect any major...
23.05.2011
- Japan's Mitsubishi Chemical said on Friday that planned maintenance on the No.2 naphtha cracker at its Kashima plant, with capacity to produce 453,000 tons of ethylene per year...
18.05.2011
- Japanese engineers are trying to gain control of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, 240 km (150 miles) north of Tokyo, which was crippled by the huge March 11 earthquake...
17.05.2011
- Japan's Mitsubishi Chemical said on Monday that maintenance on the No.2 naphtha cracker at its Kashima plant, with capacity to produce 453,000 tons per year of ethylene, would be...
11.05.2011
- Prime Minister Naoto Kan said on Tuesday that renewable energy would be a key pillar of Japan's energy policy after the world's worst nuclear crisis in 25 years and that its...
10.05.2011
- Merck KGaA resumed normal operations at the Onahama production site in Japan on May 8. Among other products, the Onahama site manufactures Xirallic effect pigments, which are...
