JAPAN’S NUCLEAR REGULATOR BANS TEPCO FROM RESTARTING ITS PLANT

Highlights –

• Japan’s nuclear regulator bans TEPCO from restarting its plant.
• TEPCO has been barred from transporting nuclear fuel stored at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture.
• The corrective measure is expected ...

Govt. considering release of contaminated water into ocean or air

Post the Fukushima nuclear disaster, a vast amount of radioactive contaminated water got stored by Tokyo Electric Power Co. The same has been treated but still contaminants are present in it. The Economy and Industry ministry has proposed to eliminate the same gradually by evaporation o...