Electrified chopsticks that change the taste of food extended the winning streak of Japanese researchers for a satiric Ig Nobel Prize to 17 straight years.
Scientists who left Japan for better prospects elsewhere said the nation’s decision-makers could learn from China’s massive push to become a world leader in scientific research.
Like many other academics around Japan, a male researcher at the Riken research institute feels an increasing sense of crisis that he will be laid off after his employment contract ends in March 2023.
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. said it will move part of its headquarters’ nuclear power department and hundreds of personnel to Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture, in an attempt to win over the public there.
The water level at a damaged reactor building of the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant continued to decline after Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s initial report following the March 16 earthquake.
Coolant pumps for pools storing spent nuclear fuel were shut down for hours at two nuclear power plants in Fukushima Prefecture after the March 16 earthquakes, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said.
Radioactive waste generated from treating highly contaminated water used to cool crippled reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant has thrown up yet new nightmarish challenges in decommissioning the facility, a project that is supposed to be completed in 30 years but which looks increasingly doubtful.
Shoddy welding maintenance work at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture will push back moves to bring the facility back online by many months, perhaps longer, its operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. acknowledged.
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