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The unidentified worker was assigned to Fukushima Daiichi for about a week in early August by a subcontracting company.

The workers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant are trying to cool down the fuel rods inside the nuclear reactors.

Whether or not the pursuit of these designs is blunted by the Fukushima Daiichi event remains to be seen.

TEPCO had been operating three out of six reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant at the time of the quake, all of which shut down.

"There was no damaged piping in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, as claimed in the article, " he said.

According to two people present, when Mr. Kan heard about Fukushima Daiichi, he said, 'The real trouble is at the nuclear plant. '

It was not until Sunday that the increasingly dangerous nature of the problems at Daiichi became clear.

He said the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant on Japan's northeast coast is one of at least three nuclear facilities at risk.

There was a small release of radioactive steam at Three Mile Island in 1979, and there have also been a few releases at Fukushima Daiichi.

At least four of the Daiichi reactors, which provide power to Tokyo, are too badly damaged to be repaired.

As the Daiichi plant has continued to infect the region's air and water, Tokyo citizens have gone through cycles of alarm and ennui.

There is only a minuscule chance that Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant will turn into a new Chernobyl.

In the wake of Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident, radiation could once again lead to a gender bias in humans, he said.

The situation at the Daiichi nuclear reactor at Fukushima continued to baffle nuclear experts and governments yesterday.

He said post-quake reconstruction, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis and economic growth are his top priorities.

The disaster unfolding at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has riveted everybody here, as it has around the world.

Since Friday, they have, at least, been issuing regular public bulletins about the state of affairs at the Daiichi plant.

Mr. Kan also said the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power center is the worst Japan has ever faced.

Nuclear-power experts say few operators anywhere are likely prepared for the kind of disaster that struck Fukushima Daiichi.

One Tokyo resident said he was extremely nervous about the events at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant.

Its output will depend on the supply of components and a sixth plant in Fukushima prefecture, near the stricken Daiichi nuclear plant.

Mr. Kanalaoalso said the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power center is the worst Japan has ever faced.

The restarts typically are approved routinely, but all have been delayed since the Fukushima Daiichi disaster.

There was no evacuation of the roughly 1, 000 workers stationed at Daiichi after the high radiation levels were discovered.

Over the next two days, the two other operating reactors at Fukushima Daiichi followed a similar path.

Daiichi is not synonymous with Chernobyl in terms of the severity of contamination.

"We have no information immediately indicating any abnormality at Fukushima Daiichi plant, " a spokesman told a news conference.

It's still hard to tell what the exact situation is at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, 170 miles north of Tokyo.

The Japanese have ordered the evacuation of a 20-kilometer area around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

Concern is mounting about the long-term fate of people who remain close to the country's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear-power plant.

And with electricity still scarce from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis, a landmark building in Tokyo has dimmed its famous lights.

And the European Union's energy chief, Guenther Oettinger, declared the Fukushima Daiichi site 'effectively out of control. '

The higher level had been set in March as an emergency level for workers only at Fukushima Daiichi.

Our two busloads of journalists and Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) employees entered Daiichi through a checkpoint.

In normal times, thousands of workers perform routine tasks of reactor maintenance at the Fukushima Daiichi complex.

Officials said the newly discovered contamination doesn't mean there are new problems at Fukushima Daiichi.

Tepco on Tuesday said the temperature at the Daiichi plant's reactors No 5 and 6 had risen above normal levels.

The cooling system for a reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant failed on Friday after a massive earthquake caused a power outage.

Early Tuesday, Tepco said radioactive substances exceeding the normal levels set by Japan were detected in seawater near the Daiichi plant.

Fukushima Daiichi's three active reactors went into automatic shutdown, called a 'scram. '

That didn't happen at Fukushima Daiichi, a complex with a number of reactors: backups to backups to the pumps' power supplies failed.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. workers record the status of instruments in a control room at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.

Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi plant have been battling to cool reactors and spent fuel ponds to avoid a large-scale release of radiation.

This figure does not even include the potential financial fallout from the nuclear crisis at Tokyo Electric's Fukushima Daiichi plant.

The Fukushima Daiichi plants are built on the shore. Groundwater beneath appears to be linked to tidal flows.

The restoration of electricity at the plant, the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, stirred hopes that the crisis was ebbing.

Four SDF troops sustained injuries when an explosion occurred at one of the reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant Monday.

What's certain is a series of blasts wrecked parts of the Daiichi plant, while Three Mile remained fully intact.

Podowski believes that another new technology may that uses smaller, less radioactive plants could avoid some of the problems at Daiichi.

Their fears are being fanned by the unresolved crisis at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, which suffered severe damage in the tsunami.

But the ongoing crisis at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station will return safety to the forefront of the nuclear power debate.

The tsunami knocked out regular backup power systems at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, which rendered the plant's cooling systems unusable.

Fukushima Daiichi is believed to have released about a 10th of the radioactive material the Soviet Union's Chernobyl facility did in 1986.

Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi plant spent Thursday attempting to combat radiation leaks with little tangible progress.

The serious radiation leaks at Japan's damaged Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant have reawakened public fears about radiation sickness.

However, the disaster and nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi atomic plant continue to cause widespread disruption.

Officials raced to quell a worsening nuclear situation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex in northeastern Japan.

Televisions showed smoke billowing out of the No. 3 reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi plant shortly after 11 a. m local time.

All six of the reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant were designed by GE and were built by GE, Hitachi and Toshiba Corp.

Other big problems could also emerge, especially if officials fail to fully contain radiation from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

Three workers sustained the most serious radiation exposure yet confirmed at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear-power plant.

In his opening comments, Amano said that events at Fukushima Daiichi had enormous implications for nuclear power.

Normally, workers leaving the Fukushima Daiichi plant get tested for radiation contamination before they leave.

Authorities ordered the evacuation of about 3, 000 people from the area around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant north of Tokyo.

If Japan's parliament has seemed slow in responding to the disaster at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, that's partly by design.

As the owner of Ranbaxy, Daiichi Sankyo now shares interests with other foreign makers of generic drugs.

Renewed worries about contamination from Japan's damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear-power plant also weighed on stocks.

As I write this, it's still not clear how bad, or how big, the problems at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant will be.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. 's Fukushima Daiichi power plant in northern Japan was damaged in Friday's massive earthquake and tsunami.

The catastrophic nuclear leak at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant has left northeast Japan the hardest hit area.

The radiation spreading from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear-power plant is unprecedented.

Daiichi employees have received the highest average radiation doses of those at any Japanese plant every year over the past decade.

What radioactive elements are being released at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant?

The stricken Fukushima Daiichi facility has six reactors in total, but three were shut for maintenance when the earthquake occurred.

In this case, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex's back-up diesel-powered generators, were built below ground level.

Fukushima Daiichi's cooling systems were knocked out by the huge earthquake and tsunami that battered Japan's north-east coast on March 11.

The Daiichi plant does expose its workers to more radiation than other plants, the regulatory documents show.

The EPA said it increased monitoring after radiation leaked from Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

Many residents had held out hope they might return once Fukushima Daiichi is stabilized, but prospects are grim.

A series of explosions at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear-power complex triggered a rush of concern across many countries in the region.

Reactor unit 1 at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station experienced a mechanical failure in the emergency safety system.

A major concern was further damage to the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and other nuclear power stations in the area.

Three of six reactors at the plant operated at Fukushima Daiichi were operating when the earthquake struck.

The crisis stems from failures of the cooling systems at the reactors at the 40-year-old Fukushima Daiichi plant.

Japan says it is stepping up efforts to cool overheating fuel at the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

Fukushima Daiichi has attracted global attention since March 11, when an earthquake and tsunami crippled its backup systems.

With the cooling system crippled, reactor unit 1 at Daiichi was the first to heat up.

The reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant are boiling- water reactors.

But some diesel generators at the Fukushima Daiichi plant reportedly failed a short time later.

Daiichi's workers were exposed to more radiation than their peers at most other plants, the data show.

Early reactors, like No. 1 at Fukushima Daiichi, had an isolation condenser.

Bloomberg says more than 5800 residents have now been evacuated from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

That sequence occurred at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant two weeks ago.

Fukushima-Daiichi's unit 1 is equipped with a GE boiling water reactor with a so-called Mark 1 containment system.

Mr. Kan also said thecrsiscrisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power center is the worst Japan has ever faced.

With the Fukushima Daiichi plant unlikely to produce power again, the situation may not even be resolved by summer 2012.

s nuclear safety commission, said that a meltdown was possible at one of the two Daiichi reactors, The Associated Press reported.

On Sunday, Masataka Shimizu, president of Tokyo Electric, apologized for the problems at the Daiichi and Daini plants.

The center was cut off from both NISA headquarters in Tokyo and the Fukushima Daiichi complex.

What is the current state of damaged reactors at Fukushima Daiichi?

A fresh explosion rocked reactor 2 at the Fukushima Daiichi plant - 250km (155 miles) north-east of Tokyo - in the early hours of Tuesday.

The Fukushima Daiichi plant has seven pools dedicated to spent fuel rods.

Radiation from Japan's quake-stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has reached harmful levels, the government says.

The events at Fukushima Daiichi were exacerbated by the loss of both grid power and backup generators.

And it is sharing technicalities of the Fukushima Daiichi situation with members.

In Fukishima City, around 60 kilometers from the Fukushima Daiichi reactor complex, the leaders ate local farm products, in what Mr.

As a result, Takeda, Astellas and Daiichi Sankyo all expect a steep drop in operating profits this year.

In 2008 Daiichi Sankyo, Japan's third-biggest drug company, bought Ranbaxy, an Indian generics-maker, in part to bring the drugs home.

Fukushima Daiichi has six reactors, all built in the 1970s, and three were operating when the quake happened.

Fukushima Daiichi has six reactors in total.

If continuing to use heparin lithium-anticoagulant tubes, we should use LAP reagents of Daiichi Pure Chemicals.

From the start, the battle at Fukushima Daiichi was about water.

The Fukushima Daiichi plant is located about 150 miles from Tokyo.

Concern focused Sunday on Fukushima Daiichi's No. 3 reactor.

The Fukushima Daiichi plant is located about 240 kilometers, or 150 miles, from Tokyo.

Concerns have in the past day focused on Fukushima Daiichi's No. 3 reactor, the one that experienced Monday's explosion.

The explosion at Fukushima Daiichi's reactor No. 3 Monday morning injured 11 people.

Not only that, but the Fukushima Daiichi plant's design hails from the 1970's.

Pressure at one Daiichi reactor may have risen to 2. 1 times the designed capacity, the trade ministry said.

In March, the Pentagon sent a Global Hawk over the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan to assess the damage.

The reactor that was not cooling properly in Japan, the Fukushima Daiichi No. 1 reactor, was a boiling-water type.

'Most of the people working at 1F and 2F [Daiichi and Daini] live in this area, and they are all victims of the disaster, ' the email said.

The reactor affected by the explosion is Fukushima Daiichi 1. It was connected to the grid in November 1970, making it about 40 years old.

Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant after Japan's earthquake and tsunami in March. Photograph: Reuters