Fukushima

Initial measurements by the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization had put the Fukushima figure at half that of Chernobyl.

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

Critics of Tepco, the company at the heart of the Fukushima nuclear accident, say its actual capacity is higher than it lets on.

They might have got through comparatively unscathed, as did the reactors at Fukushima Dai-ni, a similar plant farther along the coast.

On Saturday they were shown around the Fukushima site itself and were able to take the first pictures inside the damaged plant.

East Power spokesman said the system will help the East in January next year before the power off Fukushima nuclear power plant safety.

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

But in at least three of the ponds at the Fukushima site, that routine cooling no longer seems to be happening.

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. '

Mr. Jaczko said the U. S. was monitoring at least four of the reactors at the Fukushima plant, and outlined serious problems.

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.

Sarkozy said those calling for all nuclear power plants to be shut down in the wake of the Fukushima crisis should be more realistic.

The equipment used in Tokyo Electric Power Co. 's Fukushima plants now under stress is at least a generation older.

More recently, the company got caught up in the failure of GE-designed reactors at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant.

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

They've been ordered to leave their homes in a wide area around the nuclear plant at Fukushima.

There is no evidence of contaminated food from Fukushima prefecture, where the plant is located, reaching other countries, he said.

However, he said there was no evidence of contaminated food from Fukushima reaching other countries.

After all, at the time even journalists driving close to Fukushima were able to get petrol on the main highways.

Looking at forceful and vigorous brush strokes and characters in the letter, Kayo Fukushima was full of joy on her face.

The nuclear crisis also means no economic activity can take place in the 30km evacuation zone around the Fukushima plant.

The IAEA said there appeared to be high levels of contamination in the soil and vegetation in the Fukushima prefecture.

The nihilism at the heart of this nuclear threat to humanity lies not inside Fukushima 1, but within the national security mindset.

The first nuclear power plant in Fukushima, said the news of the nuclear power plant normal, not abnormal.

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

Now people do not know what fish are the waters near Fukushima, how will the migration.

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.

There was more bad news from the Fukushima plant today, as scientists confirmed they had found Plutonium in nearby soil.

Wednesday, winds over the Fukushima nuclear-power plant gusted out to sea, keeping levels close to normal.

But in terms of its geographical reach, Fukushima is still, thankfully, a long way behind Chernobyl.

Also hazy: just how much exposure Berkshire's reinsurance operations have to the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan.

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.

Outside of Fukushima, the full scale of the damage from the earthquake and tsunami continued to unfold.

Since the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant is to be decommissioned, Japan will need new sources of electricity.

It seemed the Japanese were prepared to try anything to cool the damaged reactors at the Fukushima nuclear plant.

Speaking on Russian radio, Mr Kiriyenko said he was impressed by the resilience of the 40-year-old Fukushima plant.

Even in the best case scenario from this point onward, is the Fukushima site now a radioactive waste dump for years to come?

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

In total, it looks like the US government has placed a $55 billion bet on an industry that could meltdown thanks to the Fukushima incident.

Amano said the crisis Fukushima presented to the IAEA and the international community a major challenge.

As in the current Fukushima disaster, there was no fuel to cremate huge numbers of bodies.

Malaysia, which had hoped to switch on its first nuclear station in 2021, will reconsider after reviewing the crisis at Fukushima.

Among the growing complaints, TEPCO was accused of ignoring warnings that the Fukushima plant was in a precarious location.

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.

It does not come from Fukushima, and Singapore is able to check all the items to make sure the food is safe.

When Fukushima happened in a high technology country like Japan, it simply was not in her projections.

Indeed, she has been shocked to hear of families feeding their children Fukushima produce out of similar concerns.

People living between twenty and thirty kilometers of Fukushima have now been advised to leave the area.

"Cooling water" , "repair the circuit" is the light of day the two sides deal with the two main Fukushima nuclear power plant accident.

China Eastern Airlines said it had suspended flights to Fukushima but its other flights, 50 a day, are operating normally.

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

Less than 100 kilometers from the Fukushima nuclear power plant Hitachi City, Ibaraki Prefecture, is one of Hitachi's production base.

In the case of nuclear energy, the Fukushima power plant meltdown was the latest catastrophe to scare us off.

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

Sweden and Australia urged nationals to stay at least 80 kilometers away from the damaged Fukushima plant.

Taiwan may be the first country to come to that conclusion, post-Fukushima. But it won't be the last.

The fallout reached four continents, just as the jet stream could swiftly carry Fukushima fallout.

'The Fukushima accident will have consequences, it's clear, ' he said.

The news follows allegations that Fukushima was crippled by the earthquake, not the ensuing tsunami as previously thought.

images from Fukushima, and the sense of floundering haplessness, will not be forgotten even if final figures reveal little damage to health.

Before the Fukushima disaster, nuclear power was being rebranded as a green form of energy.

As the battle to make safe the Fukushima nuclear reactors continues, the political fallout is spreading across Japan and around the world.

In April, the Japanese government, upon the soil test results, limited parts of Fukushima Prefecture farmers planting rice.

U. S. Geological Survey said the quake epicenter was located 86 km southeast of the city Fukushima, focal depth about 10 km.

Food shipments from four prefectures around the Fukushima nuclear power plant have been suspended.

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

Fires, explosions and a partial melting of cores have taken place at four of the six reactors at the Fukushima nuclear center.

IAEA chief Yukio Amano gave an update on the Fukushima disaster as he opened the meeting on Monday.

Even after Fukushima, indeed, Areva still urgently needs to bring down the cost of its EPR, argues a Paris-based adviser to the industry.

"The label 'domestic-grown' doesn't really have the same stature, " especially after Fukushima, she said.

On its website, the industry-backed World Nuclear Association speaks of a "nuclear renaissance" despite Fukushima.

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

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

So it's not surprising to see some of the same instincts playing out at Fukushima.

In April, three Fukushima residents started supplementing government monitoring by doing their own testing around the city.

Similarly, the world will not learn what happened inside the Fukushima reactors for years, assuming things do not get worse.

Japan's government is struggling to pass its bail-out of Tokyo Electric Power Company, owner of the doomed Fukushima nuclear plant.

An explosion had blown the roof off one of the reactor buildings in Fukushima, heightening fears of large-scale radiation exposure.

Fukushima county government had already asked the central government to allow to set precautionary area.

Indeed, as we were compiling this podcast, reports were coming in of a new explosion at the stricken Fukushima nuclear power complex.

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.

The plutonium at Fukushima isn't in the air, but inhaling about 20 milligrams of plutonium would probably kill you within a few months.

Modern commercial nuclear power plants like the Fukushima plant use defense-in-depth safety measures.

The plutonium at Fukushima isn't in the air, but inhaling about 20 milligrams of plutonium would probably kill you within a few months.

Modern commercial nuclear power plants like the Fukushima plant use defense-in-depth safety measures.

Unfortunately, there is no question that radioactive substances are leaking into the atmosphere from the Fukushima nuclear power plant.

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

On Monday, the winds at the Fukushima power plant and the Onagawa power plant will generally be out of the north to northwest.

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

Tens of thousands have lost homes, businesses and confidence in their children's health as a result of the disaster at Fukushima.

That was before news of an explosion, and warnings of a possible "meltdown" , at the Fukushima nuclear power plant.

The nuclear crisis at Fukushima broadens the economic danger in at least three ways.

Japan, a world leader in technology, believed the Fukushima plant was strong enough to withstand a worst-case scenario.

Japan, a world leader in technology, believed the Fukushima plant was strong enough to withstand a worst-case scenario.

The radiation leak at Fukushima has changed all that.

Two workers at Fukushima have so far received radiation burns and 17 have been exposed to levels of radiation considered unsafe.

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

The bottom line here is that Fukushima and Chernobyl are comparable, and a comparison really helps underscore the differences.

Michinori Watanabe of Miyagi prefecture, about 100 miles from Fukushima in northern Japan, said the same thing.

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

As they stood at attention, they were addressed by Nobuaki Takagi, a regional division chief for the Fukushima prefecture police department.

In the aftermath of Fukushima, expect to hear that more often from the nuclear sector.

Fukushima prefecture also issued a strong warning Monday about high radiation levels in tap water.

Fukushima prefecture also issued a strong warning Monday about high radiation levels in tap water.

The shoes are part of a project to help rebuild Fukushima.

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

Ms Fukushima says she thinks more are preparing to leave.

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

FORTUNE -- The Obama administration has remained steadfast in its support of nuclear power, despite the disaster at the Fukushima plant.

Mizuho Fukushima, SDP head, said she was "very glad" there had been no "hasty decision" .

Executives at Tokyo Electric Power and government officials have been wrangling for weeks over who should pay for the accident at Fukushima.

But Merkel said that Japan's helplessness in the face of the Fukushima disaster made her rethink the risks of the technology.

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

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

She said her family is living with relatives in Fukushima City, about 60 miles inland.

Strong aftershocks continue to rock the region, and a magnitude-7 quake temporarily disrupted cooling at the Fukushima plant last week.

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

Already Japan's fuel imports have surged since the Fukushima disaster, driving the country's trade deficit to record high levels.

Compensation must be paid, the recovery work at Fukushima must go on and the lights in Tokyo must stay on.

Nuclear regulators in the United States say they've been asked to provide water and other resources to the Fukushima plant.

Workers at the Fukushima plant are pumping seawater, treated with boron, to try to cool the overheating reactor cores.

Fukushima's nuclear reactors had been built to withstand the worst, including earthquakes and tsunamis.

Elegba is firmly of the view that blame for the Fukushima accident should be allocated to nature rather than human error.

The multi-reactor Fukushima atomic power plant is now relying on battery power, which will only last around eight hours.

Another factor likely to increase emissions is the decision by some governments to abandon nuclear energy, following the Fukushima disaster.

Ironically, not all Greens share the conclusion the German government drew from Fukushima.

When you talk to the industry, the general view is that [Fukushima] is going to cause a hiatus.

Curbing the world's dependence on fossil fuels has always been difficult. The agonies of Fukushima will make it even harder.

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

'There was a lack of unity, ' said Goshi Hosono, the cabinet official overseeing the Fukushima disaster.

The Fukushima radiation leaks forced thousands of residents to abandon their homes and contaminated crops and meat.

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

And there is potentially three times as much material to contain in Fukushima as there was in Chernobyl.

We stated that the Fukushima plant had received alien assistance, as it would have arrived at that point or worse without such assistance.

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.

Before the Fukushima meltdowns, nuclear energy powered up to 30% of the country's electricity.

After days of begging for help, many citizens stranded in evacuation shelters near the Fukushima plant were bused to Tokyo for refuge.

Quince is being tested to see if it can operate at Fukushima.

In post-Fukushima Japan, nuclear power would be a much more emotive issue.

"Saving Fukushima requires not just money and effort, but also faith, " he said. "There is no point if only older people go back. "

Report also pointed out that the first nuclear power plant Unit 2 of Fukushima fuel once again completely out of the water.

Also up for discussion will be restrictions on Japanese food imports imposed after the nuclear disaster in Fukushima.

Japan says levels of radiation contamination in water inside part of the Fukushima nuclear power plant have increased sharply.

According to Fukushima said the county government, of which 67 have been detected radiation.

And then, just when it seems stupid beyond mention, it's the first place we find news of a Fukushima reactor melting down.

After the Fukushima disaster earlier this year, some fish were detected with high levels of radiation off the Japanese coast.

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

That comes after confirmation by the central government that some beef from contaminated cattle in Fukushima has apparently been consumed.

That's an important lesson for Fukushima too, where the plant operator and government have already begun discussing compensation schemes.

Japan is now halting the sale of raw milk from Fukushima prefecture and spinach from Ibaraki prefecture.

Bad weather forced Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan to cancel a planned visit to emergency workers near the Fukushima plant.

The LDP should be in the stocks, being pelted with Fukushima's radioactive vegetables, not relishing a return to government.

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

There is a risk of a second explosion at the quake-hit Fukushima power station, Japanese officials have said.

Radioactive water from Japan's stricken nuclear power plant seeped into the sea around Fukushima.

However, this test a radioactive cesium and whether the association is also Fukushima nuclear power plant accident is under investigation.

Military and emergency efforts have been focused on the tsunami-ravaged regions or at the nuclear plant in Fukushima.

The tremor was also felt in Tokyo as well as Fukushima, Chiba, Kanagawa and Shizuoka prefectures.

Japan's nuclear safety authorities raised the alert level at the Fukushima plant last week to a maximum seven.

Sitting in his office in downtown Kiev, Yuri Andreyev has been glued to news of the widening crisis at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant.

For sure, people near the damaged nuclear complex in Fukushima are worried about their health and their food supply.

Radiation around the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant has decreased from peak levels.

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

An official of the agency said Friday the agency raised the rating of the Fukushima nuclear crisis on the International Nuclear Event Scale.

without any binding obligation that these plants will have implemented the lessons learned from the Fukushima accident before they operate.

VOA reporters managed to travel to Fukushima by plane, but many airports, roads and railways remain flooded or damaged throughout Japan.

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

For one, the fiasco at Fukushima Dai-ichi has revealed, again, the cosy ties between the nuclear industry and government.

Workers also sprayed water on the No. 3 reactor at the Fukushima facility, one of the most critical of the plant's six.

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

Radiation leaking from the Fukushima plant has forced 80, 000 people living within a 12-mile (20-kilometer) radius to leave their homes.

The company used two different designs for safeguarding its 10 reactors in Fukushima.

The company used two different designs for safeguarding its 10 reactors in Fukushima.

Those who live and work near the star-crossed Fukushima nuclear power facility have borne an even greater burden.

Engineers were desperately pumping sea water into all three units at Fukushima in an effort to cool them down.

Fukushima Prefecture (Dow Jones)--Friday's giant earthquake and tsunami have caused hardship for many Japanese in the past few days.

In response to the meltdowns at the Fukushima nuclear-power plant, much of the country's nuclear capacity has been suspended.

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

These products are already checked for radiation under EU regulations, independent of the Fukushima tragedy.

Several Japanese cities hosted anti-nuclear demonstrations after Fukushima, but there were relatively few participants.

Phil Gamlen, head of corporate learning partnerships at MBS, does not see Fukushima as altering this demand.

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

The public, concerned about post-Fukushima radiation in the air and in their food, appears to support him.

Nor is the Fukushima crisis anything other than horrible: dangerous, traumatic and disruptive. I'm urging perspective, not complacency.

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

The personal transformations are more subtle outside Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima, the three prefectures that have suffered the most.

A farmer drains milk into a pit in Iitate, in Fukushima, northeastern Japan, in this photo taken by Yomiuri Shimbun on March 23, 2011.

So how worried should we be about the unfolding disaster at Fukushima? Here are some key questions to ask in the hours and days to come.

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

Tepco confidently built six nuclear reactors the Fukushima complex overlooking a fault zone, where earthquakes and tsunamis can happen.

After the earthquake, Fukushima nuclear power plant workers left the scene.

The two countries agreed to proceed with the facility, using Japanese technology, despite the Fukushima disaster.

Nissan Motor Co. , meanwhile, suspended operations at five factories in Fukushima, Tochigi and Kanagawa prefectures.

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

Besides the Fukushima reactors knocked out by the tsunami, several more are being taken offline for safety inspections.

Even before Fukushima, though, this was looking increasingly unlikely.

The frustration of not knowing is the subtext of a lot of what happens in Fukushima these days.

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.

America, which buys one-sixth of Japanese farm exports, has put products from Fukushima and three other prefectures on a watch list.

Thus far, the Consumer Protection Department's hotline has still heard far more from concerned citizens regarding the disaster in Fukushima.

The U. S. Airforce is sending an autonomous aircraft to image the damage at the Fukushima Dai-1 nuclear plant.

"The deal could create jobs and revitalize Aizu, " the newspaper Fukushima Minpo said in an editorial. "It's a ray of hope for Fukushima. "

The accident at Fukushima was a test for the global environmental movement.

Ironically water--or lack of it--has been the real story at Fukushima for the past four days.

We are going to spark public debates with a vengeance as soon as the reports from Fukushima are out.

The obvious mothership over Fukushima was doing more than monitoring and assisting in preventing a greater catastrophe.

Water was also a principal concern for the residents of Sukagawa in Fukushima prefecture.

Particularly after what's happened in Fukushima, locals are extremely worried about a nuclear incident in Jaitapur.

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

Some even quietly liken Fukushima to the devastating asteroid strike that doomed the dinosaurs and gave rise to more advanced species.

Gates suggested there's much more potential for nuclear energy, despite the recent disaster with Japan's Fukushima reactor.

The natural disaster also triggered the meltdown of reactors at a nuclear power plant in Fukushima prefecture.

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

The crisis at the damaged Fukushima Dai-Ichi Nuclear Power Station in northern Japan has raised worries about radiation risks.

One engineer who has played a front-line role in helping cool the meltdown of Fukushima's three reactors spoke unwittingly to The Economist.

But others believe the temblor itself cannot yet be ruled out as a contributing factor in the Fukushima crisis.

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

Fires, explosions and a partial melting of cores have taken place atfour4 of thesix6 reactors at the Fukushima nuclear center.

Tokyo widened a ban on shipments of leaf vegetables from areas around Fukushima on Monday after radiation in samples exceeded legal limits.

Thank you for making a special trip to come and see us in Fukushima Prefecture.

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

This article is part of a Spotlight on Nuclear power after Fukushima.

The shelves of the Family Mart convenience store in Kagamiishi, Fukushima Prefecture, were wiped clean, save for alcohol and condiments.

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

Workers fled the reactor at the Fukushima complex when a reading showed water 10 million times more radioactive than normal.

Wreckage in a supermarket in Yabuki, in southern Fukushima Prefecture after the earthquake.

On Thursday morning, helicopters dropped water on the stricken reactors at the Fukushima nuclear power plant.

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

It's reported that some nuclear radiation from Fukushima of Japan has gone into the sea.

Mrs Merkel knows that German nukes are no more dangerous now than they were before the Fukushima explosions.

In light of Fukushima, the certificate may now have a greater emphasis on crisis management and thinking in emergency situations.

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

When the reactor at Fukushima shut down, it should have been kept cool by water pumped through the core.

Some outside experts have questioned whether the initial timetable for Fukushima was too optimistic.

Debris was strewn in Namie, within the exclusion zone around Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant.

Map information to the center of Fukushima Prefecture for the serious radioactive contamination in some locations exceeded.

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.

Fukushima first nuclear power plant radiation leak, hospital security slow, inadequate response, has been criticized.

He mentions concerns about radiation from the meltdown of reactors at the Fukushima-1 nuclear plant, triggered by the natural disaster.

Fisheries aren't operating in the 20-kilometer exclusion zone around the Fukushima plant.