TEPCO unveils new robot arm for nuclear debris removal
World 17:21 26/02/2026FUKUSHIMA -- Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. on Wednesday unveiled a new robot arm to be used in the project to remove nuclear fuel debris at its tsunami-crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant in northeastern Japan.
TEPCO to restart Kashiwazaki-Kariwa reactor Monday
World 16:58 06/02/2026KARIWA, NIIGATA PREF. -- Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. announced Friday that it will restart the No. 6 reactor at its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant in Niigata Prefecture, central Japan, on Monday.
TEPCO to shut reactor at world's biggest nuclear plant a day after resumption
World 16:36 23/01/2026Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) will shut down the No.6 reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power station after a malfunction was detected early on Thursday, a day after the unit went online for the first time in about 14 years.
TEPCO halts control rod removal at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa reactor
World 17:17 22/01/2026TOKYO -- Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. said Thursday it has suspended the removal of control rods from the No. 6 reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power station in Niigata Prefecture, central Japan, after an alarm sounded during the process.
TEPCO postpones restart of Kashiwazaki-Kariwa N-reactor
World 16:27 19/01/2026NIIGATA -- Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. said Monday that it has postponed the restart scheduled for Tuesday of the No. 6 reactor at its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant in Niigata Prefecture, central Japan.
Japan's TEPCO to partially restart world's biggest nuclear power plant on January 20
World 14:59 24/12/2025TOKYO -- Tokyo Electric Power Co (9501.T) plans to restart the first unit of its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant, the world's biggest, on January 20, TEPCO President Tomiaki Kobayakawa told reporters on Wednesday.
Japan says Fukushima leak worse than thought, govt joins clean-up
World 20:00 07/08/2013The revelation amounted to an acknowledgement that plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) has yet to come to grips with the scale of the catastrophe, 2 1/2 years after the plant was hit by a huge earthquake and tsunami
