Nuclear
UK and Japan sign nuclear energy robotics alliance
Research collaboration will see robotics used for Fukushima decommissioning and also advances in fusion
Waste Management & Decommissioning
IAEA Reviews water storage at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station
The IAEA has welcomed progress made by Japan in preparing to dispose of large amounts of treated water stored at Fukushima Daiichi.
Renewables
Japanese launch world’s largest-class hydrogen production unit
A Japanese consortium has launched the Fukushima Hydrogen Energy Research Field (FH2R), a renewable energy-powered 10 MW-class hydrogen production unit, the largest-class in the world.
Asia
Drone to provide new details of Fukushima radiation
A drone carrying radiation-mapping technology is to provide new details of the contamination inside the reactor building at Japan's damaged Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant.
Asia
Japan’s big bet on hydrogen energy
Japan is backing hydrogen energy as a means of ending the country’s energy security crisis since Fukushima.
Equipment
Bright side of nuclear plant closures for E.ON and EnBW
Two German utilities hit particularly hard by the decision of Angela Merkel’s government to phase out nuclear power post-Fukushima are now eyeing opportunities in the lucrative nuclear decommissioning market.
Asia
SoftBank and Invernergy team up to develop Japanese solar plants
SoftBank Energy has teamed up with the Japanese subsidiary of Chicago-based Invernergy for the joint development, financing, construction and operation of two solar power projects located in the Nagano and Fukushima prefectures of Japan
Biomass
Micro-biomass CHP set for Japanese resort.
A health resort in Japan’s Fukushima prefecture has inaugurated a small-scale biomass power plant.
Asia
Tepco hope for breakthrough in nuclear clean-up
Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) believes it may have made a breakthrough in the clean-up of the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
Asia
Japanese to loan $123bn to Fukushima operator
The Japanese government is to increase the size of the loan being granted to Fukushima operator Tepco to $123bn, more than a third higher than initially planned.
