A government body conducted analyses on the damage tsunamis of various scale would inflict on a nuclear power plant, according to documents made public on Sunday, adding to allegations that Japan and its largest utility failed to heed warnings.

The latest revelation, reported by the Mainichi daily, emerged as the government prepares to help Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) compensate victims of the

Japanese officials are readying a new approach o stabilising a reactor at a nuclear plant crippled by an earthquake and tsunami after discovering a leak from he containment vessel of enough radioactive water to fill an Olympic swimming pool. The discovery has forced officials to abandon heir original plan to bring under control the No.

Bill for independent regulatory authority in monsoon session of Parliament

The Central government is set to form an independent regulatory authority, which will be responsible for nuclear safety and enforcement of safety standards.

Japanese power firm Chubu Electric on Monday agreed to shut a nuclear plant until it can be better defended against the type of massive tsunami that in March triggered the worst atomic crisis in 25 years.

The temporary shutdown of Hamaoka, which supplies power to central Japan -- home to many manufacturers including Toyota Motor Corp -- has added to concerns about power shortages following the

The Association of Friends of Japan (AFJ), Pune, handed over a cheque ofRs55,051 to the Mumbai-based consul general of Japan, T Mochida, as part of their Japan tsunami relief fund last week.

In a press statement, AFJ said that the monies had been collected from common Puneites.

A Japanese nuclear power plant has decided to halt its operations in a potentially unstable seismic zone. The Chubu Electric Power Company (CEPC) made the critical decision on Monday following Prime Minister Naoto Kan's intervention late last week.

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Fukushima: On a windy, chilly day near the top of a volcano known as

TEPCO also started increasing the amount of water being injected into the troubled No.1 reactor core as it prepared to flood the unit's primary containment vessel to cool the fuel inside in a stable manner
Scrambling hard to contain its worst atomic crisis, Japan is mulling setting up of a huge underground tank in the compound of Fukushima nuclear plant to prevent contamination from seeping into

An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.3 hit near Cilacap in Central Java on Tuesday, the Indonesian earthquake monitoring agency said, adding that no tsunami warning had been issued.

An official at the agency said the centre of the quake was offshore and he estimated there would not be much damage.