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TEPCO, Nuclear and Fukushima

Nuclear lapses overshadow reactor restarts in post-Fukushima Japan

This month, one of Japan’s biggest utilities admitted to manipulating data to downplay the effect of a large earthquake on a nuclear power plant under review for reopening.

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Nuclear reactor owned by Fukushima plant operator TEPCO suspends hours-old restart

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TEPCO to shut reactor at world's biggest nuclear plant a day after resumption

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Japan restarts nuclear power plant almost 15 years since Fukushima disaster

The world's biggest nuclear power plant has been restarted for the first time since the 2011 Fukushima disaster, its Japanese operator confirmed, despite persistent safety concerns among residents.

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Japan suspends restart of world's biggest nuclear plant

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Fukushima nuclear plant operator restarts reactor at another plant, reviving safety concerns

New-wave reactors are the face of an American nuclear renaissance. Some experts are sounding alarms

Small nuclear reactors are pitched as cheaper, safer, faster and easier to finance than their conventional counterparts. Hype around them is building fast, but some experts warn it ignores fundamental

MIT Technology Review

How next-generation nuclear reactors break out of the 20th-century blueprint

Commercial nuclear reactors all work pretty much the same way. Atoms of a radioactive material split, emitting neutrons. Those bump into other atoms, splitting them and causing them to emit more neutrons, which bump into other atoms, continuing the chain reaction.

Federal government to send Kairos Power enriched uranium for reactors

The federal government is sending enriched uranium to a nuclear company that aims to build next-gen salt-cooled reactors in Oak Ridge.