TEPCO

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO) has invested in a UK-based blockchain. Electron’s blockchain technology aims to establish more efficient, flexible, and reliable systems for the energy sector. Working with TEPCO, the company will explore the potential to change existing centralised structures to decentralised systems in energy transactions by using blockchain. Paul Ellis, CEO of […]

Tokyo Electric Power Corporation (TEPCO) has been granted initial safety approval to restart two reactors at a nuclear plant. It is the first approval from Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) since the Fukushima incident in 2011, which led to a meltdown of reactors following an earthquake and tsunami. The NRA said two reactors at the […]

A Japanese energy firm has announced a £500,000 equity investment in a UK battery company. Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), which serves more than 29 million homes and businesses in Japan, said it is part of its plans to grow its portfolio of innovative start-ups. Moixa offers smart battery for residential customers that helps households […]

Five firms have joined forces to build two 540MW coal-fired power plants in Fukushima. The project was launched with the aim of creating an industrial base and opening up job opportunities to support local economic recovery. They will use an integrated coal gasification combined-cycle (IGCC), which the companies claim is the “next-generation clean coal technology”. They expect it […]

A team from the International Atomic Energy Agency has completed an operational safety review of a nuclear station in Japan. The Japanese Government asked the IAEA to inspect the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station. In a 14-day review, the Operational Safety Review Team (OSART) noted a series of good practices and made recommendations to reinforce some safety measures […]

A worker at the troubled Japanese nuclear plant who fell 10 metres into an empty water tank this morning has died. He was flown to a local hospital by air ambulance for treatment but his death was later confirmed at the hospital. The plant’s owner TEPCO expressed “sincere condolences” to the family and said it will investigate […]

Japanese energy firm TEPCO said it reached a milestone in the clean-up of the Fukushima power plant, by removing all of the radioactive fuel rods from one of its reactors. The reactor is one of four badly damaged by a deadly earthquake and tsunami in March 2011. Over the weekend, the last four of 1,553 […]

Japanese nuclear energy firm Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) must pay 49 million yen (£285,000) worth of compensation to the family of a woman whose suicide was linked to the Fukushima nuclear disaster, according to reports. A district court in the Fukushima prefecture ruled TEPCO was responsible for the suicide, reported Reuters. The lawsuit was […]

A British nuclear expert is joining the international task force advising on the clean-up at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant. Fukushima was the site of a nuclear disaster in 2011 when three of its reactors went into meltdown, critically damaged by the deadly tsunami and earthquake. Owner of the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant TEPCO has a tough […]

A former worker at Japan’s stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant is reportedly suing the operator over radiation exposure. It is believed to be the first lawsuit from an employee against TEPCO following the disaster three years ago. Japanese reports claim the worker believes he was exposed to high levels of radiation due to alleged negligence […]