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Stricken Japan nuke plant struggles to keep staff

"We're headed toward a real crisis," said Ryuichi Kino, a free-lance writer and photographer who has authored books about the nuclear disaster and has reported on TEPCO intensively since March 2011.

Hundreds seek compensation in Japan nuclear crisis

They demanded that the plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co., pay them an additional 70 million yen ($690,000) in damages.

Crippled Japanese nuclear plant suffers blackout

TEPCO says the reactors were unaffected, and it plans to restore power to the pool cooling systems as soon as it determines the cause.

Slow recovery frustrates Japanese tsunami, quake victims on 2nd anniversary

Hundreds of them filed a lawsuit Monday demanding compensation from the government and the plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co., or TEPCO, for their suffering and losses.

Washington state engineers reflect on Fukushima nuclear disaster response

With no functioning cooling system, the Tokyo Electric Power Co. resorted to pouring millions of gallons of seawater into the reactors to cool them.

Japan nuke plant progressing in fuel removal plans

Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. plans to remove melted fuel from the wrecked reactors within 10 years, but full decommissioning is expected to take decades.

Japan's TEPCO gears up for US shale gas imports

TEPCO plans to buy 400,000 tons of LNG a year, beginning in 2017, from the Cameron project through trading house Mitsui & Co.

US sailors sue Japanese utility over radiation

The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in San Diego last week against Tokyo Electric Power Co., which is owned by the Japanese government.

Nuke plant utility: Some safety measures neglected

At the same time, TEPCO focused on small safety concerns to avoid minor troubles that could have triggered inspections or reactor stoppages, the task force said.

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