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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 568

Fukushima

Rafael Grossi, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), speaks during an interview ahead of the 78th United Nations General Assembly in New York, on September 18, 2023. (Ed Jones/AFP)
September 18, 2023, 8:15 pm
IAEA chief warns of consequences if Iran does not reaccredit nuclear inspectors
Rafael Grossi also says he’s concerned over military build-up at Russian-occupied nuclear plant in Ukraine, but unruffled over Putin-Kim Jong Un meet, Fukishima wastewater release
By Maria Danilova
Israel's national baseball team at a team practice in Tel Aviv, January 14, 2020. (AP/Ariel Schalit)
June 28, 2021, 8:03 pm
US to open Olympic baseball against Israel on July 30
Host Japan will kick off the tournament with match against the Dominican Republic at Fukushima on July 28
By AP
In this November 22, 2018, file photo, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Yukiya Amano of Japan addresses the media during a news conference after a meeting of the IAEA board of governors at the International Center in Vienna, Austria. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)
July 22, 2019, 1:35 pm
UN nuclear watchdog chief Yukiya Amano, who oversaw Iran treaty, dies at 72
Japanese diplomat succumbs to cancer after heading IAEA for a decade, plunging agency into uncertainty at highly sensitive time
By Kirsten Grieshaber and KYOKO METZLER
(Above and at article top:) The military wing of the Gaza-based Islamic Jihad terror group releases a video threatening rocket attacks on the nuclear reactor in Dimona and other sensitive sites in Israel, May 4, 2019. (Screen grab)
June 24, 2019, 4:01 pm
Israel’s Dimona nuclear reactor isn’t Chernobyl, but does have vulnerabilities
A disaster at Israel’s reactor would be far less catastrophic than the 1986 meltdown, but the core is being kept in service far longer than intended, and experts warn that’s risky
By Judah Ari Gross
Pluristem workers process placenta for the company's cell-based therapy products (Courtesy)
June 26, 2018, 3:38 pm
Study shows placenta treatment effective against radiation sickness
Haifa-based Pluristem has been working with researchers in Fukushima, the site of nuclear meltdowns in 2011, to treat acute radiation syndrome
By ToI Staff
Firefighters check a house damaged by an earthquake in Ibaraki City, north of Osaka prefecture on June 18, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / JIJI PRESS / STR)
June 18, 2018, 6:26 am
At least 3 killed, dozens hurt as earthquake rocks Japan’s Osaka
Nine-year-old girl crushed by wall at her school when 6.1 magnitude temblor hits Japan’s second largest city during morning commute; no tsunami warning
By AFP
In this Feb. 10, 2016 file photo, a member of the media tour group wearing a protective suit and a mask looks at the No. 3 reactor building at Tokyo Electric Power Co's (TEPCO) tsunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. (Toru Hanai/Pool Photo via AP, File)
August 10, 2017, 12:53 pm
‘Unexploded WWII bomb’ found at Japan Fukushima nuclear plant
Construction workers uncover 3-foot explosive believed dropped by US near decommissioned facility’s reactors
By AFP
Pluristem workers process placenta for the company's cell-based therapy products (Courtesy)
December 4, 2015, 2:12 pm
Japan turns to Israeli tech to treat radiation disease
Pluristem’s stem-cell technology may hold cure for victims affected by the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster
By David Shamah
Rescuers evacuate an injured person near the Bataclan concert hall in central Paris, early on November 14, 2015. (AFP PHOTO/MIGUEL MEDINA)
November 16, 2015, 6:04 pm
Panicked Parisians turn to Facebook made-in-Israel tech
Safety Check, which Parisians used to check in with each other amid terror onslaught, is one of Facebook Israel’s ‘Internet of good’ projects
By David Shamah
A first responder wears a StemRad belt (Screenshot)
August 3, 2015, 6:17 pm
Next stop Mars, with Israeli radiation protection
Together with Lockheed-Martin, StemRad is developing an enhanced version of its protective belt
By David Shamah
The Tokyo skyline (CC BY-SA/Kakidai )
May 25, 2015, 10:01 am
Quake rattles buildings in Tokyo
Risk of tsunami not expected from 5.3 magnitude temblor; no injuries or damage reported
By AFP
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (photo credit: TTTNIS/Wikimedia Commons)
June 7, 2013, 8:57 am
Japan, France to expand cooperation on nuclear tech
Despite 2011 disaster at Fukushima, Japanese PM keen on exporting country’s atomic advancements
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un uses binoculars to view South Korean territory from an observation post on Jangjae Islet, in March 2013. (photo credit: AP/KCNA via KNS)
May 2, 2013, 10:17 am
N. Korea plutonium reactor said nearing completion
Satellite photos show finishing touches being put on light-water reactor at Yongbyon nuclear complex
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