Friday's breakdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant lasted around three hours, Tepco said.
At 6:14 a.m.(4:14p.m EST) another explosion occurred at the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
The radiation crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has also compounded its problems.
The resulting crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi plant is the world's worst nuclear accident in a generation.
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The decision to extend was unpopular in Germany even before the radioactive leaks at the Fukushima plant.
More important and more appreciated still, is U.S. assistance in containing the damage at the Fukushima nuclear plants.
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This followed radiation leaks at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant which was damaged by the earthquake and tsunami.
The resulting disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant led to a shut-down of the country's full nuclear power-generation capacity.
According to Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), workers at the Fukushima Daiichi (FDI) nuclear power plant have been evacuated.
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The SARRY system at the Fukushima Daiichi plant is its first large-scale application.
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Japanese safety experts believed that backup generators at the Fukushima nuclear plant were more than adequate to withstand any earthquake.
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Electricity shortages are a serious problem, due to the ongoing crisis at the Fukushima plant damaged by the quake and tsunami.
At the Fukushima Daiichi plant, cooling systems failed in the aftermath of an earthquake and tsunami when electrical power was lost.
The March 11 earthquake and tsunami destroyed large parts of Japan's north-eastern coast, causing a nuclear crisis at the Fukushima power plant.
At the Fukushima nuclear power plants, fears of another explosion remain high.
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Workers struggled to contain a burning reactor at the Fukushima nuclear-power plant as the site emitted small but worrying amounts of radiation.
The triple blow of last year's earthquake, tsunami and reactor meltdown at the Fukushima-Daichi nuclear plant added to the country's gloomy economic outlook.
The crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi complex now threatens three of six reactors and four of seven pools in which nuclear waste is stored.
The full impact on people's health from last year's disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan won't be known for years, if ever.
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The Japanese government reported today that radiation levels are dangerously high inside Units 1 and 3 at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant (FDI).
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Many people were staying indoors over fears that radiation leaks at the Fukushima nuclear power plant 200 kilometers to the north are wafting over Tokyo.
"Although triggered by these cataclysmic events, the subsequent accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant cannot be regarded as a natural disaster, " it said.
Seven boiling water reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant and the neighbouring Fukushima Daini plant, both operated by Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco), shut down on Friday.
The same is true of the boom in shale gas in America, the recession in Europe and the accident at the Fukushima nuclear-power plant in Japan.
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The number of workers grappling with an increasingly likely nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan has been cut from 800 to 50.
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In real time, the International Atomic Energy Agency has been updating a terrified international audience about the situation at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.
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Problems in both those areas led to the near-meltdown of reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan, following a 9.0 earthquake and tsunami on March 11.
While an important deterioration at the Fukushima Daiichi plant could derail the uranium rally, it seems like the miners are on their way to recoup their losses.
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Driving this is the continued shutdown of all but two of Japan's nuclear reactors following the disaster at the Fukushima plant after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
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