Meanwhile, the rest of the workforce which has occupied the plant since the dispute began more than four weeks ago, say they will wait until the agreement is ratified at national level and redundancy payments begin before they leave the site.
He added that it was the first time so many facilities had been affected by electrical failure at the same time since the plant was brought under control in December 2011.
Even though the pumps were not essential since the plant is in a scheduled refueling shut down, and plant operators even moved a portable pump into the threatened building in case the regular pump had been submerged, the sense was that things were amiss.
The Daiichi plant has had 15 accidents since 2005, the most of any Japanese plant with more than three reactors, according to an analysis of the data by the Journal.
Tsunehisa Katsumata on Wednesday was speaking to reporters in Tokyo for the first time since problems at the plant surfaced.
The Minister said that the government had been working closely with the company since them to keep the plant open and retain as many staff as possible.
In the two and a half years since he left the plant, he's hardly ever come back here.
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The Environment Agency confirmed it had received fresh complaints about the plant since it re-opened.
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Emergency workers have been unable to enter any of the damaged reactor buildings at the plant since then.
If confirmed, the leak at the underground storage pool would be the third leak discovered at the plant since Saturday.
Smith says the plant extinctions that have occurred since the first Earth Summit in 1992 have all been entirely avoidable.
Since the plant closed, Janesville, which sits almost at the center of a ring of major cities, including Milwaukee, Chicago, St.
Union convener Chris Bond, who has worked at the plant since 1979 said the 1970s at the car factory was "quite eventful".
Several hundred South Korean managers and other staff have gradually returned from the plant since North Korea blocked inbound traffic on April 3.
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It also allowed IAEA inspectors to enter its heavy water plutonium production facility in Arak - a largely insignificant concession since the plant won't be operational for two years.
Events are being held in the Highlands to mark 27 years since the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster.
Until the FDA approved the Genzyme plant, Fabry patients were clamoring for an alternative, given that Genzyme had instituted a controversial rationing program in the US. Many of these patients were hopeful the FDA would speed approval of the Shire biologic, since the progress surrounding the Genzyme plant was unclear.
The fact that there is any power shortage this year after all the railroad building and power plant construction since 2004 undercuts the message that China is reforming its economy and seeking to rebalance it.
Engineers have since stabilised the plant but years of work lie ahead to fully contain the disaster and tackle its effects.
It said the company had created a hostile environment and discriminating conditions of employment for the men, who had learning difficulties and worked at the West Liberty plant under the company's oversight since the 1970s.
It will be the first time journalists have toured the area since the 11 March earthquake and tsunami wrecked the plant, causing partial meltdowns in three of its reactors.
Countries including the U.S., U.K and Korea have ordered the evacuation of their citizens in Japan within a 80-kilometer radius of the Fukushima nuclear power plant, which has been leaking radiation since the massive earthquake on March 11.
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Very low levels of radioactive iodine believed to be linked to the crippled plant have since been detected at Dounreay.
The former workers have picketed the gates of the plant every day since they walked out 18 months ago.
Such solutions are particularly important, since taking apart the plant and removing the melted fuel could take another 30 or 40 years.
It is unlikely, however, that North Korea would be able to operate much of the plant by itself since power and raw materials are provided from the South.
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Over the years since its main enrichment plant at Natanz was discovered, Iran has volunteered little information to inspectors, belatedly owning up, including to past illicit uranium and plutonium work, only when presented with hard evidence.
Fining the company, Sheriff Lindsay Foulis said that he took account of the change of ownership and of the steps taken since to improve health and safety at the Perthshire storage plant.
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