Kan requests full closure of Hamaoka power plant Ap, Kyodo Prime Minister Naoto Kan said Friday he instructed a utility to shut down a nuclear power plant in central Honshu because of concerns it might be compromised by major quake or tsun…

Tepco starts flooding No. 1 reactor vessel Nuclear fuel in core must be submerged by water to cool Kyodo Tepco on Friday started increasing the amount of water it is injecting into the No. 1 reactor at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant in ho…