One of the surviving reactors at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant was loaded with fuel last summer and recently turned back on, ...

The reactor had been offline for over a decade, and the company wanted to fire it back up, but the reactor had different ...

Each party's nuclear stance may be scrutinized before the Feb. 8 election following fraud at the Hamaoka nuclear plant in ...

Hiroshima University researchers unveil a $70 smartphone radiation detector as Japan cautiously revives nuclear power.

Since the nuclear disaster, Fukushima has become a powerhouse for renewables in Japan. But the prefecture is still pursuing ...

Japan and the United Kingdom agreed on Saturday to expand cooperation on cybersecurity, energy, and critical supply chains, ...

Ionizing radiation apparently didn’t prevent some types of bacteria from breeding in the water, but astonishingly, they are ...

In Earth's highly radioactive hotspots, life can get pretty strange – from fungus that seems to thrive to an explosion of ...

Many political parties in Japan are re-evaluating nuclear power generation nearly 15 years after the country's worst nuclear accident. Still, energy policies are seen as a major issue in the Feb. 8 ...

Japan may have its first woman Prime Minister, but in the business community, breaking down decades of entrenched resistance toward female leaders is proving harder. For Chikako Tarukawa, who runs ...

On March 11, 2011, a powerful earthquake and tsunami struck Japan’s coast, triggering one of the worst nuclear disasters in history. The Fukushima Daiichi power plant was overwhelmed by the waves, ...