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

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, ...

Debris and mud cover a city in Japan flattened by a massive tsunami in March 2011, caused by the energy released by a ...

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

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

Despite public opposition and the memory of the Fukushima disaster, Japan's government has approved a new energy plan aiming ...

An alert from a monitoring system was triggered while workers were starting up reactor number six at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa ...

Officials said there was no safety issue from the glitch that occurred after TEPCO restarted the No. 6 reactor at the ...

The restart, initially scheduled for Tuesday, had been pushed back after another technical issue related to the control rods' ...

Japan's punk rock lawyer Akihiro Shima was belting out songs at a packed bar in Tokyo, sporting a mohawk and bright-red jacket, nine days after filing a landmark climate lawsuit.

Japan’s long and controversial effort to revive its nuclear power sector suffered another setback this week after Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (Tepco) shut down a reactor at the ...

The setback occurred hours after one of the world’s largest nuclear complexes restarted, ending more than a decade of ...