Japan's nuclear plants faced global scrutiny after the devastating 2011 tsunami triggered by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake.

The recovery of Fukushima Prefecture cannot be considered complete until the disposal of soil generated from radiation ...

Japanese officials plan to start releasing treated but still slightly radioactive wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi ... accident to category 7, the highest level on the International ...

U.S. Army aviators and Japanese troops are participating in Nankai Rescue, a U.S.-Japan disaster drill that kicked off Monday ...

I visited Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in late October 2024. Soon after the 2011 nuclear accident, I was the head of a Japanese newspaper team reporting on the situation, but this was ...

reactor decommissioning at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station has hit a snag, and many residents are still forced to remain evacuated due to high radiation doses in disaster ...

Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami devastated Japan, causing immense loss of life and property while highlighting the critical ...

Japanese utilities restarted two additional nuclear reactors in 2024 that had been suspended from operations in response to the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi accident, taking the total number of restarted ...

By this science and technology chronicle, one can see attitudes toward risk of disaster have changed. In 1905, the industrial ...

Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru visited Tokyo Electric Power Company's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on December ...

The nuclear accident released vast amounts of radioactive ... The electricity generated by the Fukushima Daiichi plant was primarily consumed in metropolitan areas, especially the Tokyo region.