The in-depth story of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Disaster On March 11, 2011, the Japanese islands were struck by an ...

All of Japan’s 54 commercial nuclear power plants were shut down after the Fukushima disaster for safety checks and upgrades.

The government, its makeup in flux after the governing party lost seats this week, will soon need to make decisions that will ...

The No. 2 reactor at the Onagawa Nuclear Power Station straddling the town of Onagawa and the city of Ishinomaki, both in ...

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings' former chairperson, who led the emergency response after a meltdown at its Fukushima ...

A robot tasked with searching the wreckage inside Fukushima Daiichi's Unit 2 reactor has retrieved a sample of melted nuclear fuel.

A Japanese nuclear reactor that survived a massive 2011 earthquake and tsunami that badly damaged the nearby Fukushima ...

This is the first physical extraction of melted fuel from within the reactor containment vessel, a milestone in the ...

Japanese utility Tokyo Electric Power Co. said it removed nuclear fuel debris left inside a reactor in a demonstration at its Fukushima power plant, 13 years after a meltdown.

He was sued and prosecuted for his actions as chairman of the Japanese power company that ran the Fukushima nuclear facility ...

All of Japan’s 54 commercial nuclear power plants were shut down after the Fukushima disaster for safety checks and upgrades. Onagawa No. 2 was the 13th of the 33 still useable reactors to restart.

Since the 2011 disaster, no nuclear plants in eastern Japan had been turned back online. The government has promoted restarts on the grounds of addressing power shortages. However, the Sanriku ...