Japan's nuclear watchdog on Wednesday formally disqualified a reactor in the country's north-central region from restarting, ...

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.

A nuclear reactor in northeastern Japan, hit by the devastating 2011 earthquake and tsunami, was restarted Wednesday after a ...

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

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

Russia faces the prospect of a catastrophic nuclear disaster due to the proximity of one of its atomic power plants to the frontlines. At the beginning of October, Ukrainian drones were shot down ...

Nuclear power used to account for around a quarter of Japan’s electricity mix prior to the disaster, but it was at just 6% as ...

The Kursk Nuclear Power Plant, which started operations in 1976, and the nearby city of Kurchatov share a similar original design with the Chernobyl plant and its satellite city, Pripyat. Following ...

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 ...

July 2013 New regulatory standards relating to natural disasters and terrorist attacks introduced for nuclear power plants. September 2012 Nuclear Regulation Authority established. July 2012 The ...