Japan on Monday marked 13 years since a massive earthquake and tsunami hit the country’s northern coasts. Nearly 20,000 ...

Japanese officials plan to start releasing treated but still slightly radioactive wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima ...

The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster A Nuclear Engineer Reacts to The Infographics Show. A nuclear engineer reacts to the Fukushima ...

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster was a series of equipment failures, nuclear meltdowns and releases of radioactive ...

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There’s a good reason for all that protection — I’m inside the cavernous top of the Unit 3 reactor in the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Yes, that Fukushima Daiichi, site of the world’s worst ...

On 11 March 2011, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck northeastern Japan, triggering a tsunami that devastated coastal communities in Tohoku and caused the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster. Fifteen ...

According to Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) spokesman Keisuke Matsuo, “the cooling water level fell as much as 70 centimeters (27 inches) in the primary containment chamber of the Unit 1 reactor ...

After the earthquake, the restoration of lifelines was not progressing well. The essential water supply remained cut off in ...

A Japanese court on Wednesday turned down a class action lawsuit seeking damages from nuclear plant makers Toshiba, Hitachi and GE over the Fukushima meltdown disaster, the plaintiffs, one of the ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) on Wednesday received an initial safety approval from Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) to restart two reactors at the world's biggest nuclear ...