On March 11, 2011, the Japanese islands were struck by an earthquake of enormous force. For six minutes the ground was ...

The organisation is monitoring the decades-long process to decommission the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, which went into ...

The dismantling had been seen as a milestone in Tepco's decades-long project to decommission the stricken plant, which went ...

Japan says it will increase its reliance on nuclear energy in a major policy shift as it seeks to meet growing demand from ...

A court in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan has rejected a lawsuit demanding a local nuclear power plant stop operations.

Japan is turning to nuclear power more than a decade after the triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant. Japan is ...

This handout photo taken and released on February 14, 2025 from Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) shows the removal of the ...

The Fukushima disaster was triggered by a massive earthquake and tsunami in March 2011, leading to a reactor meltdown in the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl. The ongoing clean-up includes ...

A Japanese court has rejected the request of thousands of residents to suspend operations of two reactors at a nuclear power ...

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is monitoring Japan’s efforts to decommission the Fukushima plant after a 2011 ...

It comes as the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster from 14 years ago continues to hang over the country, conjuring painful memories. In March 2011, a 9.0-magnitude earthquake near Japan's north-east ...