Japan’s nuclear watchdog on Wednesday formally disqualified a reactor in the country’s north-central region for a restart, ...

This is the first reactor barred in Japan under stricter safety protocols adopted after the Fukushima disaster.

The nuclear fuel sample, the size of a grain of rice, was placed into a secure container Thursday, marking the end of the ...

A robot has delved into the radioactive ruins of Fukushima to retrieve a tiny chunk of spent nuclear fuel. It’s the first ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A device to remove debris from a reactor at the damaged Fukushima ...

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

On November 9, a "UFO festival" was held in the Iinomachi district in the city of Fukushima, which is being promoted as a "hometown of UFOs." This year marked the third edition of this event. A ...

A small amount of radioactive debris removed by a robot from Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant has arrived at a research lab near Tokyo, the plant operator said Tuesday, after a journey kept ...

Small sample to aid in planning the safe decommissioning of the nuclear plant, which contains an estimated 880 tons of highly ...

Nov. 7 (UPI) --Japanese nuclear plant workers, for the first time, removed a small amount of melted fuel from one of the ...

More than 13 years after an earthquake-turned-tsunami triggered the second-largest nuclear accident in global history, a ...

The Pacific Ocean looks over the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae) TOKYO (AP) — A remote-controlled robot has safely returned with a tiny piece of melted fuel it ...