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

Satellite data show the shape of a wave as water sloshed around Dickson Fjord after a rockslide triggered a tsunami. The SWOT ...

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

THIS is the moment a robot digs out a rice-sized scrap of nuclear fuel from 880 tons of irradiated nuclear waste and make a startling discovery. It marks the first piece of the dangerous scrap ...

Hirosaki was our last stop in Tohoku, but we still had one city to go on this adventure: Hakodate, just across the Tsugaru ...

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A robot has, for the first time since the 2011 meltdown, retrieved a piece of radioactive fuel from the tsunami-ravaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The remote-controlled robot, named ...

But first, some context about the disaster. The Fukushima disaster was triggered on March 11, 2011, when a powerful 9.0-magnitude earthquake struck off Japan’s northeastern coast, unleashing a massive ...

TOKYO (AP) — A remote-controlled robot has safely returned with a tiny piece of melted fuel it collected from inside one of three damaged reactors at the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear ...