A robot tasked with navigating the wreckage inside Fukushima Daiichi's Unit 2 reactor has successfully retrieved a small sample of melted nuclear fuel, marking a crucial step in Japan's journey ...

A Japanese nuclear reactor that restarted last week for the first time in more than 13 years after it survived a massive earthquake and tsunami that badly damaged the nearby Fukushima nuclear ...

A Japanese town whose population fled the 2011 Fukushima nuclear plant disaster has partially reopened eight years later. Radiation levels in parts of Okuma, west of the Daiichi plant, have been ...

Soon after a tsunami damaged three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on March 11, 2011, the Japanese government issued an emergency declaration and ordered people living nearby ...

The Fukushima nuclear disaster was triggered by a massive earthquake and subsequent tsunami in 2011 Japan has announced for the first time that a worker at the stricken Fukushima nuclear power ...

FUKUSHIMA—Police are investigating a report of a foreign man walking around a school building no longer in use due to the 2011 nuclear disaster as a trespassing case, in a video posted to TikTok ...

TOKYO -- 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 power ...

It's been eight years since the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Operations to remove radioactive material were mostly completed back in 2018. But a new problem has emerged: how to dispose of ...

IWAKI, Fukushima Prefecture—A weed described as “the worst alien species on the planet” has been discovered for the first time in the northeastern Tohoku region, alarming local farmers and ...

TOKYO (AP) — Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings’ former chairperson, who led the emergency response after a meltdown at its Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant and was accused of being ...

Fukushima Store’s Selena Kailiehu (from left), manager Desiree Kekiwi-Higa and Monica Uweko‘olani prepare hot dogs at the landmark Haiku store Thursday morning. — The Maui News / MATTHEW ...

No new date for a restart was given. The reactor is one of three at the Onagawa plant, which is 100 kilometers (62 miles) north of the Fukushima Daiichi plant where three reactors melted following ...