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 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 ...

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 ...

Around 12.1 trillion yen ($82 billion) has already been spent to deal with the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, according to sources at the Board of Audit of Japan.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

TEPCO ex-chair at time of Fukushima nuclear disaster dies at 84 while on trial Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings' former chairperson, who led the emergency response after a meltdown at its ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...