Fukushima nuclear crisis

Tokyo Electric Power Co. has disclosed yet another case of radioactive water leaking from an aboveground steel storage tank at the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.

Now in his late 80s, Seiji Fujishiro has had a dramatic change of heart about the way he draws.

Workers miscalculated pressure levels inside a reactor during the early stages of the Fukushima nuclear crisis, leading to a reduction in cooling water and a possible increase...

The Nuclear Regulation Authority released some of the images on June 4 of damaged equipment that was used to cool a reactor at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.

In line with the Abe administration's push for the restart of nuclear reactors, the 2013 government white paper on environmental issues has noticeably removed the warning on...

FUKUSHIMA--Compensation payments are expected to take a financial toll on Tokyo Electric Power Co. after redress cases strengthened for bereaved families and victims of stress...

Score a victory for Japan's powerful business lobby.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. will implement a "difficult" proposal to use walls of frozen soil to reduce the amount of groundwater flowing into reactor buildings at its crippled...

Four electric power companies are expected to apply to the Nuclear Regulation Authority in July for screening to restart eight idle reactors, sources said May 29.

The health effects from the Fukushima nuclear accident are substantially smaller than those from the Chernobyl disaster, and the increase in cancer incidence in Japan will be...

Officials from local municipalities and the Ibaraki prefectural government inspected a nuclear physics laboratory in Ibaraki Prefecture on May 25 where thirty scientists are...

A United Nations expert who investigated the aftermath of Japan's 2011 nuclear power plant disaster says the government and the operator of the facility should do more to help...

Anti-nuclear activists blasted the government at the Tokyo District Court on May 23 in the first hearing over the legality of protest tents set up on the grounds of the...

Keeping the meltdown-stricken Fukushima nuclear plant in northeastern Japan in stable condition requires a cast of thousands. Increasingly the plant's operator is struggling to ...

Japan's nuclear watchdog has endorsed a panel's conclusion that a seismic fault running underneath an atomic plant in western Japan is active, making the plant's restart...