Recent reports that there was a radioactive water leak at the Fugen nuclear reactor in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, Japan, which is undergoing decommissioning, have once again sounded an alarm about ...

Japan reveals a different side of itself with each season, from cherry blossoms and summer festivals to autumn leaves and ...

Japan has taken a decisive step toward restarting the world’s largest nuclear power station, as a regional political vote cleared the way for operations to resume nearly 15 years after the Fukushima d ...

Tokyo Electric Power Co plans to restart the first unit of its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant, the world's biggest, ...

Japan is returning to nuclear energy almost 15 years after the Fukushima disaster – but not everyone is convinced it’s a good ...

The governor of Niigata on Tuesday formally gave local consent to put two reactors at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in the north-central prefecture back online, clearing a last hurdle ...

BEIJING - China on Wednesday urged Japan to promptly clarify the situation following a water leakage involving radioactive ...

Struck by a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and a subsequent tsunami on March 11, 2011, the Fukushima nuclear plant experienced core ...

Before Fukushima, nuclear power supplied around 30 percent of Japan’s electricity. But after the disaster, the country shut down all 54 of its nuclear reactors, including Kashiwazaki-Kariwa. Only 14 ...