Japan's nuclear plants faced global scrutiny after the devastating 2011 tsunami triggered by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake.

Amid the energy transition away from fossil fuels, nuclear power's influence is expected ... contaminated water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.

The country’s government has prepared a strategic energy plan that’s yet to be approved by the cabinet. The document calls for a maximization of nuclear power. The plan is to operate 30 nuclear ...

Japan has turned to nuclear power more than a decade after the triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant. Japan is ditching plans to lessen its reliance on nuclear power as it struggles to ...

Radiation from the Fukushima nuclear disaster ... 10 miles north of the plant, spend days collecting readings at hundreds of points, which they use to create color-coded maps of radioactivity ...

A tiny amount of melted nuclear fuel was retrieved for the first time the other day from one of the reactors at the disaster-stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.

In 2011, the cooling system of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan did not work properly because the power supply was damaged following the impact of a tsunami. This led to a ...