The Fukushima accident prompted a pullback from atomic power in Japan, with the power source falling from 30 per cent of the energy mix to almost nothing, as well as reshaping support globally for the ...

The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant is in the town of Okuma, in Fukushima Prefecture. It sits on the country's east coast, about 220km (137 miles) north-east of the capital Tokyo.

The in-depth story of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Disaster On March 11, 2011, the Japanese islands were struck by an earthquake of enormous force. For six minutes the ground was shaking ...

The Fukushima nuclear disaster put much of Japan's nuclear power program on hold. Nearly a decade later, the energy-poor country is grappling with how to power one of the world's largest economies.

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster was a series of equipment failures, nuclear meltdowns and releases of radioactive materials at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan ...

An unnamed employee of the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) that owns the ruined Fukushima Daiichi or No.1, Nuclear Power Plant testified during a trial this week that a 2008 safety test ...

The nuclear disaster occurred when a 50-foot tsunami struck the power plant after a major earthquake occurred off Japan's coast on the afternoon of March 11, 2011.

Two Japanese towns that host the Fukushima nuclear power plant stood to gain a lot from the promises of nuclear power. But after one of the worst nuclear disasters, it's clear how much they've lost.

As efforts got underway Tuesday to retrieve a first sample of the highly radioactive debris festering in the depths of Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, shoppers with deep ...

At Masami Yoshizawa’s newly renamed Ranch of Hope, which is in the evacuation zone created by the 2011 disaster at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Credit Ko Sasaki for The New York Times Jan ...

Australia, which has no nuclear power plants, allows more than 76,000 becquerel per liter, a measure used to gauge radioactivity, while the WHO’s limit is 10,000.