The UN nuclear watchdog chief visited Japan's stricken Fukushima plant on Wednesday, the day after Tokyo approved an energy ...

Japan says it will increase its reliance on nuclear energy in a major policy shift as it seeks to meet growing demand from ...

The organisation is monitoring the decades-long process to decommission the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, which went into ...

Japan is turning to nuclear power more than a decade after the triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant. Japan is ...

While Japan intends to recycle around 75 per cent ... still poses fertility issues” for agriculture, he said. The Fukushima disaster was triggered by a massive earthquake and tsunami in March ...

The Environment Ministry plans to decide around 2030 or later where to finally dispose of soil removed from the ground during decontamination work after the March 2011 disaster at Tokyo Electric ...

Japan also switched off its reactors in the wake of the disaster. But as the years passed and new crises emerged, nuclear power started to make a comeback. Prior to the Fukushima disaster ...

Japan's government has approved new climate, energy and industrial policies aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions by ...

is monitoring Japan's efforts to decommission the Fukushima Daiichi plant after a 2011 earthquake-triggered tsunami killed 18,000 people and set off the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.

It stands in contrast to the decision to fence off a large area after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster and more or less "leave it to wildlife", Evrard said. The operator of Japan's stricken Fukushima ...