A remote-controlled robot has embarked on its second mission to retrieve tiny bits of melted fuel debris from inside a ...

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 ...

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), along with experts from the People’s Republic of China, the Republic of Korea, the Russian Federation, and Switzerland, collected samples today of ALPS ...

A decades-long project to clean up the remains of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is preparing to remove damaged fuel debris from the plant’s reactors, but much about what’s inside ...

A team from NHK-World takes an exclusive look inside the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, which suffered a triple meltdown in the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami. The disaster ...

The IAEA Action Plan on Nuclear Safety, endorsed by IAEA Member States in September 2011, defined a programme of work to strengthen the global nuclear safety framework in response to the March 2011 ...

As buildings crumbled and waves surged inland, no one realized a greater threat was unfolding at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. This is the moment it all went wrong.

T OKYO (AP) — The operator of the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant said on Monday that it has obtained permission from safety regulators to start loading atomic fuel into a ...

As the most heavily damaged unit at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, engineers are interested to learn the details of the fuel and debris that has fallen to the bottom of the vessel so that the clean ...

Japanese officials plan to start releasing treated but still slightly radioactive wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean as early as Thursday ...

This classroom at Futaba Minami Elementary School has been untouched since the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Yoshino Takamitsu is on the town’s education board and is in ...

OKUMA, Japan (AP) — The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant’s radiation levels have significantly dropped since the cataclysmic meltdown in Japan 14 years ago. Workers walk around in many areas ...