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

nuclear meltdowns and releases of radioactive materials at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan, following a devastating earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, which claimed ...

An estimated 5.5 tons of radioactive water leaked from a building at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, but the operator ... 22 billion becquerels of gamma-emitting radioactive substances.

Fukushima robot begins second attempt to retrieve melted nuclear fuel - Engineers hope closer access to core will provide ...

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) experts have confirmed that tritium concentration in the 12th batch of diluted treated water, ...

In the Tohoku region, where the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant is located, nearly 90 percent of respondents said the efforts are insufficient, while less than 10 percent said they are ...

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 ...

Following the 2011 accident at TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), the IAEA and the Fukushima Prefecture agreed to cooperate on radiation monitoring and remediation. The Practical ...

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 ...

Tourists – mainly from China – are flocking to Futaba, the town which is home to the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, undeterred by lingering radiation threats from the 2011 ...

(Mainichi/Naoki Watanabe) The Mainichi Shimbun answers some common questions readers may have about what Japan will do with soil removed around the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station after ...

In 2011, an earthquake and tsunami triggered a meltdown of three reactors at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant. In 2016, the country's Trade Ministry estimated that it would cost $180 ...