The final barrier to restarting the world's largest nuclear plant has fallen in Japan. Lawmakers in Niigata Prefecture on Monday gave the green light to resuming operations at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa ...

On Wednesday, Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority announced that it is halting the relicensing process for two reactors at ...

Japanese authorities have approved a decision to restart the world’s biggest nuclear power plant, which has sat dormant for more than a decade following the Fukushima nuclear disaster, in a pivotal ...

Professor Katsuhiko Ishibashi, a seismologist and a former member of a Japanese government panel on nuclear reactor safety, ...

Nearly 15 years after one of the world’s greatest nuclear disasters in Fukushima, Japan’s push to restart nuclear power has ...

Japan's nuclear regulatory authority has suspended the safety assessment of reactors 3 and 4 at the Hamaoka nuclear power ...

Japan's nuclear regulator may reject the restart of Chubu Electric's Hamaoka Nuclear Plant after the utility admitted falsifying data during a regulatory review. This revelation follows stricter ...

Japan has completed the 17th round of discharging nuclear-contaminated water from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. The operation, which began in August 2023 despite international ...

An agency official says the November incident involved a device mainly for calls, not nuclear data. An employee of Japan's nuclear regulator lost a smartphone, possibly in China, containing a ...

Nuclear power has a lot of potential, but many fear the dangers of nuclear meltdowns. Fortunately, some new reactors might ...

After a multi-billion-dollar upgrade process, Japan’s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant is scheduled to restart in ...

In the wake of the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan shut down all of its nuclear power stations. Fifteen years on, the ...