TOKYO (AP) – Ukrainian nuclear experts say Japanese evacuated from around the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant should be able to return to their homes _ unlike the Chernobyl site, which remains inside ...

TOKYO, April 12 (Reuters) - Japan on Tuesday raised the severity level of its nuclear crisis to put it on par with the 1986 Chernobyl accident, the world's worst nuclear power disaster. Sign up here.

Two workers at Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear power station have been hospitalized as radiation-contaminated water seeped into their boots while laying power cables. They join 15 who've ...

Twenty-five years ago today, reactor number 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in what's now Ukraine melted down. Some 600,000 workers were exposed to massive amounts of radiation and the ...

A: The decision was based on new assessments of radiation leaks since the crisis began, rather than on deteriorating conditions. The new data showed emissions exceeding the threshold for a "major ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan on Tuesday raised the severity level of its nuclear crisis to put it on par with the 1986 Chernobyl accident, the world's worst nuclear power disaster. But for all their ...