The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident reinforced the importance of having adequate national and international safety standards and guidelines in place so that nuclear power and technology remain safe ...

Hit by a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and an ensuing tsunami on March 11, 2011, the Fukushima nuclear plant suffered core ...

This is the 16th time that water containing small amounts of radioactive tritium has been released since the discharge began ...

Report by the IAEA Director General and five technical volumes. It is the result of an extensive international collaborative effort involving five working groups with about 180 experts from 42 Member ...

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO) will begin its 16th release of treated radioactive water from the Fukushima ...

The World Health Organization’s (WHO) report (PDF) on the estimated health effects from the Fukushima nuclear accident is out, and the results are… reassuring. The WHO modeled the impacts of excess ...

TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese court ruled former executives at the utility managing the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant were not accountable for the 2011 meltdown crisis and do not ...

In areas around the school, there are no signs of life. NAMIE, Japan, March 10, 2013— -- Michie Niikawa struggles to define her role as school principal. Two years since taking over at Ukedo ...

Local residents and anti-nuclear activists in Japan oppose the restart of one of the world’s biggest nuclear power plants and ...

Before Chernobyl and Fukushima, there was Windscale — the nuclear disaster Britain tried to erase from history. In 1957, a ...