Tepco's Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Unit 6 has begun trial power transmission after neutron monitor glitch, with full output targeted ...

A tense return to the disaster foregrounds the heroism of the ‘Fukushima 50’ while raising questions about corporate secrecy and nuclear safety ...

TOKYO -- Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) has resumed power generation and transmission to the grid from its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant in Niigata prefecture, central Japan.

Wild boar roaming the forests around the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant now carry domestic pig DNA, a genetic legacy of the chaos that followed the 2011 nuclear disaster. When residents ...

More than a decade after the Fukushima nuclear accident forced a mass evacuation, the region remains a ghost town for humans. But when humans go away, wildlife comes right back in. Among the most ...

Japan has taken a cautious but unmistakable step toward reviving large-scale nuclear power, beginning fuel loading at the ...

Fifteen years ago, on March 11, 2011, four nuclear reactors in Fukushima, Japan were destroyed by an earthquake and tsunami, a disaster that still impacts the world today.

Study finds domestic pig maternal traits sped reproduction and reshaped wild boar genetics after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.

Domestic pig genes got diluted across generations but their rapid reproductive capacity persisted in hybrid hogs ...

Japan's Tepco has restarted the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa unit 6 reactor, marking its first nuclear restart since the Fukushima ...

The earthquake and resulting tsunami decimated the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant along the coast. The massive ecological ...

A new genetic study examines an unusually large hybridization event that followed the Fukushima nuclear accident, when ...