Japan has turned to nuclear power more than a decade after the triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant. Japan is ditching plans to lessen its reliance on nuclear power as it struggles to ...

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s government reversed that policy and has accelerated restarts of workable reactors to maintain nuclear power as a main source of Japan’s power supply. A deadly ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan's nuclear watchdog on Wednesday formally disqualified a reactor in the country's north-central region from restarting, the first rejection under safety standards that were ...

One critical aspect is the effect on Japan's nuclear industry ... is the exclusion zone around the reactor. The incident is being described as a hydrogen explosion. The official line is that ...

Eleven years on, the nation is still reeling from the catastrophic damage to Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant caused by the magnitude-9.0 Great East Japan ...

Japan's Diet enacted a bill on Wednesday that allows nuclear reactors to remain in operation beyond the current 60-year limit. The country's push to ramp up nuclear power to achieve a carbon ...

Japan’s JT-60SA fusion reactor project announced first plasma ... is to investigate advanced components of the global ITER nuclear fusion project. Originally the JT-60SA upgrade with ...

Japan’s Tokyo Electric Power Company [Tepco] has shut down its last operating nuclear reactor. On Sunday, Tepco said it shut down the number six reactor at the Kashiwazaki Kariwa plant ...

The Micro–Physics Nuclear Reactor Simulator was developed by Nuclear Engineering, Ltd. (NEL), in Japan, in 2014, as a platform for analysis and visualization of behaviour of the nuclear reactor core ...

The UK government's nuclear policy is under renewed scrutiny as the firm behind a £20bn reactor in Wales looks set to halt construction. Japanese media reports say Hitachi will suspend on its ...