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 ...

A second explosion has hit a Japanese nuclear plant that was damaged in Friday's earthquake, but officials said the reactor core was still intact. A huge column of smoke billowed from Fukushima ...

The industry ministry plans to allow utilities to build new nuclear reactors on condition ... While ministry officials said the total number of reactors in Japan would not increase, the new ...

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 ...

all 33 workable reactors in Japan must be back online, with only 14 back in service after the Fukushima disaster. Given the current pace of safety checks by the nuclear regulation authority ...

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 ...

Russia's State Nuclear Energy Corporation Rosatom is currently involved in projects to build 36 nuclear reactors abroad -- thought to be the world's largest portfolio of overseas nuclear development.

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 ...