A Japanese government panel has largely supported a draft energy policy calling for bolstering renewables up to half of ...

The lessons Japan learned the hard way from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear power plant meltdowns have formed the foundation of ...

Uranium was found in one of the three meltdown-hit reactors at Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Fukushima No. 1 ...

The draft policy states that nuclear power should ... new nuclear plants or expanding existing ones. The new policy is needed, senior energy officials said, because Japan “continues to have ...

TOKYO – Japan is decidedly embracing ... the scars of the meltdown at the Fukushima plant persist in a disaster-prone nation, causing disquiet over whether nuclear energy is truly as safe ...

A TEPCO official told a press conference they are now gearing up for a second sample removal due in "March to April". The ...

Japan will begin releasing a second batch of waste water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant from next week, its operator has said, an exercise that angered China and others when it began in ...

This is a photograph of the approximately 0.7 grams of fuel debris first removed in November from the Fukushima ...

It calls for maximizing the use of nuclear energy, reversing a phaseout policy adopted after the meltdown crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in ... for 20% of Japan’s energy supply ...

Japan is poised to amp up its use of nuclear power to meet national energy needs after a 13-year pause in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima disaster ... decommissioned plants with advanced reactors ...

FILE - The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, damaged by a massive March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami, is seen from the nearby Ukedo fishing port in Namie town, northeastern Japan ...