A Japanese court has rejected the request of thousands of residents to suspend operations of two reactors at a nuclear power plant in Kagoshima Prefecture in southwestern Japan. The power complex is ...

8, 2025. (Mainichi/Akihiro Hirata) As the only country to have experienced wartime atomic bombings, Japan has a responsibility to make every effort toward a "world without nuclear weapons." ...

The meltdown and mass evacuation triggered a global panic, with countries as far away as Germany vowing to shut their nuclear plants. Japan also switched off its reactors in the wake of the disaster.

(Bloomberg) -- After more than a decade of inactivity, Japan’s biggest nuclear power plant is ready to restart — but it faces an indefinite wait. The Kashiwazaki Kariwa plant on the country ...

The IAEA Director General has been in Japan this week, supporting local efforts to enhance nuclear safety and environmental remediation, as the country prepares to restart its nuclear power plants ...

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 ...

It marks an end to Japan’s nuclear energy phaseout policy adopted after the 2011 meltdown crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant that led to extensive displacement of residents and ...