Japan’s ground cracked open in the most powerful earthquake in its history. Towns vanished beneath a towering tsunami. But beneath the chaos, something far more dangerous was brewing—at the Fukushima ...

The town of Futaba, cohost to the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, was entirely evacuated after the Great East ...

Nuclear power is a key plank in Japan’s national energy vision, but 14 years after the Fukushima meltdown, the restart ...

Fukushima nuclear plant completes second debris removal operation, facing challenges in decommissioning due to high radiation levels.

A tricky operation to remove a second sample of radioactive debris from inside Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant has been completed, the site operator said Wednesday. Dangerously high radiation ...

A narrow, attic-like space lies directly below the No. 5 reactor at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, showing the ...

Three of Fukushima’s six reactors went into meltdown in 2011 after the huge tsunami swamped the facility. In 2023, Japan began releasing into the Pacific Ocean some of the 540 Olympic swimming ...