Peach exports from Fukushima Prefecture to Taiwan resumed in full on Monday for the first time since shipments were halted ...

A residential building on fire after an earthquake struck Japan's southern Kumamoto prefecture, in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto prefecture, Japan, today.  Kyodo News via Reuters About 80 people hurt during ...

With the full arrival of the summer heat, electricity demand is on the rise. At Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc.’s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant, reactor No. 6 resumed commercial ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Designed by Newcleo, an Italian tech company looking for a more sustainable solution to nuclear reactors, the PRECURSOR reactor uses lead as a ...

Thomas Bass has written a timely and important book on what we should learn from the 2011 disaster at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear energy plant. Bass, who teaches journalism at the State University of ...

Industrial progress has always come with both achievement and risk. As factories, oil rigs, and power plants expanded over the past two centuries, so too did the potential for large-scale accidents.

TOKYO, June 5 (Reuters) - Japan needs to rebuild between two and five ageing nuclear reactors by the 2040s and as many ‌as 11 to 14 by the 2050s to secure stable power supply, the Ministry of Economy, ...

On April 26, 1986, the world experienced the worst nuclear power plant disaster in history: the explosion and fire of reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. The accident was ...

The last two months have seen the anniversaries of the two worst civilian nuclear catastrophes in history. Indeed, as of Sunday, April 26, it has been 40 years since the Chernobyl disaster, which ...

Sunday, April 26, marks the 40th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear power plant accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in the Soviet Union. The Chernobyl disaster is the worst nuclear ...