Under the crippled reactors of Fukushima Daiichi, in spaces once assumed to be sterile and lifeless, scientists are finding ...

In Earth's highly radioactive hotspots, life can get pretty strange – from fungus that seems to thrive to an explosion of vertebrate diversity in the absence of human interference. A different story ...

One of the surviving reactors at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant was loaded with fuel last summer and recently turned back on, ...

Fifteen years after a tsunami caused the Fukushima nuclear accident, only bears, raccoons and boar are seen on the streets. But the authorities and some locals want people to move back ...

Japan shut down 54 reactors after the Fukushima meltdown, but momentum has gathered under Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi to turn them back on to meet surging demand from AI data centres and to bring ...

The earthquake that killed tens of thousands of people and led to the Fukushima nuclear shutdown was amplified by a soft layer of slippery clay, according to a new study. The layer is only around ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan fell quiet at 2:46 p.m. to mark the minute that an earthquake began 10 years ago, before setting off a tsunami and nuclear crisis that devastated the country’s northeast coast. The ...

A white, weathered store stands quietly in a deserted area of Namie town in Fukushima Prefecture, an area evacuated after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Inside the dilapidated building, ...

However, the giant has remained dormant since the Fukushima nuclear accident in March 2011, when a powerful earthquake and a ...