Around 12.1 trillion yen ($82 billion) has already been spent to deal with the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, according to sources at the Board of Audit of Japan.

Kenichi Okada earlier said he could not discuss discharge of Fukushima radioactive waste water with Hong Kong government ‘in a scientific manner’.

The accident that took place at Fukushima Daiichi has fundamentally changed the nuclear power sector and its approach to safety ... that in spite of the core damage that led to the release of ...

This study analyzes the impact of the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant during the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011 ... but if they live closer to the plant, the effect is ...

More than eight years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, a Japanese court has cleared three former executives of the firm operating the plant of professional negligence. It was the only ...

Six former Fukushima Prefecture ... on compensating victims of the nuclear disaster since they were compiled in 2013, when the full extent of the adverse health effects was not available yet.

The 2011 Fukushima disaster was the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl. Decommissioning has already started but could take four decades. "We expect the timing of the release would be sometime ...

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident reinforced the importance of having adequate national and international safety standards and guidelines in place so that nuclear power and technology remain safe ...

But for many, the word Fukushima has sadly become associated with the image of nuclear disaster. One effect of this has been that the growth in the number of tourists to the prefecture ...

The Fukushima prefectural government, which runs the facility, has collected about 240,000 items related to the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster. Only a fraction of them can be shown at ...

All of Japan's 54 commercial nuclear power plants were shut down after the Fukushima disaster for safety checks ... Newsday Drought effect on LI ... Giving thanks for gift of life ...

All of Japan’s 54 commercial nuclear power plants were shut down after the Fukushima disaster for safety checks and upgrades. Onagawa No. 2 was the 13th of the 33 still useable reactors to restart.