saying it will contaminate the ocean Japan's controversial plan to release treated waste water from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean has sparked anxiety and anger at home and abroad.

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 ...

The Japanese government and nuclear power plant operators have long grappled with how to dispose of spent fuel and other high-level radioactive waste. Authorities finally settled on the approach ...

Newly uncovered court documents have revealed how North Korean spies exploited South Korean outage over Japan's nuclear waste ...

Beijing banned Japanese seafood imports in 2023 following a row over the release of waste water from the Fukushima nuclear plant.

Two of Japan's nuclear power plants were rattled on Monday when a magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck southwest Japan, prompting a tsunami advisory for parts of the region. This map shows the ...

The new proposal says nuclear energy should account for 20 percent of Japan’s energy supply in 2040, up from just 8.5 percent last year, while expanding renewables to 40-50 percent from 22.9 ...

Sweden started building a final storage facility for spent nuclear fuel on Wednesday, only the second such site in the world, where highly radioactive waste will be stored for 100,000 years.

Japan's new energy policy aims to increase renewables to up to 50% of electricity needs by 2040 while maximizing nuclear power use, reversing post-Fukushima phaseout. The strategy includes next ...

The new proposal says nuclear energy should account for 20% of Japan’s energy supply in 2040, up from just 8.5% last year, while expanding renewables to 40-50% from 22.9%. The Fukushima Daiichi ...

TOKYO – Japan is decidedly embracing nuclear energy again ... and considering unresolved issues such as radioactive waste disposal, earthquake preparedness and evacuation routes, building ...