The reactor is a pressurized water reactor-type with an output of 826,000 kilowatts. The reactor was shut down after the 2011 ...

A nuclear reactor in northeastern Japan, hit by the devastating 2011 earthquake and tsunami, was restarted Wednesday after a ...

Tsuruga No. 2, operated by the Japan Atomic Power Co., is the first reactor to be rejected under safety standards adopted in ...

Japan’s nuclear watchdog on Wednesday formally disqualified a reactor in the country’s north-central region for a restart, ...

TOKYO—A small amount of radioactive debris removed by a robot from Japan’s stricken Fukushima nuclear plant has arrived at a ...

A small amount of radioactive debris removed by a robot from Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant has arrived at a research lab near Tokyo, the plant operator said Tuesday, after a journey kept ...

The closest thing in human memory to the Big One occurred in Japan in 2011. That magnitude 9 event, called the Tohoku earthquake, also came from a subduction zone. It generated a tsunami that reached ...

Causing 18,000 fatalities and great devastation in Japan, on March 11, 2011, a tsunami struck Japan that was triggered by a ...

7 (UPI) --Japanese nuclear plant workers, for the first time, removed a small amount of melted fuel from one of the Fukushima ...

Some people in the flood zone said the strength of the water was "like a tsunami", sending cars in the street tumbling on top of each other. Many are now without power after the flooding got into ...

“It was like a tsunami.” The 21-year old from Paiporta, near Valencia, is one of the thousands of people who experienced Tuesday night’s flash floods which engulfed the region and killed at ...