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

This is the first reactor barred in Japan under stricter safety protocols adopted after the Fukushima disaster.

A robot tasked with navigating the wreckage inside Fukushima Daiichi's Unit 2 reactor has successfully retrieved a small sample of melted nuclear fuel, marking a crucial step in Japan's journey ...

TOKYO (AP) — A remote-controlled robot has safely returned with a tiny piece of melted fuel it collected from inside one of three damaged reactors at the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear ...

It marks the first piece of the dangerous scrap removed from the site of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan. Three of the six nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Okuma ...

No new date for a restart was given. The reactor is one of three at the Onagawa plant, which is 100 kilometers (62 miles) north of the Fukushima Daiichi plant where three reactors melted following ...

Tokyo Electric Power Co. completed an experimental operation to remove a small sample of fuel debris from a reactor at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant on Nov. 7, the company said.

Tokyo Electric Power Company announced it has successfully completed the trial removal of a sample of fuel debris from the primary containment vessel of unit 2 at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear ...

Three of the six nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Okuma, Fukushima, Japan, suffered severe damage as a result of an earthquake and tsunami. New footage captures a robot ...

Nearly 20,000 people died, whole towns were wiped out and the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant was destroyed, creating deep fears of radiation that linger today. As the nation observes the ...