This photo shows part of the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, northeastern Japan, on Jan. 19, 2023. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida made a brief visit to ...

In March 2011, an 8.9-magnitude earthquake and a tsunami devastated the northeast coast of Japan and knocked out cooling systems at three of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant’s reactors ...

The 2011 earthquake was the most powerful ever recorded in Japan On Thursday, Japan will release treated radioactive wastewater from its Fukushima nuclear power plant - the site of a meltdown ...

Japan commemorated the thirteenth anniversary of the devastating 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and Fukushima nuclear disaster. Officials vowed to continue rebuilding.

The Japanese government on July 1 approved significant upgrades to the plan to safeguard the public in the event of a major ...

The IAEA’s Incident and Emergency Centre (IEC) received information from the International Seismic Safety Centre at approximately 08:15 Vienna Time concerning an earthquake with a magnitude of 9.0 ...

The Fukushima accident prompted a pullback from atomic power in Japan, with the power source falling from 30 per cent of the ...

Japan has turned to nuclear power more than a decade after the triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant. Japan is ditching plans to lessen its reliance on nuclear power as it struggles ...

— March 11, 2011: A magnitude 9.0 earthquake strikes off the coast of northeastern Japan, triggering a towering tsunami that smashed into the Fukushima nuclear plant, knocking out power and ...

On 11 March 2011 at 14:46 local time (05:46 GMT) the earthquake - known as the Great East Japan Earthquake, or the 2011 Tohoku earthquake - struck east of the city of Sendai, 97km north of the plant.

Treated but still slightly radioactive wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is being released into the Pacific Ocean in a process that began Thursday — more than 12 ...