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 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 ...

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 ...

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.

In 2011, a tsunami triggered by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake flooded three reactors of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. The event is regarded as the world's worst nuclear disaster since ...

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster was a series of equipment failures, nuclear meltdowns and releases of radioactive materials at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan ...

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

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 ...

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

TOKYO - Japanese offered tearful prayers on Saturday on the anniversary of the deadly tsunami that triggered the Fukushima disaster, but public support for nuclear power is growing as memories of ...

For the first time, radiation from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan has been found in the United States. CBSN's Cindy Hsu has the story on how researchers detected radiation on 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 ...