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 ...

A team of researchers in France are building on fundamental experimental research undertaken in the Ukrainian Chornobyl ...

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

Authorities have evacuated dozens of people from remote islands in southern Japan that have been shaken by over 1,700 tremors ...

The Japanese government Friday approved evacuation plans in the event of an accident at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power ...

A manga novel's prediction of a mega-earthquake hitting Japan on July 5th has sparked widespread fear, amplified by recent ...

Earthquakes can’t be predicted. But a manga artist’s dream of a July 5 'megaquake' has spooked some residents and travelers.

Japan’s new earthquake-detection network lengthens warning times, and researchers in Wales have harnessed nuclear blast ...

The Japanese government Friday approved evacuation plans in the event of an accident at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in central Japan, marking a vital step toward restarting the facility ...

More than 900 earthquakes have shaken a remote and sparsely populated island chain in southern Japan over two weeks, leaving ...

A magnitude 5.4 temblor struck off the Tokara island chain on Saturday, the latest in a series of seismic events in the area.