TOKYO (AP) — Japan's nuclear watchdog on Wednesday formally disqualified a reactor in the country's north-central region from restarting, the first rejection under safety standards that were ...

While ministry officials said the total number of reactors in Japan would not increase, the new policy could face a public backlash because the current Strategic Energy Plan adopted in 2021 states ...

Japan's nuclear regulator has disqualified the country's Tsuruga No. 2 reactor from restarting for the first time under post-Fukushima safety standards. The Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA ...

Japan’s JT-60SA fusion reactor project announced first plasma in October of this year to denote the successful upgrades to what is now the world’s largest operational, superconducting tokamak ...

Besides these reactors being very old and therefore far less safe than when originally built, the legacy technology itself is even more dated and dangerous. Japan cannot afford another Fukushima ...

A remote-controlled robot has embarked on its second mission to retrieve tiny bits of melted fuel debris from inside a ...

Japan will have to limp by on just one nuclear reactor for the next six weeks after Kansai Electric Power Co. shut down the No. 4 reactor at its Oi nuclear plant in Fukui Prefecture, western ...

Japan's Diet enacted a bill on Wednesday that allows nuclear reactors to remain in operation beyond the current 60-year limit. The country's push to ramp up nuclear power to achieve a carbon ...

A Japanese court on Wednesday rejected a request to halt the operation of a nuclear reactor run by Shikoku Electric Power Co in western Japan. In the lawsuit at the Hiroshima District Court, ...

The operator of Japan's destroyed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear ... tiny bits of melted fuel debris from one of three damaged reactors later this year for the first time since the 2011 meltdown.