NIIGATA--The Japanese region of Niigata is expected to endorse a decision to restart the world's largest nuclear power plant ...

The disasters at Chernobyl and Fukushima are commonly touted as mere cultural exceptions, either due to Soviet communism or ...

The country is rapidly moving to restart reactors as artificial intelligence increases electricity demand and foreign wars ...

When nuclear accidents happen, many people imagine radiation spreading everywhere and lasting forever. The reality is more ...

Chornobyl is the Ukrainian form, while Chernobyl reflects older Russian usage. Professor Deborah Oughton at the Norwegian ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. March 11, 2026, marks 15 years since the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Cleanup and recovery efforts have ...

Fifteen years after the devastating 2011 nuclear disaster, Tomoko Kobayashi continues her personal mission to revive her near-deserted hometown in northeastern Fukushima. Inside Futabaya Ryokan, the ...

ODAKA, Japan (AP) — Fifteen years after the 2011 nuclear disaster, color-coded radiation maps hang on the wall of Futabaya Ryokan, the family-run inn Tomoko Kobayashi operates in her near-deserted ...

Japan will begin using 6 cubic meters of soil removed during cleanup after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in flowerbeds at ...

FUKUSHIMA—Three Ukrainian men were arrested for livestreaming their unlawful entry into a vacant home in  Okuma, Fukushima ...

Fifteen years ago, Fukushima, Japan, was home to one of the worst nuclear disasters in history. Today, some places in the region look just as they did in the immediate aftermath of that fateful Friday ...