Image taken by operator TEPCO on August 26, 2013 shows Toshimitsu Motegi, Japan's Economy, Trade and Industry Minister, inspecting the Fukushima plant. TEPCO said Sunday it had found highly ...

Highly radioactive water leaked from a treatment machine at the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, but no one was injured and radiation monitoring shows no impact to the outside ...

In Earth's highly radioactive hotspots, life can get pretty strange – from fungus that seems to thrive to an explosion of vertebrate diversity in the absence of human interference. A different story ...

Tritium, a radioactive substance, was not found in the most recent sample collected from fish near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, where treated radioactive water was released into the sea. The ...

Japan has engaged in talks with Chinese experts to address concerns about the release of treated radioactive wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The discharges faced opposition ...

One of the surviving reactors at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant was loaded with fuel last summer and recently turned back on, ...

Over 7,000 tons of water have been poured onto Fukushima’s scalding fuel rods in a desperate attempt to cool them off. So what happens to that water? It soaks up radiation, and sits there. Big problem ...

TEPCO installed a new circulatory cooling system in September with filters that decontaminate and recycle the cooling water. But the company acknowledges that some water has already leaked into the ...

Japan is planning to release tons of water from the Fukushima nuclear site into the Pacific Ocean – water contaminated with tritium, a radioactive form of hydrogen. This has led to protests by China, ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Highly radioactive water overflowed barriers into Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, its operating utility said on Monday, after it underestimated how much rain would ...