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July 29 (UPI) --Citing "unprecedented technological challenges," Tokyo Electric Power Company announced on Tuesday it has put off the removal of hundreds of tons of radioactive waste from the ...

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 ...

The chief of Japan’s shuttered Fukushima nuclear power plant warned Wednesday that the biggest risk the crippled facility faces is another major earthquake and tsunami — though insisted the chaos of ...

More than 80 percent of municipalities outside Fukushima Prefecture that are storing soil collected from cleanup work following the 2011 nuclear disaster have yet to determine their disposal plans, an ...

Japan is preparing to take another step in its long-running effort to manage soil removed during the cleanup of areas affected by the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. The government has decided to ...

Editor’s note:This story originally ran on March 4, 2018, and we’re reposting it for the 10th anniversary of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster to give readers a sense of the technology being ...

The Japanese government will team up with experts in the United States and France to develop brand new technologies to collect melted fuel from crippled reactors at Fukushima, an official said Monday.

ALBANY, N.Y. (July 29, 2025) — UAlbany English Professor Thomas Bass was vacationing in Japan in 2018 when a former student, a Japanese journalist, offered to escort him to Fukushima, the site of the ...

The full-scale removal of melted nuclear fuel from the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima Daiichi power plant has been delayed by several years, with the operator now targeting 2037 or later for the crucial ...