Around 12.1 trillion yen ($82 billion) has already been spent to deal with the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, according to sources at the Board of Audit of Japan.

Germany’s decision to shut down its last nuclear power plant in 2023 marks the end of a decades-long campaign driven by public protests, political movements, and major global disasters like Chernobyl ...

Nuclear power is a key plank in Japan’s national energy vision, but 14 years after the Fukushima meltdown, the restart ...

TOKYO (AP) — A remote-controlled robot on Tuesday embarked on its second mission to retrieve tiny bits of melted fuel debris from inside a damaged reactor at the Fukushima nuclear plant that was ...

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Iwaki, my home town, stood on the edge of uncertainty – part of it was close to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. In this video image taken from NTV Japan, smoke rises from Fukushima ...

In 2011, an earthquake and tsunami triggered a meltdown of three reactors at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant. In 2016, the country's Trade Ministry estimated that it would cost $180 ...

A tricky operation to remove a second sample of radioactive debris from inside the stricken Fukushima ... are inside the power plant — the site of one of history's worst nuclear accidents ...

but it's also important to learn other lessons from the Fukushima accident. One lesson that all countries around the world that have nuclear power plants learned was that you should be planning ...

FILE - This aerial view shows the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima, northern Japan, on Aug. 24, 2023. (Kyodo News via AP, File) 33,187 people played the daily Crossword recently.

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