This video breaks down the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, tsunami, and Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. The earthquake shut down the reactors, but the tsunami flooded the backup generators and batteries, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tokyo Electric Power Company's Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant in Kashiwazaki, Niigata, Japan on June 17, 2025. - The Asahi ...

The country lives on the edge, literally and figuratively, of tectonic plates and concerns are growing that Tokyo is overdue ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: A worker wearing a protective suit and mask walks past the wall of the No. 3 reactor building, green from when an ...

After the infamous 2011 explosion of three reactors in Japan’s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Fukushima, the government shut down all nuclear operations. For fifteen years, Japan banished nuclear power, ...

In a bizarre incident, Japan’s Meteorological Agency (JMA) issued a warning about what could have been the world’s worst ...

One year after the nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan, caused by a devastating earthquake and tsunami, the country has shut down nearly all its nuclear plants over safety ...

In 2011, the Fukushima disaster left many dogs behind. A 2012 study found 17 rescued dogs had 5 to 10 times more stress ...

Japan is shifting its energy policy to redevelop its nuclear energy capacity, aiming for 20 percent of its power from nuclear energy by 2040 to support climate goals. The world’s largest nuclear ...