Causing 18,000 fatalities and great devastation in Japan, on March 11, 2011, a tsunami struck Japan that was triggered by a ...

The turbine had been started on Friday, so this makes it less than three days of resuming operations. According to a report by the Associated Press (AP), the reactor had to be shu ...

Tohoku Electric Power on Wednesday restarted the No. 2 reactor at its Onagawa nuclear power plant in Miyagi Prefecture. The ...

Japan’s nuclear watchdog on Wednesday formally disqualified a reactor in the country’s north-central region for a restart, ...

Japan's Meteorological Agency is investigating the possibility of a tsunami impact in its country following a massive volcano eruption near Indonesia. Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki erupted again on ...

A Japanese nuclear reactor with an upgraded anti-tsunami wall was set to restart Tuesday in a region near the crippled ...

A nuclear reactor in northeastern Japan will be halted just days after becoming the first one to restart in the region since ...

The government, its makeup in flux after the governing party lost seats this week, will soon need to make decisions that will ...

The Onagawa plant, struck by a 42-foot tsunami, managed to maintain its cooling systems and safely shut down all three ...

The Japanese people named the tsunami using two characters: tsu, meaning "harbour," and nami, meaning "wave." The term ...

KOCHI: Twenty years ago — on December 26, 2004 — deep beneath the Indian Ocean near the island of Sumatra, a 1,300km-long rupture occurred on the faultline betw ...

Tsuruga No. 2, operated by the Japan Atomic Power Co., is the first reactor to be rejected under safety standards adopted in ...