The No. 6 reactor in late January became TEPCO's first reactor to be brought back online since the meltdowns at its Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex in the wake of the massive earthquake and tsunami ...

Why did the 2011 earthquake in Japan cause such a massive tsunami? This disaster, one of the deadliest in modern history, had surprised scientists by the way the fault ruptured much closer to ...

The drilling expedition, conducted aboard the research vessel Chikyu, set a Guinness World Record for the deepest scientific ocean drilling ever achieved. Core samples revealed a roughly ...

You’ve heard about Washington’s earthquake risk, but you might not realize Washington is also at risk for a major tsunami. It could come with little warning, but you can protect yourself by being ...

Japan has restarted a reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant after a 14-year shutdown, marking a pivotal shift back toward nuclear power to strengthen energy security, curb fossil fuel imports, and ...

Fifteen years ago, on March 11, 2011, four nuclear reactors in Fukushima, Japan were destroyed by an earthquake and tsunami, a disaster that still impacts the world today.

New research shows that a fragile clay layer beneath the Japan Trench played a key role in the extreme seafloor movement ...

Japan's Tepco has restarted the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa unit 6 reactor, marking its first nuclear restart since the Fukushima ...

The earthquake and resulting tsunami decimated the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant along the coast. The massive ecological ...

Takaichi has the largest majority of any Japanese PM since World War II. Now she must decide how to tackle Japan’s difficult ...

TOKYO – Japan switched on the world’s biggest nuclear power plant again on Monday, its operator said, after an earlier ...

The outcome of this Sunday’s election will have significant consequences for Japan’s national security policy.