The Supreme Court has acquitted two former top executives of Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), which operates the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, absolving them of criminal liability for ...

Around 12.1 trillion yen ($82 billion) has already been spent to deal with the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The International Atomic Energy Agency has released a new update on the ongoing discharge of treated water from Japan's Fukushima ...

The world's worst nuclear disaster began 40 years ago at 1:23 a.m. on April 26, 1986, when Unit 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power generation facility experienced an explosion and meltdown. Ironically, ...

The Chernobyl disaster became one of the most significant events in the history of nuclear energy and had lasting effects on ...

Washington’s stipulations seem to have put the agreement in jeopardy, creating additional tensions in the region ...

TOKYO — Japan marked the 15th anniversary of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster on its northeastern coast Wednesday as the government pushes for more use of atomic energy. The magnitude 9.0 ...

What would happen if a nuclear war triggered a climate-altering catastrophe? Researchers have modeled how such a scenario could devastate global corn crops cutting production by as much as 87% due to ...

(via Kyle Hill) On October 10th, 1957, a nuclear reactor fire broke out at Windscale in the UK becoming the first nuclear disaster to directly impact the public. Long before Fukushima Daiichi nuclear ...

Floods, wildfires, heatwaves and storms are becoming more frequent and more intense as a result of climate change. Emergency systems around the world are being tested not only by the scale of these ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The 1986 Chernobyl disaster fueled global fears about nuclear power and slowed its development in Europe and ...

Radiation can wreak havoc on the human body when it's exposed to high doses or for prolonged periods of time. The world understood this in horrifying detail after the Chernobyl and Fukushima Daiichi ...