To understand why the Tohoku earthquake was so unusually powerful – and why it produced such a catastrophic tsunami – an ...

Any Japanese intervention to prop up the yen will have limited effect in sustainably halting the currency's slide, former ...

An alert from a monitoring system was triggered while workers were starting up reactor number six at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa ...

The restart, initially scheduled for Tuesday, had been pushed back after another technical issue related to the control rods' ...

Japan’s long and controversial effort to revive its nuclear power sector suffered another setback this week after Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (Tepco) shut down a reactor at the ...

The setback occurred hours after one of the world’s largest nuclear complexes restarted, ending more than a decade of ...

The restart of the No 6 reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant had been suspended because of a glitch related to control rods, its operator said.

The world's biggest nuclear power plant was restarted Wednesday for the first time since the 2011 Fukushima disaster, its Japanese operator said, despite persistent safety concerns among ...

A reactor at the world’s largest nuclear power plant that restarted for the first time since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster is now being shut down again Thursday to examine a glitch ...

However, the giant has remained dormant since the Fukushima nuclear accident in March 2011, when a powerful earthquake and a ...