The Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) plans to ask the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) to review its plan for ...

Japan is gearing up to build the world’s first hydrogen production facility powered by a next-generation nuclear reactor. For ...

Japan will have to limp by on just one nuclear reactor for the next six weeks after Kansai Electric Power Co. shut down the No. 4 reactor at its Oi nuclear plant in Fukui Prefecture, western ...

Japan appears eager to restart more nuclear reactors that were shut down after the Fukushima disaster, but many plant workers at the power companies have no experience operating such equipment ...

Japan's Diet enacted a bill on Wednesday that allows nuclear reactors to remain in operation beyond the current 60-year limit. The country's push to ramp up nuclear power to achieve a carbon ...

Japan’s JT-60SA fusion reactor project announced first plasma ... is to investigate advanced components of the global ITER nuclear fusion project. Originally the JT-60SA upgrade with ...

Nuclear power is a very important source of energy in Japan, with 53 reactors currently in operation and together accounting for about 25% of total power supply in the country. In recent years, ...

Japan’s Tokyo Electric Power Company [Tepco] has shut down its last operating nuclear reactor. On Sunday, Tepco said it shut down the number six reactor at the Kashiwazaki Kariwa plant ...

The meltdown and mass evacuation triggered a global panic, with countries as far away as Germany vowing to shut their nuclear plants. Japan also switched off its reactors in the wake of the disaster.

all 33 workable reactors in Japan must be back online, with only 14 back in service after the Fukushima disaster. Given the current pace of safety checks by the nuclear regulation authority ...

Japan has unveiled what’s being described as the world’s first solar super-panel. The country is reportedly going to develop the technology until the equivalent power of 20 nuclear reactors is being ...