As part of its ongoing multi-year safety review, the IAEA collected and analyzed onsite samples of the diluted water prior to ...

Kishida said at the meeting that the release of the water is a key step in the plant decommissioning and Fukushima prefecture’s recovery from the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami disaster.

Highly radioactive water leaked from a treatment machine at the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, but no one was injured and radiation monitoring shows no impact to the outside ...

At Mother's Radiation Lab Fukushima in Iwaki, a citizens' testing center known as Tarachine, tests were being conducted on water samples, including on tritium levels for seawater that the lab ...

Over 7,000 tons of water have been poured onto Fukushima’s scalding fuel rods in a desperate attempt to cool them off. So what happens to that water? It soaks up radiation, and sits there. Big ...

Another week, another nuclear setback at Fukushima. This time, TEPCO’s noticed what appears to be contaminated water gushing out of a containment tank, Reuters reports—a development that’ll ...

Workers at Japan's tsunami-damaged nuclear power plant on Wednesday finally halted a leak that was sending a tide of radioactive water into the Pacific and exacerbating concerns over the safety of ...

Memorial in Namie, Japan On March 11, Japan marks the 10th anniversary of the 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and triple nuclear meltdown in Fukushima. Almost 16,000 were killed and hundreds of ...

Japan's nuclear watchdog has said the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is facing a new "emergency" caused by a build-up of radioactive groundwater. A barrier built to contain the water has already ...

Radioactive groundwater at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has likely risen above an underground barrier meant to contain it, presenting an "emergency" that the plant's operator is not ...