Geologists from Heriot-Watt are part of an international research team that has confirmed why the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake off ...

Despite public opposition and the memory of the Fukushima disaster, Japan's government has approved a new energy plan aiming ...

The operator says reactor remains "stable" and has no "radioactive impact outside".

A strong 6.2-magnitude earthquake has shaken western Japan, the country’s meteorological office said, with no tsunami warning ...

Survivors and residents on Saturday shared their grief and memories of the calamity wrought by the major earthquake that killed over 6 ...

Debris and mud cover a city in Japan flattened by a massive tsunami in March 2011, caused by the energy released by a ...

When a huge earthquake struck near Kamchatka, the SWOT satellite captured an unprecedented, high-resolution view of the resulting tsunami as it crossed the Pacific. The data revealed the waves were ...

Tokyo Electric Power Company restarted Reactor No. 6 of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant in Niigata Prefecture on ...

Alarm forces Japan to halt restart of world’s largest nuclear power plant after just 24 hours - An alert from a monitoring ...

Far below the Pacific, scientists are mapping a hidden record of catastrophe carved into the seabed by ancient Cascadia earthquakes. Those deep scars, preserved in massive underwater landslides, are ...

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 ...

Japan has suspended operations at the world's largest nuclear power plant, hours after its restart, its operator has said. An alarm sounded "during reactor-start-up procedures" at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa ...