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

The Supreme Court has acquitted two former top executives of Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), which operates the crippled ...

Sunday, April 26, marks the 40th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear power plant accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in the Soviet Union.

Daniel Hryhorczuk On April 26, 1986, the world experienced the worst nuclear power plant disaster in history: the explosion ...

On 26 April 1986, a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine exploded ...

Protesters hold a banner during a rally in Tokyo, Japan, on November 21, 2025, after Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi criticized the country's traditional policy against nuc ...

Fifteen years ago, Fukushima, Japan, was home to one of the worst nuclear disasters in history. Today, some places in the region look just as they did in the immediate aftermath of that fateful Friday ...

IMMEDIATELY after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, hundreds of thousands of “liquidators” were sent in to clear up after the catastrophic explosion. They charged straight into the ...

The nuclear energy market cooled for roughly a decade after the Fukushima disaster in 2011, prompting many countries to pause ...

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, ...