Japan plans to ease regulations to allow exports of large, disused equipment from nuclear power plants for overseas disposal as a way to reduce the mountains of radioactive waste accumulating at home.

The government plans to step up its efforts to find a local government willing to host a final disposal site for nuclear waste. The government should naturally assume the responsibility of dealing ...

Japan is running out of space for the contaminated water it uses to cool down nuclear reactors. Currently, the waste is stored in over 1,000 giant tanks, but the country is struggling with what to ...

The Japanese government's decision to use the ocean as a disposal site for treated water from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power ... storage space for the wastewater at Fukushima Daiichi ...

Japan will begin releasing a second batch of waste water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant from next week, its operator has said, an exercise that angered China and others when it began in ...

International Atomic Energy Agency approves Japan’s release of treated waste water from nuclear plant, but some scientists are still sceptical The UN’s nuclear watchdog has approved of the ...

Chubu Electric Power Co. began dismantling a nuclear reactor in Shizuoka Prefecture on Monday, making it the country's first commercial reactor to undergo the process, the utility said. The company ...