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 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.

Permanent nuclear waste storage facilities can take decades to study and build. At its disposal site ... Britain and Japan, according to the World Nuclear Association. And in the U.S., there ...

TOKYO, April 20 (Xinhua) -- Japan on Friday started the fifth round of release of nuclear-contaminated wastewater from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the Pacific Ocean.

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 ...

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 ...

HULU LANGAT: As Japan began to release contaminated ... the scheduled discharge of 1.3 million tonnes of wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear plant despite assurances of safety from the Japanese ...

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 ...

The IAEA Director General has been in Japan this week, supporting local efforts to enhance nuclear safety and environmental remediation, as the country prepares to restart its nuclear power plants ...

The IAEA published its final report on the recycling and disposal of the soil in September, saying Japan's approach was ...

[AP Photo] Japan's wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant said it began releasing a second batch of treated radioactive wastewater into the sea on Thursday after the first round of discharges ended ...

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 ...