Japan's nuclear regulator on Wednesday gave the green light for operations to begin at an interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel, the country's first such facility outside the premises of a ...

The company is yet to announce a date on which operations will resume at the nuclear reactor located in Onagawa power plant.

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The government, its makeup in flux after the governing party lost seats this week, will soon need to make decisions that will ...

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The issue arose when a device designed to improve the precision of neutron data readings stopped working partway through ...

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Tohoku Electric said the radiation situation at the plant located in Onagawa town and Ishinomaki city remained normal.

Nuclear power used to account for around a quarter of Japan’s electricity mix prior to the disaster, but it was at just 6% as ...

Growing demand for electricity, including to power the increased use of AI, is spurring on restarts of Japan’s nuclear power plants. On October 29, 2024, Tōhoku Electric Power Company brought ...

The restart of the nuclear power plant closest to the epicenter of Japan’s devastating 2011 earthquake this week was hailed by the government as a major step toward reviving atomic energy. It’s also ...

Japan's Sustech is set to raise $50 million from investors, valuing the energy tech startup at more than $800 million, people ...