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.

Japan is facing difficulties selecting a final disposal site for high-level radioactive waste left from spent fuel at nuclear power plants across the nation. First-stage surveys to find locations ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Japan has millions of tons of water that is has been using to cool the destroyed ...

TEPCO and the government are considering options for the release of 900 storage tanks of radioactive waste currently ... following the triple nuclear meltdown and Japan has steadily challenged ...

Japan has approved a plan to release more than one million tonnes of contaminated water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant ... is similar to the disposal of waste water at other plants ...

Decommissioning work for the Fukushima power plant will take four decades Japan says it will release more than a million tonnes of water into the sea from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear power ...

The byproduct of nuclear energy is still associated with atomic bombs or nuclear meltdowns, but what comes out of reactors is ...

The Nuclear Waste Management Organization of Japan has concluded it can move on to a preliminary survey that involves drilling work in Suttsu and Kamoenai.

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 has abruptly scrapped the use of a colorful cartoon mascot aimed at promoting the release of wastewater from nuclear sites, after widespread criticism. Locals said that the cuteness of the ...