Senior government officials have recently made remarks that appear to support a suggestion that Japan should select the ...

Neighboring municipalities have grown irate over a surprise plan to build an interim storage facility here for spent nuclear ...

The Kishida administration has unveiled a policy initiative to deal with high-level radioactive waste from nuclear power plants through “united government-wide” efforts. The government plans ...

The Japanese government and nuclear power plant operators have long grappled with how to dispose of spent fuel and other high-level radioactive waste. Authorities finally settled on the approach ...

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 ...

Earlier, a senior official proposed disposing of radioactive materials on Russia?s Kuril Islands, resulting in backlash Japanese Prime Min ...

TOKYO, April 20 (Xinhua) -- Japan on Friday started the fifth round ... and it is completely unpredictable when the nuclear waste and contaminated materials can be removed, Hideki Taki noted ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba issued an apology after comments were made by a senior official from Japan's Nuclear Waste Management Organiza ...

Beijing imposed the ban in August 2023, in the wake of a row over the release of waste water from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant. The Chinese ministry statement on the meeting did not ...

[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 ...