Fukushima Daiichi

Comparing Fukushima to Chernobyl

This Sunday (11 September) marks the six-month anniversary of the triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan.

Japanese prime minister wants to move country towards renewable energy

Japan’s prime minister says he wants the country to learn from its ongoing crisis and become less reliant on nuclear energy.

Nuclear reactors in Japan will run “stress tests”

Japan has said it will run “stress tests” on all its nuclear reactors in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi atomic accident sparked by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster.


Japan taps US robots for reactor cleanup help

In this country of break-dancing androids and artificially intelligent pets, nuclear cleanup crews on the tsunami-ravaged northern coast are depending on U.S.-made robots to enter damaged reactor units where it is still too dangerous for humans to tread.