The measures will bring the area in line with other parts of Japan that are proactively trying to retain residents.

A team of researchers in France are building on fundamental experimental research undertaken in the Ukrainian Chornobyl ...

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant following a strong earthquake, in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, Japan in this photo taken by Kyodo on March 17, 2022. Kyodo/Reuters.

Tanks containing water from the disabled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant are seen, at the power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, Japan, March 8, 2023. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon ...

Tokyo Electric Power Company says it plans to transport some spent nuclear fuel from its nuclear power stations in Fukushima ...

Fukushima Prefecture, an area encompassing 59 municipalities and a population of over 1.8 million people, is still recovering from rounds of disasters. Eight years ago, ...

The soil was removed from across the Fukushima prefecture as part of decontamination work following the 2011 nuclear disaster and has since been in interim storage. Some of it has since reached ...

A deadly 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Japan’s Fukushima prefecture on Wednesday, injuring dozens of people.. For some, the incident brought back painful memories of 2011 ...

Following the 2011 accident at TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), the IAEA and the Fukushima Prefecture agreed to cooperate on radiation monitoring and remediation. The Practical ...

The fate of Japan's Fukushima prefecture, where hundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated, appears to lie somewhere between the outcomes at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl. There were no ...

The epicenter of the quake was off the coast of Fukushima Prefecture, the site of a massive earthquake and tsunami in 2011 that killed thousands and caused meltdowns at a nuclear plant.

Flowers sit on a memorial in Namie, Japan. Less than five miles from the nuclear power plant that suffered meltdowns in 2011, the city in Fukushima prefecture looked like a ghost town until recently.