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Workers begin to empty storage pool – but more critical removal of melted fuel from reactors themselves will be more challenging

From Forbes Michael Shellenberger Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Energy I write about energy and the environment After a tsunami struck the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan eight years ago...

Eight years after the disaster, not a single location will take the millions of cubic metres of radioactive soil that remain

Pumping £5bn into a new plant in north Wales as a way to fight climate change is a solution at odds with the rest of the world

Despite promises of revitalisation from Japan’s government, seven years on from the nuclear disaster the area is still desolate

Seven years after the nuclear disaster, 50,000 people have yet to return to their homes, but the dream of going back endures

Sue Roaf writes that evacuation plans for Hinkley Point would have to involve at least a million people; while Diarmuid Foley says that, in the modern world, the route to weapons-grade material is not taken through the civilian...

Fukushima cleanup continues over six years after the 2011 disaster - and the country hasn't yet decided what to do with one million metric tons of radioactive water currently stored at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power...

Fukushima cleanup continues over six years after the 2011 disaster - and the country hasn't yet decided what to do with one million metric tons of radioactive water currently stored at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power...

Court rules that Japanese government could have done more to prevent meltdown at plant caused by tsunami

Tepco, still struggling to decommission Fukushima Daiichi, gets initial approval to start two reactors at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa

Dozens of cities and towns in Japan have quietly shifted from traditional utility-based grid power system to a more local, resilient model of generating and storing energy where it is used. After significant damage caused...

Nature has come for Fukushima. Six years after a nuclear meltdown resulted in a mass exodus of neighboring residents, the Fukushima prefecture is slowly being engulfed by a sea of green. Access to the Fukushima Exclusion...

Six years after the Fukushima Daiichi meltdowns, there's still a lot of cleanup to be done. Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) deployed an underwater robot to assess damage inside the Unit 3 reactor in Japan last week,...

An underwater robot has captured images of what is believed to be suspected debris of melted nuclear fuel inside one of the reactors at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan...