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Futaba to reopen for start of Olympic torch relay after being deserted for nine years

Japan aims to power region, scene of 2011 meltdown, with 100% renewable energy by 2040

Greenpeace calls for fresh monitoring of region where nuclear disaster occurred

More than a million tonnes of contaminated water lies in storage but power company says it will run out of space by 2022

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

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

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...

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

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...

Robot spots suspected debris of melted fuel for first time since 2011 earthquake and tsunami destroyed the plant

Three men plead not guilty to professional negligence in the only criminal action targeting officials since the triple meltdown

Court rules government should have used regulatory powers to force nuclear plant’s operator to take preventive measures