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High court in Japan agreed defendants could not have predicted the massive tsunami that crippled the power plant and triggered a nuclear meltdown

Japan’s prime minister is pushing for as many as 17 nuclear reactors to be switched back on, more than a decade on from the meltdown at Fukushima

Firm’s president at time of disaster among five defendants found liable for £80bn in damage by Tokyo court

Japanese measures including turning down the heating and slower trains could ease pressure on British households, say experts

Japanese energy-saving campaign could hold key to easing pressure on British households, say experts

Fukushima plant operator Tepco suffers blow to plans to resume at its only operable atomic facility

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...