The in-depth story of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Disaster On March 11, 2011, the Japanese islands were struck by an earthquake of enormous force. For six minutes the ground was shaking ...

Two Japanese towns that host the Fukushima nuclear power plant stood to gain a lot from the promises of nuclear power. But after one of the worst nuclear disasters, it's clear how much they've lost.

Even with years of rigorous emergency drills, the community around Fukushima was unprepared. Indian Point lacks firefighting equipment, and the evacuation plan would take nine-and-a-half hours to ...

Japan could soon start releasing treated wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the ocean. They’re running out of space to store the radiation-tainted water at the plant, which ...

Tsunehisa Katsumata, Top Executive in Power Plant Meltdown, Dies at 84. He was sued and prosecuted for his actions as chairman of the Japanese power company that ran the Fukushima nuclear facility ...

Tritium occurs in nature, and it also occurs in wastewater that many nuclear power plants around the world release into the ocean. It has a half-life of 12.5 years, which means it turns into ...

The 2011 Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster only solidified a long-running anti-nuclear Zeitgeist in Japanese society stemming back to the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and ...

Fukushima Daiichi, the decommissioned power plant, is like no place I've ever been. James Martin/CNET Each day, thousands of workers struggle to clean up the disabled 860-acre site.

The damaged nuclear reactors at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, which was crippled by a March 11, 2011 tusnami. Pallava Bagla/Corbis/Getty ...

Nuclear fuel in the reactor cores melted after the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami in March 2011 caused the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant's cooling systems to fail.