Japan is planning to earmark USD 970 million for a storage facility for tens of thousands of tonnes of soil contaminated with radiation from the Fukushima disaster, a report said today.

A new study finds that radioactive Iodine from Fukushima has caused a significant increase in hypothyroidism among babies in California, 5,000 miles across the Pacific Ocean.

New Delhi: Now, operators of nuclear plants in the country will have to report any "extraordinary nuclear event", including radiation and leakage of radioactive material, to the atomic regulator wi

On the eve of the ministerial round of discussions next week, Japan stunned the rest of the countries on Friday at the climate talks here by announcing that it was ditching its earlier emission red

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center did not issue an alert

A 5.5-magnitude earthquake struck off the east coast of Japan today, the US Geological Survey reported, but no tsunami warning was issued.
The quake hit at a depth of 26 kilometres (16 miles) at 3:13 am (1813 GMT today), about 324 kilometres east of the town of Namie, the USGS said.

Human rights experts, including a U.N. special rapporteur, are criticizing a U.N.

United Nation experts are encouraging the Japanese government to better communicate contamination goals with the public but are otherwise very positive about the progress that has been made in the

Contaminated water remains the greatest challenge at the Fukushima nuclear plant after the 2011 meltdown, the worst atomic disaster in a generation, the U.N.‘s nuclear watchdog said Tuesday.

The Sri Lankan government today expressed concern over a possible nuclear threat from the controversial Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in Tamil Nadu in Southern India as it went into operation for

Britain is set to sign a deal with France's EDF for the first nuclear plant to start construction in Europe since Japan's Fukushima disaster raised safety concerns worldwide, at a cost estimated at