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Workers successfully removed the first fuel from a storage tank at Fukushima Daiichi, while at the Ohi plant a second reactor has come back online. Recent developments related to the Tokyo Electric Power Co. reactors damaged by Japan's massive earthquake and tsunami last year include: Fuel Removed...

After 57 days without nuclear power, energy-short Japan restarted its first reactor since the accidents at Fukushima Daiichi. Before last year's earthquake and tsunami blacked out the six-unit Tokyo Electric Power Co. plant, the country's 50 reactors provided nearly 30 percent of its electricity...

This week, Japan prepared to bring its first reactor back into service since the Fukushima Daiichi accidents last year, while on Wednesday Tokyo Electric Power Co. detected a record amount of radiation in the basement of Fukushima unit 1. Recent developments related to the Tokyo Electric Power Co. nuclear...

Problems with the spent fuel cooling system for Fukushima Daiichi unit 4 and a proposal to restart the Ohi plant only for the summer months highlighted the nuclear news from Japan this week. Recent developments related to the accidents at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima Daiichi plant following...

The local assembly in the Japanese town of Ohi that hosts Kansai Electric Power Co's Ohi nuclear plant agreed on Monday it was necessary to restart two offline reactors, its chairman said. Power shortages are a concern as all 50 of Japan's nuclear power plants have been shut down following...

Japan will shut down its last operating nuclear reactor this weekend, leaving the country without nuclear power for the first time over 40 years. On Saturday, engineers will begin work to shut down the No. 3 reactor at the Tomari atomic power plant in Hokkaido, which is due for its regular maintenance...

Japanese Trade Minister Yukio Edano has announced that two of Japan's nuclear reactors - the No. 3 and No. 4 units at Ohi - have been declared safe and will need to be restarted. The reactors - owned by Kansai Electric Power Co. - will be the first in Japan to restart since the Fukushima crisis last...

Kansai Electric Power Co. has announced it will spend $2.5 billion on safety upgrades, the company announced Monday. Company president Makoto Yagi said the investment will go toward protecting Kansai's 11 reactors from earthquakes, tsunami and other accidents. “Though I think we have...