Trade and industry minister Toshimitsu Motegi has extended an offer to help Saudi Arabia build nuclear power plants. In a meeting in Riyadh on Saturday with Waleed Hussain Abulfaraj, vice head of the King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy, Motegi suggested the ...
Fukushima residents forced out of their homes by the nuclear crisis plan to file group damages suits against the government and Tepco on the second anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake.
The United States is considering re-designating North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism in the event Pyongyang conducts another nuclear test.
Power went out for one minute at reactor 3 of Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Oi nuclear plant in Fukui Prefecture but the outage did not affect the unit's operation or cause a negative impact outside the facility, Kepco says.
North Korea, poised to conduct a nuclear test any day now, has posted a video on YouTube depicting a U.S. city resembling New York engulfed in flames after an apparent missile attack. The footage was uploaded Saturday by the North’s official website, Uriminzokkiri, which ...
Prosecutors question the former chief of the defunct Nuclear Safety Commission about delays in announcing radiation fallout data during the Fukushima crisis.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has chaired a high-level meeting that discussed a looming “great turn” in military capability, state media said Sunday, fueling expectations of an imminent nuclear test. Kim made a “historic” speech at the ruling party’s Central Military Commission meeting, ...
As North Korea warns that it plans its third nuclear test since 2006, outside governments and analysts are trying to determine a crucial question: Just what will Pyongyang’s scientists explode? The last two tests are believed to have been of plutonium devices. The next ...
With North Korea appearing set to detonate an atomic device, the U.N. agency that detected its two previous tests says it is prepared to confirm an explosion when it takes place. But experts argue it may be difficult to establish whether the blast is ...
Chuck Hagel, the likely next U.S. secretary of defense, would be the first to enter the Pentagon as a public advocate for sharply reducing the number of U.S. nuclear weapons, possibly without equivalent cuts by Russia. The former Nebraskan Republican senator is a supporter ...
The Japan Atomic Energy Agency is assembling equipment for an experiment to help achieve nuclear fusion power generation. The work began Monday, and the equipment will be assembled over six years at the agency’s Naka Fusion Institute in Naka, Ibaraki Prefecture. The experiment, scheduled ...
Japanese and U.S. officials met Monday to discuss ways to dissuade North Korea from carrying out a third nuclear test after Pyongyang’s declaration last week that it will perform one at a “higher level.” During talks in Tokyo, Shinsuke Sugiyama, director general of the ...
