Armed with measuring devices, groups of citizens are embracing science to monitor radioactive fallout — and regain control of ...

The new proposal says nuclear energy should account for 20 percent of Japan’s energy supply in 2040, up from just 8.5 percent last year, while expanding renewables to 40-50 percent from 22.9 ...

The new proposal says nuclear energy should account for 20 percent of Japan's energy supply in 2040, up from just 8.5 percent last year, while expanding renewables to 40-50 percent from 22.9 ...

Under its revised energy plan, the Ministry of Industry now prioritizes PSCs on Section 0 of its plan wherein Japan aims to develop PSC sections generating 20 gigawatts of electricity equivalent to 20 ...

The economy ministry will remove the statement “Japan will minimize its dependency on nuclear power” from the seventh Strategic Energy Plan, which was added in 2014 three years after the ...

The new proposal says nuclear energy should account for 20% of Japan’s energy supply in 2040, up from just 8.5% last year, while expanding renewables to 40-50% from 22.9% and reducing coal-fired ...

Annual power demand for Hokkaido is expected to increase by 1.2% on average into fiscal 2034, a report has said.

Japan's new energy policy aims to increase renewables to up to 50% of electricity needs by 2040 while maximizing nuclear power use, reversing post-Fukushima phaseout. The strategy includes next ...

No problems were detected at the various monitoring posts for nuclear plants in the area. Japan is frequently hit by earthquakes due to its location along the "Ring of Fire," an arc of volcanoes ...

Several of Japan's nuclear power plants were rattled by an ... making the region a significant area of seismic concern. One of the most devastating quakes in this area occurred off Shikoku in ...

Surging demand for AI has sparked a race to secure supplies of nuclear power. WSJ’s Peter Landers traveled to the Fukushima exclusion zone in Japan to explore the challenges of atomic energy's ...

(Mainichi/Akihiro Hirata) As the global state of affairs becomes more daunting and the risk of countries using nuclear weapons grows, it is time for Japan, the only nation to have been attacked by ...