A nuclear accident at Tokaimura, Japan, exposed Hisashi Ouchi to a record-breaking radiation dose. His 83-day decline was agonizing, with organ failure and extreme suffering.

After the accident, nuclear power as a proportion of Japan’s electricity mix fell from about 30% to 6% in 2019. ... Without nuclear energy, Terazawa said Japan would need to import more costly ...

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, damaged by a massive March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami, is seen from the nearby Ukedo fishing port in Namie town, northeastern Japan, on Aug. 24, 2023.

As Japan approaches the 13th anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, efforts to clean up the site are ongoing. The country aims to remove damaged fuel debris.

Radiation from the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011 still threatens the small village of Tsushima. Citizen Scientists Reclaim Japan’s Nuclear Disaster Zone.

Efforts by Japanese nuclear fuel manufacturers to develop accident tolerant fuel (ATF) materials are making progress, and their commercialization is currently expected between 2030 and 2035 after key ...

A Japanese nuclear disaster on September 30, 1999, was the world's worst since Chernobyl, and left the world's 'most radioactive' man with 'melted skin.' That victim was Hisashi Ouchi, a worker at ...

Japan’s traditionally weak system for regulating nuclear safety, created by the long-dominant Liberal Democratic Party and its allies, allowed what came to be known as the 3.11 disaster (after the ...

A HORRIFYING nuclear disaster left a man crying blood, suffering constant heart attacks and even made his skin melt away. Hisashi Ouchi, 35, was the most radioactive man in history after the Japane… ...

On 11 March, 2011, a massive magnitude 9.1 earthquake shook the west coast of Japan, with the epicenter located at a shallow depth of 32 km, a mere 72 km off the coast of Oshika Peninsula, of the … ...

TOKYO >> Japan today marked the 12th anniversary of the massive earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster with a minute of silence, ...

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is seen on March 17. Japan on Thursday adopted a new policy promoting greater use of nuclear energy to ensure a stable power supply amid global fuel ...