One of the surviving reactors at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant was loaded with fuel last summer and recently turned back on, ...

On April 26, 1986, the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near Pripyat in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), exploded, resulting in the worst nuclear disaster in history. The incident ...

Data centers consume tons of electricity and fresh water. According to Pew Research data, 4% of the United State's total electricity in 2024 went to data centers. Altogether, they consumed about 183 ...

It was the world’s worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986. Following the disaster, Japan shut down all 54 of its nuclear power stations including Kashiwazaki-Kariwa, which sits in the coastal ...

Japan restars a reactor at the world's largest nuclear plant nearly 15 years after the Fukushima disaster.

The reactor had been offline for over a decade, and the company wanted to fire it back up, but the reactor had different ...

Despite public opposition and the memory of the Fukushima disaster, Japan's government has approved a new energy plan aiming ...

(CNN) — Japanese authorities have approved a decision to restart the world’s biggest nuclear power plant, which has sat dormant for more than a decade following the Fukushima nuclear disaster, in a ...