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Plant’s owners hope analysis of tiny sample will help to establish how to safely decommission facility

Discoveries made in pursuit of nuclear fusion have potentially huge practical applications in everything from curing cancer to superior batteries for EVs

UN-approved release to go ahead despite China’s ban on all Japanese sea imports following first batch

Reports of abusive behaviour towards Japanese citizens in China in response to wastewater release at nuclear site

Plant in China releases water with higher amounts of tritium, scientist says, calling into question the reason for seafood ban imposed on Japan

Rafael Grossi met with protests in Seoul during visit to try to calm fears over radioactive water discharge

IAEA report says discharge would have ‘negligible radiological impact on people and the environment’

Comments come as IAEA boss visits Japan to deliver results of safety report on planned discharge of nuclear-contaminated water

High court in Japan agreed defendants could not have predicted the massive tsunami that crippled the power plant and triggered a nuclear meltdown

Japan’s prime minister is pushing for as many as 17 nuclear reactors to be switched back on, more than a decade on from the meltdown at Fukushima

Firm’s president at time of disaster among five defendants found liable for £80bn in damage by Tokyo court

Mounting tensions with Russia, a global pandemic and a reckless scramble for nuclear energy: the echoes of 1957 are alarming – we would do well to heed them

Japanese measures including turning down the heating and slower trains could ease pressure on British households, say experts

Japanese energy-saving campaign could hold key to easing pressure on British households, say experts

Between 2016 and 2018, the multi-disciplinary team studied wild boar and rat snakes across a range of radiation exposures in Fukushima. The team examined biomarkers of DNA damage and stress and did not find any significant...