Fifteen years after the Fukushima Daiichi accident, Japan has restarted 15 reactors, Belgium and South Korea reversed nuclear phase-out policies, and global nu…
A magnitude-9.0 earthquake and tsunami knocked out power and cooling at Fukushima Daiichi, causing reactor core damage and an INES Level 7 accident -- the same top ratin…
With Tomari Unit 3's shutdown, Japan had zero operating nuclear reactors for the first time in decades -- before Fukushima, nuclear supplied roughly 30% of its electrici…
Sendai Unit 1 became the first Japanese reactor to restart under the new Nuclear Regulation Authority's stricter post-Fukushima safety standards.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine disrupted European gas supplies and sent prices sharply higher, forcing governments to reassess dependence on imported fossil fuels.
Germany completed the nuclear phase-out it accelerated after Fukushima, shutting Isar 2, Neckarwestheim 2 and Emsland for good.
More than 20 countries, including the US, France, Japan, South Korea and the UK, launched a declaration backing the goal of tripling global nuclear capacity by 2050 from…
Onagawa Unit 2 became the first boiling-water reactor -- the same design used at Fukushima Daiichi -- to return to operation anywhere in Japan since 2011.
Taiwan Power Co. shut Maanshan Unit 2, its last operating reactor, completing a phase-out policy pursued since 2016 -- the same year global nuclear generation hit a reco…
TEPCO's Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Unit 6 -- the world's largest nuclear plant by installed capacity -- reached commercial operation, becoming Japan's 15th restarted reactor and…
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