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Keeping the meltdown-stricken Fukushima nuclear plant in northeastern Japan in stable condition requires a cast of thousands. Increasingly the plant's operator is struggling to find enough workers, a trend that many expect to worsen and hamper
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Rat linked to outage at Japan nuclear plant The apparent carcass of the rodent was visible inside the switchboard unit in a photo released by Tepco A rat may have caused this week's power outage at Japan's tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear power plant,
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Fukushima nuclear disaster as more U.S. servicemembers joined a lawsuit accusing the Japanese national utility of lying about the risks involved in an aid effort to the stricken area in 2011. Attorneys said the number of plaintiffs had grown to 26
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Japan (AP) Two years after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that killed nearly 19,000 in Japan, residents of coastal towns flattened by the wall of water are still trying to recover. The slow pace of reconstruction is taking a psychological toll on
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Japan (AP) Two years after a powerful earthquake and tsunami wrecked Japan's Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant, many towns nearby remain abandoned, too affected by radiation for residents to return for more than short visits. About 160,000 people were
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Like tens of thousands of people who lost everything in the tsunami that pulverized Japan's northeastern coast two years ago, 83-year-old Hide Sato is living in one-room temporary housing, and longing for a home of her own...The dozens of temporary
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The unnerving clicks of dosimeters are constant as people wearing white protective gear quickly visit the radiated no-go zones of decayed farms and empty storefronts. Evacuees huddle on blankets on gymnasium floors, waiting futilely for word of
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Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s tsunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, northeastern Japan, Thursday, July 5, 2012. Kyodo News/AP video The federal government has tried before to raise the cap, but the
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The crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant's No. Fukushima prefecture in this handout picture taken on Jan. 14. When an earthquake and tsunami battered the country's eastern reaches in March of last year, the associated power loss at the
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It's been over a year since natural disaster ravaged a nuclear plant in Fukushima and interrupted the lives of millions of Japanese. Scientists now fear though that contaminated water is on course to America, and it could be more toxic than thought.
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