Tokyo (AFP) Sept 15, 2013 - Japan Sunday began switching off its last operating nuclear reactor for an inspection, with no date scheduled for a restart amid strong public hostility towards atomic power.
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 12, 2012 - Japan will abandon nuclear power within the next three decades under new government policy on the post-Fukushima energy mix, a newspaper said Wednesday.
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 14, 2012 - Japan on Friday said it planned to phase out nuclear power over three decades in an apparent bow to public pressure after last year's Fukushima disaster, the worst atomic accident in a generation.
Vienna (AFP) Sept 19, 2011 - Japan's minister handling the Fukushima crisis told a gathering of the UN atomic agency Monday his country would have a safer future, after a massive anti-nuclear rally in Tokyo.
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 06, 2014 - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe may have hoped that a 40-year-old mother-of-two with impeccable political pedigree might prove the acceptable face of nuclear power when he appointed her industry minister.
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 10, 2014 - Japan's nuclear watchdog Wednesday gave a green light to plans to restart two reactors, more than three years after the Fukushima disaster.
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 10, 2015 - A Japanese nuclear power plant started commercial operations on Thursday for the first time after two years of shutdown triggered by the Fukushima crisis.
Vienna (AFP) Sept 20, 2007 - The Japanese nuclear safety body examining the damage at the world's largest nuclear plant in Japan, hit by a powerful earthquake in July, declined to say Thursday when the plant might re-open.
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 16, 2013 - Japan went nuclear-free on Monday after switching off its last operating reactor for inspection, and local media said a restart of any reactors is unlikely at least until early next year.
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 11, 2014 - The publisher of Japan's leading newspaper apologised to readers Thursday for several serious errors in its reporting, retracting an article that claimed workers abandoned their posts during the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 21, 2014 - Japan's new industry minister Yuko Obuchi said Sunday the resource-poor nation should be realistic about its energy needs as the government tries to convince a sceptical public on the necessity of nuclear power.
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 19, 2012 - Japan on Wednesday launched a new independent nuclear regulatory body in response to claims that cosy relationships and an overly powerful industry were responsible for the disaster at Fukushima.
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 19, 2013 - Japan's prime minister was due Thursday to tour the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant less than two weeks after he assured the world it was under control - despite huge problems at the site.
Paris (AFP) Sept 15, 2016 - As Britain greenlights its first new nuclear power plant in more than 20 years, experts diverged Thursday on the role of nuclear energy in the quest to cap global warming at less than two degrees Celsius.
Washington (AFP) Sept 17, 2014 - Iran cannot convince the world that its current ability to enrich uranium is acceptable, the top US negotiator said on Tuesday ahead of new nuclear talks with global powers.
Moscow (AFP) Sept 12, 2007 - Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki and Russia's nuclear chief, Sergei Kiriyenko, held talks in Moscow on Wednesday as the Islamic republic tried to salvage the stalled construction of its first atomic power station.
