The United Nations nuclear watchdog chief visited Japan's stricken Fukushima plant on Wednesday (Feb 19), the day after Tokyo approved an energy plan that marks a

The UN nuclear watchdog chief will visit storage facilities for vast quantities of soil contaminated in the 2011 Fukushima disaster for the first time this week. That is on top of the monster task of decommissioning the Fukushima Daiichi plant,

UN nuclear chief arrives in Japan to inspect Fukushima soil storage - Rafael Grossi to assess contaminated soil removed after 2011 nuclear disaster as Japan grapples with disposal plan

On March 11, 2011, the Japanese islands were struck by an earthquake of enormous force. For six minutes the ground was shaking, turning whole towns into piles of rubble. But, while the struggle to recover from the most powerful earthquake in the history of Japan was going on,