Japan’s embattled nuclear sector, struggling to restart some of its idled reactors, suffered a pair of setbacks this week as a court again ruled against the restart of Takahama Units…

It's been five years since the Great Tohoku Earthquake and tsunami prompted a crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan, but the world's nuclear power sector is still…

by Sonal Patel

Following rigorous safety checks, Kansai Electric Power Co. on February 1 restarted a unit that uses a uranium-plutonium mixed oxide (MOX) fuel at its Takahama nuclear plant in Japan's Fukui…

The second unit at Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Sendai nuclear facility in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, has restarted, and three more of the country's 43 operable reactors may soon follow suit. …

Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s restart of Sendai 1—the first Japanese reactor to begin operation under new safety standards after the Fukushima disaster—hit a technical hiccup last week, prompting the company…