A tsunami alert following an earthquake off Japan's east coast, near to were the Fukushima nuclear plant is located, has been lifted.

Workers trying to clean-up the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan have spilled four tonnes of radioactive water.

Tokyo will host the Olympics and Paralympics in 2020 after seeing off rivals Madrid and Istanbul in dramatic circumstances to win the vote.

It has emerged that radiation levels at the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan are 18 times higher than previously suggested.

Contaminated water with dangerously high levels of radiation is leaking from a storage tank at Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, the most serious setback to the clean-up of the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl.

Kawauchi, a farming village 30km from the site of the world’s worst atomic disaster in 25 years, feared for its future as radiation from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant soaked into the soil.

Russia and India signed weapons deals worth billions of dollars today as president Vladimir Putin sought to further boost ties with an old ally.

Genetic mutations have been found in three generations of butterflies near Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.

For 70-year-old Toshiko Murakami, memories of the terrifying earthquake and tsunami that destroyed much of her seaside town and swept away her sister brought fresh tears, exactly a year after the disaster.

People across Japan today remembered the massive earthquake and tsunami that struck the nation one year ago, killing just over 19,000 people and unleashing the world’s worst nuclear crisis in a quarter century.

A member of staff from the UK's Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has lost a USB stick containing a safety assessment of a nuclear power plant.

The owner of Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant was planning a reassessment of tsunami risks just before last year’s disaster, a briefing paper indicates.

A 6.0 magnitude earthquake has struck Japan today.

Japanese prime minister Yoshihiko Noda replaced five members of his Cabinet today in a bid to win more co-operation from the opposition to raise the sales tax and rein in the country’s bulging fiscal deficit.

A strong earthquake registering magnitude 6.1 has shaken northern Japan, reports say.

Riot police fired tear gas at anti-nuclear protesters in a Normandy field today as activists damaged a railway line and delayed the departure of a train carrying recycled uranium to Germany.

Workers at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant have been praised for their heroics after an earthquake and tsunami struck the facility earlier this year.

HONDA’S human-shaped robot can now run faster, balance itself on uneven surfaces, hop on one foot and pour a drink.

RADIATION fallout from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant poses a growing threat to Japan’s food chain as unsafe levels of cesium found in beef on supermarket shelves were also detected in more vegetables and the ocean.

A strong earthquake has hit northern Japan in the same area as the one that left 22,000 people dead just a few months ago.

JAPAN has increased its beef imports by 11% from this time last year, largely due to health fears relating to fallout from the Fukushima nuclear plant.

Sellafield has been named among other sites in Britain for the construction of eight new privately owned nuclear power plants.

In Japan, a clean-up operation at the Fukushima nuclear plant has had to be abandoned after officials became alarmed by a jump in radiation levels.

A third worker has died at Japan's troubled Fukushima nuclear plant, just 50 minutes after starting work.

Workers today entered the reactor building of Unit 1 at Japan’s damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant for the first time since just after the earthquake and tsunami which devastated the site.

REFERRING to the recent incident at the Fukushima nuclear plant, Adi Roche says “If one of the most advanced countries can’t cope with nuclear power, it proves how dangerous it is” (April 27).

Japanese farmers took to the streets in Tokyo today demanding compensation for radiation contamination to their crops and livestock from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.

A MAJOR aftershock rocked north-east Japan yesterday and a tsunami warning was issued for the coast devastated by last month’s huge quake and tsunami that crippled a nuclear power plant.

Japan has been rattled by a strong aftershock and tsunami warning nearly a month after a devastating earthquake and tsunami flattened the north-eastern coast.

JAPANESE Prime Minister Naoto Kan said yesterday he was ready for a long fight to bring a quake- hit nuclear plant under control but was convinced Japan would overcome the world’s worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl in 1986.

Japan says the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant will have to be shut down - after sustaining catastrophic damage during the earthquake and tsunami.

Low levels of radioactive iodine believed to be from the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan have been detected in the UK.

Mounting problems, including incorrect radiation figures and a shortage of storage tanks, have stymied emergency workers as they tried to nudge Japan’s stricken nuclear complex back from the edge of disaster.

Radioactivity in contaminated water in one reactor unit at a damaged Japanese nuclear power plant tested 10 million times higher than normal, forcing the evacuation of workers and again delaying efforts to bring the complex under control, the plant’s operator said today.

Officials are racing to restore electricity to Japan’s leaking nuclear plant, but getting the power flowing will hardly be the end of their battle: with its mangled machinery and partly melted reactor cores, bringing the complex under control is a monstrous job.

A number of workers at the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan have been evacuated this morning.

Power has been restored to all six of the nuclear reactors at the quake-stricken Fukushima nuclear plant.

Northern Japan has been hit by an earthquake, not far from the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) offered reassurances today that the radiation risk from Japan's nuclear crisis remains highly localised, with no sign it threatens anywhere else in Asia.

The FTSE 100 Index bounced back from six straight sessions in the red today as world markets regained their poise.

The Department of Foreign Affairs is today asking Irish citizens in the north-east of Japan and Tokyo to decide whether they need to remain in those areas, given the developing situation.