The 10th anniversary of the disaster will be in March next year.

A Japanese government panel has roughly accepted a draft proposal for releasing into the sea massive amounts of radioactive water now being stored at the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant.

More than 4,700 units of fuel rods remain inside the three melted reactors and two others that survived the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

Nearly nine years after the 2011 triple meltdowns at the plant, the radioactive water continues to accumulate as water used to keep the cores cool leaks from the damaged reactors.

The operator of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant for the first time is removing fuel from a cooling pool at one of three reactors that melted down in the 2011 disaster.

 A magnitude 7.3 earthquake strikes off Fukushima in Japan. A tsunami warning has been issued.

A 6.8-magnitude earthquake has hit Japan's northern coast near the nuclear power plant crippled in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.