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 make his first visit this week to storage facilities for vast quantities of soil contaminated in the 2011 Fukushima disaster.

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,