Japan on Monday marked 13 years since a massive earthquake and tsunami hit the country’s northern coasts. Nearly 20,000 ...
Fifteen years after the nation’s worst nuclear accident, the upper floors of the No. 1 reactor at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear ...
More than two years have passed since a major earthquake and devastating tsunami damaged the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, and still not a single case of radiation illness or death occurred ...
Black plastic bags, filled with contaminated soil or debris, piled upon each other in Fukushima in March 2019. Credit: Maxime Polleri Subscribe for ads-free reading When Fukushima prefecture invited ...
ODAKA, Japan — Fifteen years after the 2011 nuclear disaster, color-coded radiation maps hang on the wall of Futabaya Ryokan, the family-run inn Tomoko Kobayashi operates in her near-deserted hometown ...
According to Ken Buesseler, a senior scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, who also runs the crowd-funded, citizen science seawater sampling project, Our Radioactive Ocean, the levels of ...
The dumping of radioactive wastewater from the rubbished Fukushima nuclear reactor site in Japan was suspended for a day last March, after a 5.98-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of the site, ...
The damaged Unit 1 reactor, back, and the exhaust stack shared by the Unit 1 and 2 reactors are seen at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, operated by Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings ...
OKUMA, Japan — The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant's radiation levels have significantly dropped since the cataclysmic meltdown in Japan 14 years ago. Workers walk around in many areas wearing ...