Radiation 'hot spots' beyond the existing Fukushima evacuation zone spur Japanese officials to order more areas to be emptied. Residents are being given a month to leave.

The Fukushima nuclear disaster unfolded in Japan in 2011 when reactors at the Daiichi Power Planet melted down. Over 160,000 people evacuated, leaving behind a region intensely contaminated with ...

AP just released stunning photos of the Fukushima evacuation zone taken in the months after the nuclear disaster in the region following the devastating tsunami on March 11, 2011. Photographer ...

The incident forced the evacuation of more than 150,000 people across 440 square miles, but animals near the abandoned towns seem to be thriving.

More than a decade after Japan’s worst nuclear disaster, the town that hosts the disabled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant finally lifted its evacuation order on Tuesday, allowing former ...

The 2011 earthquake and tsunami that caused Fukushima's nuclear plant to melt down prompted the Japanese goverment to evacuate ... resulting in a rewilding of the evacuation zones,” Thomas ...

The Nakashimas are not breaking the law by returning to their house just inside the 12-mile (20-km) voluntary exclusion zone around the Fukushima nuclear power plant. At least not yet.

So far, radiation readings in Tokyo and elsewhere in Japan — although increasing above normal — suggest that very little radiation has escaped the 12.5-mile evacuation zone.

Nearly a decade after the nuclear accident in Fukushima, Japan, researchers from the University of Georgia have found that wildlife populations are abundant in areas void of human life. The camera ...

A brother and sister returned to their hometown of Naraha, encompassed in the government's mandatory evacuation zone by the Fukushima Daiichia nuclear complex, to collect some belongings and clean ...