TOKYO — Japan declared a 12-mile area evacuated around its tsunami-crippled nuclear power plant a no-go zone today, urging residents to abide by the order for their own safety. A day earlier, the U.N.

In Fukushima Prefecture, the region which experienced a nuclear accident at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in 2011, emergency response specialists from Ukraine, Southeast Asia and Australia ...

A wild boar with visible traits linked to domestic pig ancestry in Fukushima’s evacuation zone. After the 2011 nuclear accident, escaped pigs interbred with wild boar, creating a rare hybridization ...

Back in 2021, in the thick of pandemic mania, The Register gleefully reported that "radioactive hybrid terror pigs" were thriving in Japan's Fukushima exclusion zone ...

TOMIOKA, Japan — Whenever Kazuhiro Onuki goes home, to his real home that is, the 66-year-old former librarian dons protective gear from head to toe and hangs a dosimeter around his neck. Grass grows ...

TOKYO, April 6 (Reuters) - Soil in most areas outside a 30 km (18.6 miles) zone around the damaged Fukushima nuclear power station is safe enough for farming to resume, Japanese authorities said after ...