Japanese officials plan to start releasing treated but still slightly radioactive wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi ... accident to category 7, the highest level on the International ...

Iwaki, my home town, stood on the edge of uncertainty – part of it was close to the Fukushima Daiichi ... radiation levels, based on the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety ...

It was history. On March 11, 2011, the Great East Japan Earthquake, magnitude 9.0, struck 80 miles off the Northeast Coast of Japan, generating a series ...

open image in gallery A bird flies within the premises of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Futaba town, northeastern Japan on 20 February 2025 (AP) The disaster triggered one of the ...

After the accident, to minimize residents' exposure to radiation, soil tainted with ... adjacent to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. The facility in this area, which used to house ...

A robot has begun its second attempt to extract melted nuclear ... Fukushima Daiichi power plant in Japan, as part of a long and complex decommissioning effort following the 2011 nuclear disaster.

The disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi ... nuclear plants are prone to catastrophic meltdowns; it’s that people are prone to catastrophic thinking. “You see time and time again that fear of ...

Fukushima was the worst nuclear accident since ... before the 10th anniversary of the disaster, the U.N. Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR), which comprises 52 ...

The Mainichi Shimbun answers some common questions readers may have about what Japan will do with soil removed around the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power ... After the accident, to minimize residents' ...