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Japanese PM uses radioactive Fukushima soil in his garden to prove it is safe - The soil was removed from Fukushima during ...
A new analysis of data from Fukushima suggests children exposed to the March 2011 nuclear accident may be developing thyroid cancer at an elevated rate. But independent experts say that the study ...
Japan plans to use some of the slightly radioactive soil removed from across Fukushima prefecture on flower beds outside ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
Lawyer Kenichi Ido, second left, sitting among other lawyers representing plaintiffs who were children in Fukushima at the time of the 2011 nuclear disaster and later developed thyroid cancer, speaks ...
RADIOACTIVE soil from Fukushima will be used outside Japan’s government buildings in a bid to persuade the country that the soil is safe. Japan’s government revealed the bold move on ...
At the Fukushima nuclear power plant ... released a report in 2013 that said the disaster will not cause any observable increase in cancer rates in the region. Scientists both inside and outside ...
TOKYO (AP) — Six people who were children living in Fukushima at the time of the 2011 nuclear disaster and have since developed thyroid cancer filed a lawsuit Thursday demanding a utility pay ...
In this video series, the Post travels to Japan’s Fukushima coast to see first-hand efforts to rebuild a region decimated by the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster. We meet with ...
As efforts got underway Tuesday to retrieve a first sample of the highly radioactive debris festering in the depths of Japan's crippled Fukushima ... after the nuclear disaster have since lifted ...
An increase in thyroid cancer was found among children following the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine. The Fukushima prefectural government tested 380,000 residents aged 18 or younger at ...
At the Fukushima nuclear power plant ... released a report in 2013 that said the disaster will not cause any observable increase in cancer rates, external in the region. Scientists both inside ...