Fourteen years since one of the worst nuclear accidents in history, Japan is getting creative in the effort to convince ...

Japan plans to use some of the slightly radioactive soil removed from across Fukushima prefecture on flower beds outside ...

According to the severity scale of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the Fukushima emergency was a level 7, equivalent to Chernobyl. The Fukushima countryside was no longer a fruit ...

The Chernobyl and (to a lesser extent) Fukushima nuclear accidents contaminated ... up was valuable in many areas where people remained living. Decontamination also allowed agricultural land ...

They’re mothers who are worried about the legacy being left for their children after the decision to release treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific ...

Many of them have moved on, but others are living in temporary housing ... of the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl in 1986. The radiation at the Fukushima plant is still so powerful it ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about energy and the environment. After a tsunami struck the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan eight years ago ...

Germany committed to shutting its nuclear grid down entirely after the 2011 Fukushima ... the upheaval of the Chernobyl disaster among the relocated community and found a legacy of depression ...

Who you are matters too: Genetics, lifestyle, and age all play a role. Around Fukushima, those living closest to the plant had the highest exposures, because the particles became less harmful as ...

In the first genetic study of any large mammal in the area around Chernobyl, DNA collected from feral dogs living near the power ... and their radioactive legacy — in the lean times ahead.

Mousseau’s career has focused on biological responses to radiation, primarily looking at plants, insects and rodents in the areas around Chernobyl and Fukushima ... who were living in this ...