Japan’s new earthquake-detection network lengthens warning times, and researchers in Wales have harnessed nuclear blast ...

Nowhere is truly ‘safe’ from fallout and other consequences like contamination of food and water supplies and prolonged radiation exposure.” These are the words of John Erath, Senior Policy Director ...

The destruction of uranium enrichment sites that support Iran's nuclear program would not likely have severe environmental ...

The waves also struck the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, which is 150 miles north of Tokyo. Three of the six reactors at the plant suffered severe core damage and released hydrogen and ...

She uses it to detect gamma rays, a telltale sign of the radioactive particles that escaped when three reactors melted down at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in March 2011 after an undersea ...

The in-depth story of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Disaster On March 11, 2011, the Japanese islands were struck by an earthquake of enormous force. For six minutes the ground was shaking ...

February 8, 2024 at 16:15 JST The site where water leaked from a radioactive water purification system at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant (Provided by Tokyo Electric Power Co.) ...

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is seen from the nearby Ukedo fishing port in Namie town, northeastern Japan, on Aug. 24, 2023. Highly radioactive water leaked from a treatment machine ...

The Fukushima-Dachii nuclear plant started its third release of nuclear wastewater on Nov. 2 as scientists warn that seafood products from the Pacific Ocean could be contaminated.

The tsunami-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant began its third release of treated and diluted radioactive wastewater into the sea Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023 after Japanese officials said ...

In August 2023, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) began discharging treated water from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (FDNPS) into the sea. Independent monitoring, sampling and ...

The Chernobyl and (to a lesser extent) Fukushima nuclear accidents contaminated large areas of land with low-level radioactivity. After both accidents, huge efforts were taken to decontaminate the ...