Japan on Monday marked 13 years since a massive earthquake and tsunami hit the country’s northern coasts. Nearly 20,000 ...

A new study shows that a single radioactive cloud was responsible for a large share of the nuclear fallout during the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster on 11 March 2011. The work is published in the ...

TOKYO - Radiation levels in areas affected by the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant operated by Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. have fallen somewhat over the past 15 years due ...

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 ...

Wild boar roaming the forests around the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant now carry domestic pig DNA, a genetic legacy of the chaos that followed the 2011 nuclear disaster. When residents ...

OKUMA, Japan (AP) — The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant's radiation levels have significantly dropped since the cataclysmic meltdown in Japan 14 years ago. Workers walk around in many areas ...

Topsoil was collected as part of large-scale decontamination efforts after the devastating meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant – Copyright AFP Richard A ...

TOKYO, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Radiation readings around tanks holding contaminated water at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant have spiked by more than a fifth to their highest levels, Japan's nuclear ...

TOKYO (AP) — Highly radioactive water leaked from a treatment machine at the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, but no one was injured and radiation monitoring shows no impact to the ...