The Fukushima nuclear disaster could still be radioactive for decades longer than expected, as there has been a setback in the plan for the removal of debris. Moreover, the recent tsunami warning ...

Temporary storage facilities for radioactive waste in Iitate village, Fukushima Prefecture. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/ Olivier Evrard, J. Patrick Laceby, and Atsushi Nakao The government of Japan ...

Hit by a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and an ensuing tsunami on March 11, 2011, the Fukushima nuclear plant suffered core meltdowns that released radiation, resulting in a level-7 nuclear accident, the ...

The World Health Organization’s (WHO) report (PDF) on the estimated health effects from the Fukushima nuclear accident is out, and the results are… reassuring. The WHO modeled the impacts of excess ...

Daniel Hirsch, a UC Santa Cruz lecturer on nuclear policy, will give a free, public lecture Tuesday, April 19 on the aftermath of the current nuclear plant disaster in Japan. The talk “The Japanese ...

TOKYO, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Shares of Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) (9501.T), opens new tab, owner of the defunct Fukushima nuclear plant, extended a rally on Tuesday that has seen the stock gain ...