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Oceanography
Fish near the Fukushima power plant are contaminated 2,500 times higher
Fish caught near Fukushima nuclear power plant (Japan) is 2,500 times higher than the safe level.
Animal world
Monkeys near the Fukushima plant may be contaminated
Monkeys that live in the wild environment of Japan's Fukushima area show abnormalities in the blood, believed to be related to radiation after the 2011 nuclear accident.
Animal world
Detection of ultra-high-level contaminated fish near Fukushima 1
Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) on March 15 said the company measured a record radioactive level of 740,000 becquerels (bq) / kg of radioactive cesium in a fish cau…
Environment
Radioactivity in Fukushima is so high that the probe camera's camera is burned
A robot dispatched to the Fukushima leak reactor to investigate and clean up had to abruptly cancel its mission, after the extremely high radiation level here burned its…
Environment
Freezing lands around Fukushima factory
On March 30, Japan 's Nuclear Administration (NRA) approved a plan to freeze the land around damaged reactors at Fukushima.
Environment
Japan built underground ice walls to isolate radiation
The Japanese nuclear agency has just approved a plan to freeze ground under the Fukushima nuclear plant, in an attempt to slow the accumulation of radioactive water.
Environment
100 tons of radioactive water leaked at Fukushima
According to Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) on February 20, about 100 tons of high-level radioactive water was leaked through one of the tanks at the Fukushima nuc…
Environment
Decontamination work around the Fukushima Plant was three years late
In January 2012, Japan's Ministry of Environment officials said the decontamination work would be completed before March 2014, except for areas with very high levels of…
Environment
Very high radiation index at Fukushima
According to TEPCO, the highest radiation index has just been detected up to 1,800 millisievert (mSv) an hour in one of the containers, a dose that can be fatal if expos…
Environment
Radiation detection is 10 times higher in Japan
Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) announced on July 7 that it has detected triti radioactive toxins with high concentrations in groundwater at Fukushima nuclear power…
Environment
Again leaking radioactive water at the Fukushima plant
Engineers have stabilized the Fukushima nuclear power plant later
Environment
First move nuclear fuel in Fukushima
Japanese media on July 18 reported that workers working at the Daiichi incident nuclear plant in Fukushima Prefecture for the first time have moved nuclear fuel here sin…
Environment
Officially closed Fukushima nuclear power plant
According to AFP, Prime Minister Noda will hold a press conference at 18:00 (local time) with the press and media of this country, to announce the closure of the Fukushi…
Environment
Japan will stop licensing nuclear power projects
Japanese environmental director Akira Kondo said that because of the earthquake, the Japanese government is studying the whole of its new nuclear energy policy.