Environment
Japan will use robots to remove melted fuel in Fukushima
Robots equipped with pincers and using telescopic tubes to move will collect molten fuel debris weighing less than 3g.
Fukushima
Browse ScienceInfo articles and explainers related to Fukushima.
Topic archive
Articles about Fukushima
252 published items.
Discover science
The world's largest nuclear power plant is about to revive
Japan is about to restart production activities at the Kashiwazaki - Kariwa nuclear power plant after a long period of closure due to the impact of the Fukushima disaste…
Discover science
First footage of the reactor meltdown in Fukushima
Drone images reveal the scale of damage at the Fukushima nuclear power plant 13 years after the meltdown disaster.
Environment
Robot captures molten radioactive fuel in Fukushima
A remote-controlled robot photographed a molten nuclear fuel dump that fell to the bottom of the most damaged reactor at the Fukushima power plant.
Biology
Pine trees grow abnormally after the Fukushima nuclear disaster
Researchers discovered many strange features in plants around the Fukushima plant caused by radiation left over from the 2011 incident.
Discover science
Islands have much higher radioactivity than Chernobyl and Fukushima
Researchers recommend that people should not return to some of the Marshall Islands because the radioactivity is still higher than the safety threshold.
Discover science
Fukushima 7 years after nuclear disaster
March 11, 2018, is true to the 7th anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Like every year, Japan has stopped all activities at 14:46, that is, at the time of the…
Discover science
Detecting a molten nuclear fuel at Fukushima
Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) on July 23 said that a large number of hardened plaques and deposits were found for the first time at the bottom of the primary prot…
Discover science
Journey to the land of
Recently, special visitors including French Minister of Energy and Industry, Eric Besson and the delegation were led to visit deserted towns around Fukushima nuclear pla…
Discover science
Inside a Japanese nuclear power plant
The video was written by IDG reporter more than 3 years ago, during a visit to the No. 3 reactor of the Kashiwazaki Kariwa nuclear power plant.
Discover science
Terrors of molten nuclear fuel
Fuel rods in Japanese nuclear reactors damaged by earthquakes and tsunamis are in danger of being completely melted and causing unintended consequences.
Oceanography
Detecting a sudden 'water monster' in the Fukushima Sea
A Japanese fisherman was shocked when he caught a mutant wolves, twice the size of normal waters off the coast of this country, near the Fukushima nuclear power plant -…
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.
Oceanography
The Japanese Ministry of the Environment caught radioactive contaminated salmon
The content of radioactive substances in the body of salmon caught in a river not far from the place of the nuclear incident at Japan's No.1 Fukushima Nuclear Power Plan…
Oceanography
Japan recorded fish species
The Oceanographic Museum in Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, announced that it has discovered and recorded a small fish belonging to the Ministry of finfish (Coe…