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Japan tested 300,000 children for suspected radioactivity
Japanese health officials are now beginning to examine more than 300,000 children living near the Fukushima nuclear plant, which was badly damaged in the March earthquak…
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Unusually high radiation detection in the Japanese capital
Japanese media reported that the country's authorities have detected unusually high levels of radiation at one of the central districts in Japan's Tokyo capital. This ar…
Environment
Radioactivity in Tokyo does not come from Fukushima
Japanese officials say unusually high radioactivity was discovered in Tokyo unrelated to the Fukushima I. nuclear power plant.
Environment
Japan will bury contaminated soil in some forests
Half a year after a consecutive nuclear power plant disaster, Japan has found a way to deal with the huge amount of radioactive soil in Fukushima.
Environment
Japan discovered the first case of highly contaminated rice
The Ministry of Agriculture of Japan has just reported that the first case of contaminated rice was higher than that, since then it had to perform thorough analyzes befo…
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.
Environment
Strong earthquake shook Japan
On the morning of September 17, a magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck off the east side of Honshu, not far from the 9-magnitude quake and devastating tsunami on March 11.
Environment
Japanese power plant is safe in super typhoon
The powerful Roke storm yesterday swept across the Fukushima I power plant shortly after a seismic hit, but the nuclear facility was not seriously damaged.
Environment
The reactors at Fukushima No.1 are basically stable
According to Reuters, Yukiya Amano, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) announced on September 12 that the reactors at the current Fukushim…
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Japan established a restricted area around the Fukushima I factory
The area around Japan's Fukushima I nuclear power plant may become a forbidden area for several decades because the concentration of radiation there has reached a very d…
Environment
Increasing the role of IAEA in ensuring nuclear safety
On August 23, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Yukiya Amano affirmed that the IAEA's role in ensuring global nuclear safety must be stre…
Environment
Radiation from Japanese factories is 168 times the atomic bomb
A newspaper in Japan said that radioactive cesium-137 leaked from Fukushima I nuclear power plant equivalent to more than 168 atomic bombs falling on Hiroshima city duri…
Environment
Radiation from the Fukushima 1 plant has spread to the United States
On August 16, Kyodo news agency said US scientists have discovered a small amount of radioactive sulfur dispersed from Japan's No. 1 Fukushima nuclear power plant on the…
Environment
Earthquake triggers tsunami warning in Japan
A 6.8-magnitude earthquake has just happened on the northeast coast of Japan, right in the double disaster area in March, causing a tsunami warning to be made.