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Radioactive iodine is found in kelp off the west coast of the United States, more than a year after the Japanese earthquake / tsunami, causing the worst nuclear crisis i…
Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) has reported the radioactivity measured in the 2nd reactor at Fukushima 1 power station to 73 svert / hour, which is extremely dange…
Radioactivity from the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima plant was discovered about 650 km away from the Japanese coast, in the Pacific Ocean, with a radiation index 1,0…
Fukushima prefectural authorities in northeastern Japan said on January 19 that high levels of radiation were found around a protective dike in the province of Motomiya.
Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) said it has detected about 10 liters of water containing Strontium radioactivity that has been leaked from the water treatment facil…
The Japanese government banned the export of rice produced in Fukushima, after the test results showed that the rice in this area contained radioactive cesium exceeding…
The Japanese authorities have just discovered at a primary school in Tokyo that the amount of radiation is higher than the amount of radiation in areas near the Fukushim…
Radioactivity has leaked at the Dounreay nuclear power complex complex in Caithness, Scotland.
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…
Japanese officials say unusually high radioactivity was discovered in Tokyo unrelated to the Fukushima I. nuclear power plant.
Japan 's Ministry of Agriculture - Forestry - Fisheries has published research results, tested radioactive decontamination measures in the soil in Fukushima Prefecture,…
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…
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…
The US Geological Survey (USGS) announced that there was another strong seismic shaking in northeastern Japan - which had suffered heavy losses due to the double earthqu…
Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) on June 12 said that part of the high-concentration radioactive water treatment system is blocked so that the water doesn't flow. Th…