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Again leaking radioactive water at the Fukushima plant
Engineers have stabilized the Fukushima nuclear power plant later
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Environment
Japan: Radioactivity in fish is still high
Results from a recent study show that many fish species in Japan still contain high levels of Cesium (Cs) radiation, even though it has been more than 1.5 years since th…
Environment
The amount of radiation in the Pacific Ocean is 6 times higher
According to a survey by the Japan Marine Survey, published on March 12, the incident at the Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant in March 2011 caused the content of radioact…
Environment
Detection of radiation 650km from the Japanese coast
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…
Environment
Radioactive substances from Japan travel around the world
Japanese scientists say most of the radioactive material released from the Fukushima nuclear power plant has fallen into the sea and circulated around the planet.
Environment
Japan banned rice exports from Fukushima
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…
Environment
The Fukushima disaster caused serious ocean contamination
The Fukushima I plant incident was devastated by tsunamis / earthquakes in March, pouring a lot of cesium 137 into the sea and this is the biggest oceanic nuclear radiat…
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
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
Japan temporarily stopped cleaning contaminated water
On June 18, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) forced a halt to the contaminated water cleanup campaign at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant just five hours af…
Environment
Japan uses sunflower plants to decontaminate soil
Japan is recruiting volunteers to plant sunflowers in Fukushima Prefecture and turn this flower into a symbol of the revival after the nuclear incident.
Environment
Radiation is still in agricultural products after 25 years
Radioactive dust from the explosion of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986 still exists in food in northern Ukraine, the Green Peace Organization confirmed yesterd…
Science Events
Solution to prevent nuclear disaster
The ability to prevent the spread of wide-area radioactivity at Japan's nuclear power plant depends very much on the luck and the timeliness of the intervention.
Science Events
Nuclear radiation cannot spread to Vietnam
In some incidents of a nuclear power plant, radioactive substances such as iodine (iodine 131 and iodine 129) and cesium (Cesium 137), if left unchecked in the furnace o…
Medicine - Health
Fukushima seafood 're-export' market after nuclear disaster
For the first time after more than a year of a nuclear leak at Fukushima Daichi (Japan), a number of seafood caught at the coast near the factory has been on the market…