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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…
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Japanese nuclear power plant needs 30 years to
An expert panel of the Japan Atomic Energy Commission concluded that the Fukushima nuclear power plant could only stop completely after at least three decades.
Environment
Tokyo has a higher radiation exposure point in Fukushima
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…
Environment
Radiation leaks at nuclear power plants
Radioactivity has leaked at the Dounreay nuclear power complex complex in Caithness, Scotland.
Environment
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…
Environment
Solar energy changes create cold winters in the North
Severe winters in the United States and Northern Europe can be a result of changes in ultraviolet radiation from the sun.
Environment
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
Sunflower does not reduce radioactivity in soil
Japan 's Ministry of Agriculture - Forestry - Fisheries has published research results, tested radioactive decontamination measures in the soil in Fukushima Prefecture,…
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
Half of Fukushima children are radioactive
Nearly a quarter of the medical samples of children living in areas of radioactive contamination from the Fukushima nuclear power plant (Japan) give positive results for…
Environment
Japan has just developed a new radioactive material
New materials in the form of silicon dioxide compounds (SiO2) can absorb radioactive iodine and strontium by changing the compound type.
Environment
Record high radiation at Japanese nuclear power plant
Toyko Electric Company (TEPCO) said yesterday it recorded a record high radiation level at the Fukushima I. nuclear power plant.
Environment
Tsunami in Japan after the magnitude 7.1 earthquake
The 7.1-magnitude earthquake in Northeast Japan at 9h57 am July 10 caused tsunamis with a height of 10cm in the three provinces of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima.