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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.
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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.
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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…
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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,…
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Explosion lethal in the French nuclear power plant
At least one person died and four were injured in a nuclear power plant explosion in southern France today.
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New materials help prevent pollution
Chemical experts from the University of California, Santa Cruz have developed a new material called SLUG-26, which is used to treat contaminated water through ion exchan…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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.
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Alarms from nuclear power plants in the US: Contaminated water leaks into the environment
The US Congress alarmed that three-quarters of the 65 nuclear power plants in the United States are experiencing radioactive water leaking to the outside environment for…
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Japan published a map of radioactive accumulation
Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) on June 21 published a map of the distribution of radioactive concentrations accumulated in…
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Leaked more than a dozen tons of radioactive water in Japan
Tons of radioactive water have been detected leaking into the groundwater system below the Fukushima nuclear power plant.