Fukushima nuclear crisis
December 06, 2011
Up to 1 million residents of municipalities within 50 kilometers of the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant will be eligible for nuclear accident compensation, a...
December 06, 2011
At the age of 90 and with his frail 37-kilogram body weakened by cancer, photojournalist Kikujiro Fukushima remains determined to complete his final project.
December 05, 2011
Forty-five tons of radioactive water leaked from a processing facility at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant and some has likely entered the sea, Tokyo Electric Power Co....
December 05, 2011
Scientists have proposed dumping soil contaminated by radiation from the Fukushima nuclear disaster into the deep sea, an idea certain to meet opposition both at home and...
December 05, 2011
FUKUSHIMA--Work to decontaminate areas around the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant is, if nothing else, labor-intensive, painstaking and costly.
December 03, 2011
Tokyo Electric Power Co., in an interim report released Dec. 2, set out the line of defense it will attempt to hold against accusations of failures leading up to and during the ...
December 03, 2011
KOSAKA, Akita Prefecture--Rejected by residents, incinerated waste containing radioactive cesium is being returned to the Tokyo metropolitan area where it originated.
December 03, 2011
Food manufacturers operating in disaster-stricken Fukushima Prefecture have been forced to make costly efforts to reassure consumers about safety.
December 03, 2011
Johnan Shinkin Bank is doing its best to lessen the nation's reliance on nuclear energy.
December 03, 2011
Photojournalist Ryuichi Hirokawa's 17th annual calendar depicting the smiling children who live near the doomed Chernobyl nuclear plant is particularly poignant and meaningful...
December 02, 2011
TSUKUBA, Ibaraki Prefecture--Nearly 30,000 becquerels per square meter of cesium-137 fell on Tsukuba in March as a result of the accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power...
December 02, 2011
This is a compilation of the eight installments that appeared between Nov. 15 and 27.
December 02, 2011
A type of mask sold in drugstores for hay-fever sufferers may also prove effective in preventing internal exposure to radioactive cesium, a researcher at the University of...
December 01, 2011
Most of the fuel rods that melted in the pressure vessel of the No. 1 reactor of the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant dripped into the containment vessel and ate into it, ...
December 01, 2011
The education ministry on Nov. 30 set its first radiation safety standards for lunches provided at elementary and junior high schools, which will apply to 17 prefectures in...
December 01, 2011
FUKUSHIMA--Fukushima Governor Yuhei Sato on Nov. 30 said he will ask Tokyo Electric Power Co. and the central government to decommission all nuclear reactors in the prefecture.
December 01, 2011
The central government, responding to months of criticism from experts, has decided to measure levels of radioactive cesium in soil within the no-entry zone surrounding the...
November 30, 2011
Japan, China and South Korea’s nuclear energy authorities agreed on Nov. 29 to establish an early notification system to share information on accidents at nuclear power...
November 29, 2011
FUKUSHIMA--Nine kilograms of rice exceeding safety standards for radiation were sold to consumers, the Fukushima prefectural government said, as shipments of rice from two more ...
November 29, 2011
The head of the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant is stepping down for undisclosed health reasons and will be replaced in December.