Chernobyl
March 29, 2013
Residents living near the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant have reacted strongly to a proposal to preserve parts of the site as a cautionary example for future...
March 11, 2013
During my visit to Fukushima last month, the city, on the surface, seems to have picked itself up and dusted itself off. The strength and stoic nature of the Japanese seemed...
March 06, 2013
Just months after Quince was deployed to inspect Japan's tsunami-devastated Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, the $6 million robot got trapped in its dark and winding pathways.
February 21, 2013
Seven young intellectuals are seeking support for their proposal to preserve the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant as a tourist site carrying a cautionary message for...
February 03, 2013
CHERNOBYL, Ukraine--Tours to the site of a nuclear disaster might not be on everyone’s list of must-places to visit.
December 01, 2012
The percentage of children with thyroid gland cysts is about the same in Tokyo and Fukushima, indicating that radiation from the nuclear accident has not affected the rate in...
November 20, 2012
The Environment Ministry has begun thyroid gland tests on children in faraway Nagasaki Prefecture as part of efforts to gauge the effects of radiation fallout from last year's...
July 25, 2012
Radioactive strontium-90 from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant has been detected for the first time in 10 prefectures outside Miyagi and Fukushima, the science...
May 09, 2012
Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), Japan's biggest utility and the owner of the devastated Fukushima nuclear power plant, will be taken over by the government after the...
May 02, 2012
If the pen is mightier than the sword, then senior members of the Japan writers' P.E.N. Club, who visited the shuttered Chernobyl nuclear power plant in mid-April, are now...
April 27, 2012
MOSCOW--Construction began April 26 to assemble a shelter to contain radioactive materials at the stricken Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine.
March 28, 2012
Wildlife in an animal sanctuary in Belarus, close to the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986, continues to show high levels of accumulated radioactive cesium,...
March 20, 2012
A Ukrainian official, citing the Chernobyl disaster as an example, said Japan must continue monitoring radiation levels around the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant because...
March 14, 2012
The spread of serious soil contamination from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant was eight times less than that from the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, according to the ...
December 17, 2011
Twenty-five years after the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the same misconceptions and rumors about the contaminated site and the evacuees linger on.
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...
November 24, 2011
A quarter-century after the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine, some 14 percent of the land area in neighboring Belarus remains contaminated with radioactive...
November 24, 2011
In southern Belarus along the border with the Ukraine stretches the Polessie State Radiation and Ecological Reserve, a foreboding name sure to keep the poachers and public out.
November 01, 2011
CHERNOBYL, Ukraine--Lyubov Oshurkevich felt the familiar pain when she watched news of the accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in March and thought about the...
October 29, 2011
The Fukushima nuclear disaster released twice as much of a radioactive substance into the atmosphere as Japanese authorities estimated, reaching 40 percent of the total from...