Radiation exposure
May 23, 2013
Keeping the meltdown-stricken Fukushima nuclear plant in northeastern Japan in stable condition requires a cast of thousands. Increasingly the plant's operator is struggling to ...
March 20, 2013
Editor's note: This is the eighth part of a new series that has run in the past under the title of The Prometheus Trap. This series deals with the secret missions assigned to...
March 18, 2013
Editor's note: This is the seventh part of a new series that has run in the past under the title of The Prometheus Trap. This series deals with the secret missions assigned to...
March 02, 2013
Dozens of workers at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant were exposed to radiation levels higher than those registered in their personal records, according to a...
December 01, 2012
Dozens of workers received potentially cancerous doses of radiation to their thyroid glands during recovery work at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, according to data...
November 25, 2012
Cases of cancer caused by radiation from the Fukushima nuclear accident will not increase significantly, although the risk facing infants near the plant has risen, a draft...
November 22, 2012
Of the many thousands of workers who have risked radiation exposure at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, only a paltry 3.7 percent are eligible for free cancer...
September 12, 2012
The first round of thyroid tests for about 80,000 children in Fukushima Prefecture found no direct effects from last year's accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.
August 14, 2012
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Aug. 13 it will carry out spot checks at the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant to ensure that workers are carrying dosimeters.
August 14, 2012
It sounds good on paper. But confirming whether nuclear power plant workers are carrying dosimeters is harder than it might seem.
August 03, 2012
The town of Namie, in the no-entry zone surrounding the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, is set to issue its own radiation dose book for evacuees this month in the hope it...
July 09, 2012
Concerned about an increase in radiation exposure at hospitals, a group of researchers plans to set up a system to track patients’ cumulative radiation doses and protect...
July 06, 2012
Workers who remained in the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant even after it was hit by the huge earthquake and tsunami to deal with the fast-moving crisis were praised as heroes...
March 08, 2012
When a 9-year-old boy from Fukushima Prefecture wrote a letter to Prime Minister Naoto Kan in August, he asked a question that was on the minds of many other children his age.
February 20, 2012
FUKUSHIMA--Two women were likely exposed to radiation exceeding the government’s annual ceiling in the four months after the accident started at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear...
December 06, 2011
Allow me to quote a verse from the poem "Hoshi" (Star) by Hiroshi Yoshino: "A salaryman/ Who has no choice but to be competent/ Hides his heart/ His useless heart/ At work/...
October 26, 2011
As the quake-stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant was spewing radiation, the Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan urged the central government to issue...
October 10, 2011
Parents of children who underwent thyroid gland examinations for radiation on Oct. 9 had harsh words for the central government and Tokyo Electric Power Co.
August 06, 2011
The following is the English version of the Peace Declaration delivered by Kazumi Matsui at the Peace Memorial Ceremony on August 6, 2011
July 22, 2011
Lifetime exposure to more than 100 millisieverts of radiation presents a significant risk of cancer, according to a preliminary finding of the Food Safety Commission reached at ...