Radiation exposure
June 25, 2011
About 300,000 children and pregnant women in Fukushima Prefecture will get dosimeters to monitor their exposure to radiation spewed from the hobbled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear...
June 21, 2011
The whereabouts of 69 people who had worked at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant remain unknown, including 30 who have not even been identified, Tokyo Electric...
June 18, 2011
Leading life insurers are expected to jointly loan hundreds of billions of yen to embattled Tokyo Electric Power Co. to help it tackle the nuclear accident and buy fuel for its ...
June 14, 2011
Six more employees of Tokyo Electric Power Co. working at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant were exposed to more radiation than allowed even under the relaxed limits put...
June 04, 2011
Two TEPCO workers at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant were exposed to levels of radiation exceeding standards established by the government.
May 05, 2011
As critical repairs continue at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, its operator is finding it difficult to find people willing to work at the plant.
April 15, 2011
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said a failure of communication may have been partly responsible for the exposure of workers to dangerous levels of radiation near the quake-damaged...
April 04, 2011
The problems continue to pile up at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, creating an unprecedented hazardous environment for the under-equipped front-line workers trying to bring ...
March 30, 2011
Government officials are scrambling to devise emergency measures--including covering damaged reactor buildings and using robots--to deal with radioactive materials that have...
March 29, 2011
The prolonged crisis at the quake-stricken nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture is increasingly wearing down front-line workers, as the exhausting and dangerous work...
March 26, 2011
Amid the heroic efforts of workers fighting the crisis at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, reports are emerging about the shoddy safety management of plant...
March 25, 2011
Two workers hospitalized for radiation exposure were wearing ordinary work shoes in liquid containing radioactivity 10,000 times the normal level of reactor-cooling water at...
March 24, 2011
Work resumed Thursday to cool reactor cores and storage pools containing spent fuel rods at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, but two workers were hospitalized because...
March 21, 2011
Shunichi Yamashita, a professor of radiation medicine at Nagasaki University who became adviser to Fukushima Prefecture on radiation health risk control, says people should be...
March 18, 2011
Relatives of Tokyo Electric Power Co. workers assigned to avert a nuclear catastrophe at the quake-ravaged Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant have called on the Japanese...
March 17, 2011
With the emergency surrounding the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, Japan now faces a question that has been taboo since the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986, namely, who ...
March 16, 2011
Public fears rose after high levels of radiation were detected near the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant and many residents were exposed to radioactive substances.