radiation
June 13, 2013
The Japanese Red Cross Society has established a guideline for medical workers that sets an accumulated radiation dose limit of 1 millisievert for relief activities, although...
June 06, 2013
Health experts are at odds on whether radiation from the Fukushima nuclear accident led to an unexpectedly high occurrence rate of thyroid gland cancer among children in...
June 06, 2013
Radiation levels have dropped by 40 percent on average in each of the four types of evacuation zones around the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, the government's...
May 30, 2013
TOKAI, Ibaraki Prefecture--The leak of radioactive materials at the Hadron Experimental Facility on May 23 does not pose any environmental health risks, according to its...
May 25, 2013
Scientists at a nuclear physics laboratory in Tokai, Ibaraki Prefecture, ignored the ringing of an alarm that radioactive substances were leaking and continued with the...
May 21, 2013
A fishing vessel from Fukushima Prefecture caught fish in waters south of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant on May 20 to test them for levels of radiation...
May 10, 2013
Chaos reigned during the early phase of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, and people who fled the area have no idea how much radiation they were exposed to before the evacuation. ...
April 25, 2013
FUKUSHIMA--Officials are still struggling to dispose of some 17,000 tons of contaminated rice produced in Fukushima Prefecture after the nuclear disaster there two years ago.
April 24, 2013
Teijin Ltd. announced on April 24 that it has developed aramid fiber fabric that protects users against X-ray and gamma-ray radiation.
April 20, 2013
Fourteen workers treated radioactive water leaking at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant without wearing personal dosimeters as required, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said...
April 10, 2013
Editor's note: This is the 17th 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 the ...
April 08, 2013
Editor's note: This is the 16th 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 the ...
April 03, 2013
Editor's note: This is the 14th 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 the ...
March 28, 2013
Japanese government regulators said on March 27 that for the first time they will conduct their own investigation into the country's nuclear crisis to address key unanswered...
March 15, 2013
Editor's note: This is the sixth 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 15, 2013
SHIRAKAWA, Fukushima Prefecture--A nonprofit organization is building a museum about Japan’s worst nuclear accident at a site located around 80 kilometers from the crippled...
March 12, 2013
On the symbolic second anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake, 1,650 residents and evacuees filed lawsuits on March 11 against the central government and Tokyo Electric ...
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 09, 2013
More than 40 percent of children from Fukushima Prefecture tested for thyroid abnormalities, such as small cysts or lumps, but that rate is not troubling because it roughly...
March 08, 2013
As the crisis started to unfold at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, tech-savvy individuals on both sides of the Pacific banded together to help fill the void of information...