radiation
June 14, 2012
Koichi Oyama noticed something strange when he was measuring radiation levels in Minami-Soma, Fukushima Prefecture. In many places where the readings jumped, the municipal...
June 13, 2012
An individual living near the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant was exposed to the highest level of external radiation doses reported so far among residents, according to the...
June 11, 2012
Thirty-two percent of residents from the evacuation zone around the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant will be unable to return home in 2017 if decontamination is not carried out,...
June 06, 2012
A Japanese research agency has dropped a controversial public relations campaign aimed at educating women about nuclear safety that compared radiation to the screaming voice of ...
June 05, 2012
In response to queries from concerned customers, some beverage producers have launched systems that provide radiation content information on their products.
June 04, 2012
A new study shows that children who were born within 10 years of both parents surviving the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima have a higher rate of developing leukemia than...
June 01, 2012
MINAMI-SOMA, Fukushima Prefecture—Umeo Sayama’s two-story home and barn stand isolated from civilization in the mountainous outskirts of this city. The snow that blanketed...
May 31, 2012
Shiro Morita has a new job, but he freely admits we’d all be much better off if it never had to exist in the first place.
May 30, 2012
Tapping into safety concerns following last year's accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, SoftBank Mobile Corp. on May 29 announced the summer release of a new...
May 29, 2012
WASHINGTON -- Low levels of nuclear radiation from the tsunami-damaged Fukushima power plant have turned up in bluefin tuna off the California coast, suggesting that these fish ...
May 24, 2012
The government has angrily taken issue with a May 23 report by the World Health Organization on overall levels of radiation exposure in Japan, accusing it of overestimating the ...
May 24, 2012
FUKUSHIMA--With an exodus triggered by nuclear disaster, any home design that offers protection against radiation must surely be welcome in this part of northern Japan.
May 23, 2012
Last year's accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant exposed local residents to whole-body radiation doses of up to 50 millisieverts, well below the safety threshold,...
May 21, 2012
Once used as an out-of-the-way place to store documents, a small room on the fifth floor of the city office in Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, is now being used to give local...
May 16, 2012
Fears have yet to settle over the radioactive substances scattered by the accident that started in March last year at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.
May 16, 2012
Following internal confusion, the science and technology ministry retracted a plan to end yearlong measurements of accumulated radiation doses at nine locations in Fukushima...
May 04, 2012
An Osaka-based corrugated cardboard manufacturer has developed what it says are resin sheets that can be used as radiation shields.
April 26, 2012
The farm ministry has requested the food and retail industries to use the national radiation safety standards for food even when they conduct their own voluntary radiation...
April 23, 2012
Bereft of decontamination work, residents will be unable to return home for at least five years in seven municipalities around the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant,...
April 21, 2012
I get antsy whenever I hear young women in Fukushima Prefecture bemoaning their dismal marriage prospects following the nuclear accident there.