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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 26, 2013
Officials from local municipalities and the Ibaraki prefectural government inspected a nuclear physics laboratory in Ibaraki Prefecture on May 25 where thirty scientists are...
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 10, 2013
Tokyo Electric Power Co. will demolish and replace the makeshift canopy covering a badly damaged reactor building at its Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in order to remove...
March 09, 2013
Work to clear radioactive fallout in Fukushima Prefecture is so far behind schedule that government deadlines could be missed and evacuees may have to wait longer to return...
March 05, 2013
Sixty percent of Fukushima Prefecture residents said it will take more than 20 years to recoup the lifestyles they lost when the prefecture was hit by the triple disaster of...
January 19, 2013
A rockfish caught in the port of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant was found to have radioactive cesium 2,540 times the government's safety standard for foodstuffs, Tokyo ...
December 18, 2012
Workers are nowhere close to determining the state of melted fuel at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, a year after the government declared the damaged reactors were in a...
December 14, 2012
The Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) on Dec. 13 released corrections to all of its radiation forecast maps, which show the likely spread of radioactive substances from a...
December 05, 2012
Japanese researchers said they have developed a fabric that can efficiently absorb radioactive cesium, a potential weapon in the battle to clean up areas contaminated by the...
December 04, 2012
Tokyo Electric Power Co. may string nets across its port at the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant to prevent fish contaminated with radiation from reaching the sea.
November 07, 2012
Japan's new nuclear industry watchdog acknowledged additional errors in its maps for the expected spread of radioactive substances from a serious nuclear accident, further...
October 30, 2012
After only a month on the job, the Nuclear Regulation Authority has been forced to apologize after a utility spotted errors in its forecast maps showing the likely spread of...
October 04, 2012
Researchers trying to assess the impact of radiation on ecosystems due to the Fukushima nuclear disaster have come up with some surprising results: But they're not entirely...
September 21, 2012
When the central government decided on a state-owned forest in Yaita, Tochigi Prefecture, as a dump site for radioactive-contaminated waste, it informed Yaita city officials...
September 13, 2012
The science ministry, citing 60 sites around Japan, said it found no radioactive strontium contamination caused by the Fukushima nuclear crisis last year.
September 11, 2012
A significant quantity of radioactive cesium, likely from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, has turned up in subsea mud about 200 kilometers away, near the...
August 29, 2012
With its rich fishing grounds, the far northern and mostly rural prefecture of Aomori is reeling from a ban on shipments of Pacific cod after two instances of fish were found...
August 22, 2012
Plutonium contamination from the Fukushima nuclear disaster remains localized and has not spread since the last survey on the problem in September 2011, the science ministry...
July 27, 2012
The government should revise its formula to calculate radiation doses of atomic bomb survivors because the current method does not properly incorporate internal radiation...