Decontamination studies planned for forests near Fukushima plant

Nearly 15 years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, air radiation doses have dropped significantly in Fukushima Prefecture, ...
Altoona Mirror

Massive Fukushima plant cleanup exposes workers to high radiation and stress

The damaged Unit 1 reactor (back) and the exhaust stack shared by the Unit 1 and 2 reactors are seen at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, operated by Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings ...
Yahoo

'Nervous and rushed': Massive Fukushima plant cleanup work involves high radiation and stress

OKUMA, Japan (AP) — The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant's radiation levels have significantly dropped since the cataclysmic meltdown in Japan 14 years ago. Workers walk around in many areas ...
Japan Today

We should identify what measures should be implemented toward the lifting of the evacuation orders. Close monitoring of the mountain regions will provide us with clues about ...

Hironori Funaki, a scientist with the JAEA’s Fukushima Research and Engineering Institute, noting forests account for about 90 percent of the difficult-to-return zone nearly 15 years after the ...
CounterPunch

Fukushima’s Forever Quagmire of Radiation Hazards

The dumping of radioactive wastewater from the rubbished Fukushima nuclear reactor site in Japan was suspended for a day last March, after a 5.98-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of the site, ...
Hyperallergic

On the Fourth Anniversary of Fukushima, Artists Install an Exhibition Amid the Radiation

It's an art exhibition you can't visit. Not yet, at least, until officials declare the Fukushima exclusion zone habitable again, which for certain areas could take decades. The exhibition, slated to ...
The Atlantic

Fukushima Radiation Is Only a 'Small' Cancer Risk, and That's the Scary Part

On the same day that Japan's prime minister declared the country would re-start nuclear reactors shut down in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima power-plant disaster, the World Health Organization ...
Steve Ronin on MSN

Abandoned radiation city Fukushima, Japan 8 years later

I return to Fukushima to observe its progress. This video also touches upon abandoned cities similar to Fukushima, including ...
Time

Preliminary Reports Show Little Radiation Exposure in Fukushima

Time & Life Pictures/Getty ImagesUnder enemy fire, American Marines wade ashore at Cape Batangan, a rugged promontory some 20 miles down the coast from Chulai, reported to be a Vietcong stronghold, ...
The Atlantic

Fukushima Radiation Found in Pacific Ocean Tuna

Researchers say that giant bluefin tuna captured off the coast of the U.S. last fall contained trace amounts of cesium-134, a radioactive element released into the ocean by the quake-damaged Fukushima ...
The Columbian

‘Nervous and rushed’: Massive Fukushima plant cleanup exposes workers to high radiation and stress

Employees of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO) take AP journalists to the area under the Unit 5 reactor pressure vessel, which survived the earthquake-triggered tsunami in 2011, at the ...