Conditions inside Fukushima melted nuclear reactors still unclear 13 years after disaster struck

Japan on Monday marked 13 years since a massive earthquake and tsunami hit the country’s northern coasts. Nearly 20,000 ...

Radiation still hitting flora, fauna in forests in Fukushima

SENDAI—On a chilly night in early February, Masatoshi Suzuki hauled a black plastic bag containing four macaque carcasses into his lab at Tohoku University.
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'Nervous and rushed': Massive Fukushima plant cleanup work involves high radiation and stress

OKUMA, Japan — 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 wearing ...
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15 years after Fukushima meltdown, an innkeeper makes radiation surveys to revitalize her hometown

ODAKA, Japan — Fifteen years after the 2011 nuclear disaster, color-coded radiation maps hang on the wall of Futabaya Ryokan, the family-run inn Tomoko Kobayashi operates in her near-deserted hometown ...
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Fukushima radiation detected in U.S. coastal waters

According to Ken Buesseler, a senior scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, who also runs the crowd-funded, citizen science seawater sampling project, Our Radioactive Ocean, the levels of ...