A Greenpeace investigation has discovered contamination in crops on the outskirts of MinamisÅma, Fukushima, in the wake of the nuclear crisis.
Workers at Japan’s stricken nuclear plant on Thursday pumped nitrogen into a crippled reactor in a bid to prevent a possible explosion.
Workers at Japan’s crippled atomic power plant on Wednesday plugged a hole spewing highly radioactive water into the ocean.
Fishermen who lost their homes and boats in Japan’s tsunami now fear radioactive water could cost them their livelihoods.
Analysts suggest power blackouts will ultimately cause the biggest economic damage to Japan, a vital player in the global manufacturing supply chain.
Japan’s government on Monday told the operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant to move quickly to stop radiation seeping into the ocean.
Officials grappling to end the world’s worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl tried to seal a crack that has been leaking radiation into the sea.
Japan’s prime minister made his first visit to the country’s tsunami-devastated region on Saturday and entered a nuclear exclusion zone.
Japan’s nuclear and humanitarian crisis stretched to three weeks on Friday with radiation still leaking from a crippled nuclear power plant.
Japan said on Thursday its stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant will have to be scrapped.
Pressure is on Japan to expand the evacuation zone around a stricken nuclear power plant after high levels of radiation were found outside the zone.
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Japan was on Wednesday weighing a series of creative solutions to its unfolding nuclear disaster.
Officials and Tokyo Electric Power have described the combination of a powerful quake and tsunami as <i>soteigai</i>, or beyond expectations.
Small amounts of radiation from Japan’s leaking nuclear power plant have spread across Asia, authorities said on Tuesday.
Plutonium in soil at the Fukushima nuclear complex heightened alarm on Tuesday over the battle to contain the world’s worst atomic crisis in 25 years.
The United Nations atomic energy chief called a Vienna summit to tackle mounting concerns about nuclear safety.
Highly contaminated water has escaped from a reactor building at Japan’s stricken nuclear plant and may leak into the ocean, the operator says.
The high level of radiation in water flooding the basement at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi plant is probably due to a partial melting of fuel rods.
Workers were withdrawn from a building at Japan’s earthquake-wrecked nuclear plant on Sunday after potentially lethal levels of radiation were found.
Japanese authorities evacuated workers on Sunday from a reactor building they were working in after high doses of radiation were detected.
Radiation levels have soared in seawater near Japan’s crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, officials said on Saturday.
Japanese engineers were frantically attempting on Saturday to pump out puddles of radioactive water at the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
The operator of a Japanese nuclear plant on Friday reported possible damage to a reactor vessel, casting doubts over control of a radiation leak.
The operation to cool the reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has suffered a setback.
Engineers had to pull out of some parts of Japan’s crippled nuclear plant on Thursday when three workers were exposed to high contamination.
Australia, Canada and Singapore joined a list of countries shunning Japanese food imports as radioactive steam wafted anew from a nuclear plant.
Tokyo warned on Wednesday that radioactive iodine over twice the safe level for infants had been detected in its tap water.
Japan estimated the cost of the damage from its devastating earthquake and tsunami could top $300-billion.
The United States became the first nation to block produce from ally Japan’s radiation zone, saying it will halt milk, vegetable and fruit imports.
When the tsunami smacked into Fukushima Daiichi, the nuclear power plant was stacked high with more uranium than it was originally designed to hold.
Fuel shortages, icy rain and power failures are hampering Japan’s worst humanitarian crisis since World War II, but workers are reporting progress.