Tepco, the state-owned operator of the badly damaged Fukushima nuclear plant, has conducted an important test in which…
A Japanese nuclear power station in Hokkaido is operating on emergency power after the region was hit by a…
On August 3, 2016, seven kilometers above Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, a research plane captured something mysterious: an…
A new probe designed specifically to take a deep view of a damaged nuclear reactor at the Fukushima plant was unveiled…
Earlier this year, remotely piloted robots transmitted what officials believe was a direct view of melted radioactive…
A new and unexpected source of radioactive material left over from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster has been found…
In a classic case of adding insult to injury, workers at the beleaguered Fukushima nuclear power plant have uncovered…
One of the several brave robots to make one-way trips into Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant’s severely damaged…
In just a few weeks, the residents of a Fukushima city will finally be allowed to return to their homes. Trouble is,…
A remotely-controlled robot sent to inspect and clean a damaged reactor at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant had to be…
Hundreds of millions of gallons of radioactive water remain sitting around the site of the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi…
When a magnitude 6.9 earthquake rocked the Fukushima prefecture of Japan on Tuesday, fear swept the island nation that…
Pokémon Go is everywhere, and for some, that’s a problem.
Since March 2011, a 30-mile radius around the ruined Fukushima Daiichi reactor has been a designated exclusion zone,…
After a nuclear disaster, wildlife tends to flourish in contaminated areas, unchecked by humans that might otherwise…
It’s been five years since Japan’s Tohoku earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown in Fukushima—and some consumers are…
Japan has closed one of its two remaining operational nuclear plants. The shutdown comes just days before the fifth…
Five years ago, a 9.0 undersea earthquake shook Japan. It was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in the…
It’s already been almost five years since the nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, and the…
In August, Japan reopened its first nuclear reactors after an almost two-year hiatus that followed the 2011 earthquake…
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