Something strange is living—and thriving—below Fukushima’s dead reactors

Ionizing radiation apparently didn’t prevent some types of bacteria from breeding in the water, but astonishingly, they are ...
Time

Meltdown: Despite the Fear, the Health Risks from the Fukushima Accident Are Minimal

The World Health Organization’s (WHO) report (PDF) on the estimated health effects from the Fukushima nuclear accident is out, and the results are… reassuring. The WHO modeled the impacts of excess ...
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Microbes in Fukushima found surprisingly unscathed by radiation

In Earth's highly radioactive hotspots, life can get pretty strange – from fungus that seems to thrive to an explosion of vertebrate diversity in the absence of human interference. A different story ...

The Fukushima towns frozen in time: nature has thrived since the nuclear disaster but what happens if humans return?

Fifteen years after a tsunami caused the Fukushima nuclear accident, only bears, raccoons and boar are seen on the streets. But the authorities and some locals want people to move back ...
Yahoo

13 years after Fukushima nuclear disaster, Japan remembers the dead and vows to keep rebuilding

TOKYO (AP) — Japan marked the 13th anniversary of the massive earthquake and tsunami that triggered a nuclear meltdown and left large parts of Fukushima prefecture uninhabitable on Monday with a ...
Reuters

Radiation from Fukushima disaster newly detected off Canada's coast

PORTLAND, Ore. (Reuters) - Radiation from Japan's 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster has for the first time been detected along a North American shoreline, though at levels too low to pose a significant ...
Time

Report: Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Was Man-Made

An independent parliamentary committee issued a report on Thursday on last year’s crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, concluding that the disaster was “man-made” and the result of ...
world-nuclear-news

Data on Fukushima radiation monitoring

A mass of data on radioactive emissions from the Fukushima nuclear accident has been made available by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). A mass of data on radioactive emissions from the ...
Reuters

The children of Japan's Fukushima battle an invisible enemy

KORIYAMA, Japan (Reuters) - Some of the smallest children in Koriyama, a short drive from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, barely know what it's like to play outside - fear of radiation has kept ...
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 ...
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Researchers at Fukushima Medical University Target Epidemiology (External Radiation Dose, Obesity, and Risk of Childhood Thyroid Cancer After the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear ...

2019 OCT 31 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News-- Fresh data on Health and Disease - Epidemiology are presented in a new report. According to news reporting ...
Los Angeles Times

Japan wants to cut carbon. But one of the world’s worst nuclear accidents is making it harder

NAMIE, Japan — A quarter-mile inland from the eastern Japanese coastline, a sprawling complex of solar panels, robotic lawnmowers and the world’s largest hydrogen power plant stands as a monument to ...