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[186] [187] Further, the radiation exposure resulting from the incident for most people living in Fukushima is so small compared to background radiation that it may be impossible to find statistically significant evidence of increases in cancer. [25] The highest detection of radiation outside of Fukushima peaked at 40 mSv.
The Fukushima disaster cleanup is an ongoing attempt to limit radioactive contamination from the three nuclear reactors involved in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster that followed the earthquake and tsunami on 11 March 2011. The affected reactors were adjacent to one another and accident management was made much more difficult because of ...
The treated discharge from Japan's ruined Fukushima nuclear plant is safe, IAEA chief says on visit ... “We never say ‘this is done’ or ‘this is okay’ because there is a long way to go ...
1,100 people called for the scrapping of the Hamaoka reactors of Chubu Electric Power Co. Tsuruga, Fukui. 1,200 people marched in the streets of the city of Tsuruga, the home of the Monju fast-breeder reactor prototype and the nuclear reactors of Kansai Electric Power Co. The crowd objected the restart of the reactors of the Oi-nuclear power plant.
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant was hit by a wall of water after a 9.0-magnitude earthquake rocked the region in March 2011. (Hidenori Nagai / The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP file)
Japan began pumping more than a million metric tons of treated radioactive water from the destroyed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on Thursday, a process that will take decades to complete.
The Japanese government bans shipments of rice from a farm near the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant. 630 becquerels of caesium per kilogram was found in the rice, over the 500 becquerels of caesium per kilogram allowed for human consumption. (From hundreds of spots tested around Fukushima, none had previously exceeded the limit.) [263]
The 9.0 magnitude quake and tsunami that ravaged parts of Japan’s northeastern coast on March 11, 2011 killed about 20,000 people and drove thousands from their homes in the prefectures of ...