Exceedingly high radiation levels found inside crippled reactor buildings at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant were labeled by nuclear regulators as an “extremely serious” challenge to the ...

Armed with measuring devices, groups of citizens are embracing science to monitor radioactive fallout — and regain control of ...

74% drop in radiation levels within 80km of Fukushima Daiichi plant The Nuclear Regulation Authority, or NRA, uses helicopters to gauge per-hour radiation levels one meter from the ground in areas ...

Following the 2011 accident at TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), the IAEA and the Fukushima Prefecture agreed to cooperate on radiation monitoring and remediation. The Practical ...

OKUMA, Fukushima Prefecture--A decade ago, a massive tsunami crashed into the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear ... massive radiation and causing long-term contamination in the area. The plant’s operator ...

Uranium has been detected in nuclear fuel debris extracted from a Fukushima plant. The radioactive element ... and weighs 0.693 grams. Its radiation level measured 1-2 centimeters away stood ...

After the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster, radiation measurement ... Considering that an average gamma radiation event produces only around 10 nanoamps for about 50 microseconds, a lot ...

Soon after a tsunami damaged three reactors at the Fukushima ... radiation remains high. One month after the nuclear disaster, the government set up a 20-kilometer no-entry zone around the plant.

The country is running out of room to store contaminated water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.

The IAEA Action Plan on Nuclear Safety, endorsed by IAEA Member States in September 2011, defined a programme of work to strengthen the global nuclear safety framework in response to the March 2011 ...

China’s own tests of seawater samples collected from near the Fukushima nuclear plant have found no negative impact on marine species, increasing the chances that Beijing would eventually lift ...