Three cities in Chiba Prefecture that were heavily contaminated with radioactive materials as a result of the March 2011 nuclear meltdowns at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima No.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. has given up its goal of completing radioactive water cleanup at its stricken Fukushima No.

The Fukushima nuclear accident will cost an estimated ¥11.08 trillion, almost double the government projection made at the end of 2011, according to a recent study by Japanese college professors.

Michigan will take a look at its radioactive waste disposal standards after criticism grew over an out-of-state company dumping fracking byproducts in a landfill near Detroit.

The education and science ministry plans to file an ¥8.1 billion budget request for research related to dismantlement of reactors at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 power plant.

The Environment Ministry will request a fiscal 2015 budget allocation of around ¥300 billion for decontamination of areas tainted by radioactive fallout from Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s crippled Fuk

Tokyo Electric Power Co. is planning to pump contaminated groundwater from drainage wells at the Fukushima No.

The government notified a town in Tochigi Prefecture on Wednesday that it has been picked as a candidate site for the final disposal of some of the radiation-tainted waste resulting from the 2011 F

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Monkeys near the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant have lower blood cell counts than cousins living further away, possibly because of radiation exposure, a study says.

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