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Around 880 tonnes of hazardous material remain at the Fukushima site, 13 years after a catastrophic tsunami caused by a 9.0-magnitude earthquake triggered one of history's worst nuclear accidents.

This Fukushima resident says the green sheets scattered ... And in all of these places, authorities have been unable to find final disposal sites and are keeping contaminated soil on-site.

The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) is currently responsible for the clean-up and decommissioning process at the Fukushima Daiichi site and in the surrounding exclusion zone. Dr Satoshi ...

The Fukushima Daiichi plant suffered a series of meltdowns following an earthquake and tsunami A suspected unexploded bomb has been found at the site of the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan.

The operator of Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant said Thursday it will start the second round of a tricky operation to collect samples of radioactive debris from the site this spring ...

Fukushima Initiative Projects (FIPs) supplement the FCPs and are supported by the IAEA. Activities include monitoring the movement of radionuclides in river waters, in wild animals, in seepage from ...

Gulati, Ranjay, Charles Casto, and Charlotte Krontiris. "How the Other Fukushima Plant Survived." Harvard Business Review 92, nos. 7/8 (July–August 2014): 111–115.

Tepco said it was setting up its own group of experts to oversee toxic water and storage tanks at the Fukushima site. “For measures that require sophisticated technology, we will appropriately ...

VIENNA--A U.N. scientific panel on Tuesday confirmed a previous finding that radiation from the 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan was unlikely to raise cancer rates discernibly, and said a jump in ...

Although Fukushima-based poet Ryoichi Wago missed out on winning a U.S. translation award for his work in October, he is clearly making a name for himself overseas. In 2017, the French translation ...