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IIATE, Japan -- To reduce radiation across Japan's northern Fukushima region after the 2011 nuclear disaster, authorities scraped a layer of contaminated soil from swathes of ...
TOKYO (AP) — Japan said Tuesday it plans to use some slightly radioactive soil stored near the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant on flower beds at Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s office ...
Japan plans to reuse slightly radioactive Fukushima nuclear plant on flower beds at Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's office to show it is safe, to counter public concerns.
A tricky operation to remove a second sample of radioactive debris from inside Japan’s stricken Fukushima nuclear plant has been completed, the site operator said Wednesday. Dangerously high ...
Fourteen years after the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami that triggered meltdowns at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, some 4,700 people are on hand at the facility each day, working ...
The decommissioning process for the Fukushima Daiichi site and surroundings is scheduled to be completed by 2051. It will require many innovations, and careful planning. Here are some of the details ...
A customer tries peaches from Japan's Fukushima prefecture, which went on sale at luxury department store Harrods in central London, Sept. 7, 2024. STR/JIJI Press/AFP/Getty ...
The company submitted its plan for decommissioning Fukushima Daini to the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) in May 2020. According to the plan, the decommissioning process is expected to take 44 ...
Fukushima Is Japan's Capital of Sake — Here Are the Best Breweries to Visit Since the days of the samurai, Fukushima has been known as Japan’s sake kingdom.
Four top Japanese government ministers, including Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, ate sashimi from Fukushima this week, seeking to dispel safety concerns about fish from the region after the release ...
TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and three Cabinet ministers ate Fukushima fish sashimi at a lunch meeting Wednesday, in an apparent effort to show that fish is safe following ...
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.