Japan’s decision to use contaminated soil in the prime minister’s garden is the culmination of its efforts to normalize the ...

To reduce radiation across Japan's northern Fukushima region after the 2011 nuclear disaster, authorities scraped a layer of ...

Japan plans to use some of the slightly radioactive soil removed from across Fukushima prefecture on flower beds outside ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba may well be about to have the grounds of his office sprinkled with radioactive soil, in a bid ...

RADIOACTIVE soil from Fukushima will be used outside Japan’s government buildings in a bid to persuade the country that the ...

When we think of extreme radiation, Chernobyl often comes to mind as the ultimate example of nuclear disaster. But what if similar radiation levels exist elsewhere in the world, right now? In this ...

By Tarney Baldinger On April 26, 1986, a reactor at the Chornobyl Nuclear Plant in northern Ukraine melted down and exploded.

Increased incidences of radiation-related health effects among those exposed from the March 2011 accident at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant are unlikely to be discernible, the United ...

Fukushima data is “less rigorous” compared with Chornobyl because less radiation was emitted in the Japanese accident, making radiation effects statistically much harder to detect, said Mousseau.

"Interestingly, the latter process appeared relatively weak compared to the effects of anxiety ... toward possible food radiation contamination following the Fukushima nuclear accident: a nine ...

More information: Saneyoshi Ueno et al, Rapid survey of de novo mutations in naturally growing tree species following the March 2011 disaster in Fukushima: the effect of low-dose-rate radiation ...