Japan said it plans to use some of the slightly radioactive soil removed from across Fukushima and stored near the wrecked ...

The earthquake shook Japan to its core, but the worst was still to come. At Fukushima, power failed, reactors overheated, and an invisible threat began to spread.

A 360 degree view of a car park inside the exclusion zone in the five years since the Fukishima nuclear disaster on February 26, 2016 in Tomioka, Fukushima. Picture: Getty The disaster meant a ...

Japan said it plans to use some of the slightly radioactive soil removed from across Fukushima and stored near the wrecked ...

Although afterwards TEPCO was nationalized, and a new nuclear regulatory body established, this still left Japan with the daunting task of cleaning up the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant following a strong earthquake, in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, Japan in this photo taken by Kyodo on March 17, 2022. Kyodo/Reuters ...

In her car, Ms. Kobayashi follows a route that ... that escaped when three reactors melted down at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in March 2011 after an undersea earthquake sent a towering ...

Japan's government is asking for international backup as it prepares to release thousands of gallons of water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the sea. The plan has alarmed the public ...

This was followed by an accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, which was ultimately categorized as a Level 7 — Major Accident — on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event ...

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