Japan's largest utility said Thursday that more radiation than previously thought was released into the atmosphere in March 2011, in the days after the nuclear disaster that followed an earthquake and tsunami. full story ![]()

Hundreds of survivors of the Fukushima nuclear crisis in Japan filed a class action lawsuit Monday seeking restitution for the radioactive fallout.
discovery.com (2 months and 16 days ago)
April 7 - Radioactive water from Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant has seeped into the soil. Deborah Gembara reports.
reuters.com (1 month and 17 days ago)
Another leak at the Japan's Fukushima power plant . This time, 120 tons of radioactive water have seeped into the soil.
palmbeachpost.com (1 month and 17 days ago)
THE owners of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan say contaminated water may have leaked from its tanks.
news.com.au (1 month and 17 days ago)
TOKYO (Reuters) - As much as 120 tons of radioactive water may have leaked from a storage tank at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, contaminating the surrounding ground, Tokyo Electric Power Co said on Saturday.
reuters.com (1 month and 18 days ago)
Radioactive water may have leaked into the surrounding ground from a storage tank at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPC) said Saturday, adding the incident underscores the safety concerns over the crippled nuclear fuel facility. Apparently, close to 120 tons of radioactive water may have leaked from one of its seven underground storage tanks...
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PARIS (Reuters) - A shipment of highly radioactive nuclear fuel to Japan left the port of Cherbourg in northern France on Wednesday for the first time since the Fukushima disaster, French energy group Areva said on Thursday.
reuters.com (1 month and 6 days ago)

Bluefin tuna just can't catch a break. Weeks after it was reported that overfishing had reduced the Pacific population of the fish, which is popular in sushi bars, by over 96 percent, researchers have found trace levels of radiation still lingering in their flesh almost two years after the catastrophe at the nuclear plant in Fukushima, Japan. And the tuna they studied were...
huffingtonpost.com (3 months and 2 days ago)
TOKYO — The operator of Japan's crippled nuclear power plant says it has detected a fresh leak of radioactive water from one of the facility's storage tanks.Tokyo Electric Power Co. previously said that two of seven underground tanks at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant had been leaking since Saturday.TEPCO said Tuesday that the latest leak involves a tank that was being used to...
bostonherald.com (1 month and 15 days ago)

TOKYO (Reuters) - The operator of Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant said on Friday it lost the ability to cool radioactive fuel rods in one of the plant's crippled reactors for about three hours earlier in the day.
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