Fukushima

Court Awards Fukushima Residents Measly $3,200 for Nuclear Disaster That Made Area Unlivable

Video from Underwater Robot Shows Melted Nuclear Fuel in Bowels of Fukushima Reactor

Common Dreams staff

Since disaster in 2011, this is the first time plant operator has found something likely to be melted fuel

Experts: US Still 'Needlessly Vulnerable' to Fukushima-Style Disaster

Nadia Prupis, staff writer

Nuclear industry pressured regulatory commission into low-balling consequences...

Sparking Fears of Airborne Radiation, Wildfire Burns in Fukushima 'No-Go Zone'

Lauren McCauley, staff writer

Kendra Ulrich, senior Global Energy campaigner for Greenpeace Japan on the Asakaze, a research vessel chartered by Greenpeace Japan, doing radiation survey work off shore of Fukushima Daiich. (Photo: Greenpeace)

Contaminated forests such as those outside fallout sites like Fukushima and...

Tsunami Panic After 6.9 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Off Fukushima Coast

Public Cost of Fukushima Cleanup Tops $40 Billion and Is Expected to Climb

Greenpeace: 'Extremely High' Jump in Post-Fukushima Radioactive Chemicals

Five Years After Fukushima, US 'Woefully' Unprepared for Nuclear Disaster

In 'Landmark Victory,' Japanese Court Orders Nuke Plant Shutdown

Five Years After Fukushima, 'No End in Sight' to Ecological Fallout

Ex-TEPCO Bosses Indicted in 'Major Step' for Justice in Fukushima

'Fukushima Fingerprint': Highest-Yet Radiation Levels Found Off US Coast

Chernobyl Wildlife Study: 'Amazing Illustration' of Humanity's Everyday Threat

Near-Total Meltdown of Fukushima Reactor 2 Confirmed

In First, TEPCO Dumps Fukushima Groundwater Into Pacific Ocean

Fukushima Report Dangerously Downplays Ongoing Health Risks

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Fish From Fukushima

Fishermen have resumed fishing after postponing their start when hundreds of tons of radioactive water were found leaking from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. Twenty-one trawlers brought home 5 tons of seafood, including octopus and squid, from the trial operation; if testing shows they're safe, they'll be shipped to markets in Japan. While older people are said to be buying fish from the sea off Fukushima Prefecture, others don't want their kids or grandkids eating it...