Lethal radiation levels of more than 10,000 millisieverts per hour raise the need for caution to even greater extremes that workers at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant must take.
Restrictions in electricity use are creating a demand in clothing that cools.
Japan on Tuesday suspended cattle shipments from the wagyu-producing Fukushima prefecture on fears of radiation-tainted beef in the country's meat distribution chain.
A dozen massive peaks, some active, are discovered in a novel scan of the Antarctic ocean floor.
Soil radiation outside the nuclear evacuation zone is above levels that prompted resettlement after the Chernobyl disaster, citizens' groups said Tuesday.
A magnitude 6.7 earthquake hit the region most affected by the March 11 magnitude 9.0 quake and tsunami.
The Fukushima nuclear plant still hasn't recovered following the devastating tsunami on March 11 that crippled it.
Our perception of seismic risk is skewed into thinking earthquakes at plate boundaries are more deadly. We're wrong.
Workers entered a reactor building at Japan's stricken nuclear plant Thursday for the first time since an explosion hit the facility a day after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
Workers entered a reactor building at Japan's stricken nuclear plant Thursday for the first time since an explosion hit the facility a day after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
