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Recycling contaminated soil from Fukushima: Japan’s dilemma

To reduce radiation across Japan's northern Fukushima region after the 2011 nuclear disaster, authorities scraped a layer of contaminated soil from swathes of land. Now,...

Japan to begin trial removal of nuclear debris from Fukushima reactor

Tokyo, Japan—The operator of Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant said Monday it will send a probe inside a battered reactor this week for a...

Ukraine’s forces train near Chernobyl exclusion zone

Deserted since the world's worst nuclear disaster in 1986, the exclusion zone surrounding the decommissioned Chernobyl power plant in northern Ukraine is one of...

Japan’s Fukushima region forges renewable future after nuclear disaster

By Etienne Balmer and Harumi Ozawa NAMIE, Japan—Solar farms along tsunami-ravaged coastlines, green energy “micro-grids” and the experimental production of non-polluting hydrogen: 11 years after...

Made in Fukushima: Japan farmers struggle to win trust

By Anne Beade The pumpkin is diced, the chicken carved and the eggs beaten into an omelette, but the people preparing the food are not...

‘Citizen scientists’ track radiation seven years after Fukushima

Beneath the elegant curves of the roof on the Seirinji Buddhist temple in Japan’s Fukushima region hangs an unlikely adornment: A Geiger counter collecting...
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