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Nine countries now possess nuclear weapons and we have just seen the start of a new war in the Middle East over one more nation supposedly trying to acquire them. While we consider the dangers of such ...

Every new tsunami alert in Japan triggers traumatic memories of March 11, 2011 and fears of another nuclear meltdown.

It's an art exhibition you can't visit. Not yet, at least, until officials declare the Fukushima exclusion zone habitable again, which for certain areas could take decades. The exhibition, slated to ...

Since the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan in March 2011, the prefecture of Fukushima has entered the global imagination as a dangerous ground zero, home to a nuclear facility ...

Hundreds of tons of radioactive water escaped from the Fukushima Daiichi plant into the Pacific. It created what’s been called the “Fukushima Plume.” And over the last three years, ocean currents have ...

According to a team of Stanford University researchers, most of these deaths will likely occur in Japan, but there could be as many as 30 casualties from radiation exposure in North America. These ...

The #1 movie on HBO Max right now is a documentary, Fukushima: A Nuclear Nightmare, an exploration of the real-life Fukushima nuclear disaster.

Before Chernobyl and Fukushima, there was Windscale — the nuclear disaster Britain tried to erase from history. In 1957, a ...