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Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant

Nuclear reactors of No. 5, center left, and 6 look over tanks storing water that was treated but still radioactive, at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant

Plan to dump Fukushima’s radioactive water into ocean causes outcry

Energy

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is running out of space to store its radioactive water. Japanese authorities want to release it into the Pacific Ocean.

Children play near a Geiger counter that monitors radiation at a kindergarten about 30 miles from the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The government is increasingly pushing families displaced by the disaster to return to their home

Some of Japan’s ‘nuclear refugees’ can finally go home — but they don’t want to

Environment
Former NHK anchor Jun Hori speaks at a TEDx event in Kyoto, Japan, about opening Japanese journalism to non-traditional sources.

Japan’s timid coverage of Fukushima led this news anchor to revolt — and he’s not alone

Media
These residents have been given temporary jobs maintaining public places.

Not everyone wants the clean-up in Fukushima to be over

Environment
PBS NewsHour Science Correspondent Miles O'Brien

Science reporter Miles O’Brien on the Fukushima cleanup, irradiated fish and losing his arm on assignment

Environment
A sign reading "Nuclear Power - The Energy for a Better Future" hangs over a street in the town of Futaba, inside the 12-mile radius exclusion zone around Japan’s crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in a 2012 photo.

One lesson of the Fukushima nuclear meltdown is that Japan’s culture needs to change

Environment

Three years after the triple meltdown at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, neither local communities nor the country’s economy have fully recovered. And one critic says Japan won’t be safe again until it’s made some fundamental changes in its culture.Three years after the triple meltdown at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, neither local communities nor the country’s economy have fully recovered. And one critic says Japan won’t be safe again until it’s made some fundamental changes in its culture.

A Tokyo Electric Power Corp (TEPCO) official and journalists wearing protective equipment stand near storage tanks for radioactive water at Japan's tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in November, 2013. A team of Japanese scientists say

Algae to the rescue at Fukushima? Scientists say it could help

Environment

Japanese researchers say they’ve found a species of algae that could help decontaminate radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant. But they say the plant’s owners don’t seem very interested in the idea.

New evidence suggests systematic torture by Syria’s government

Global Scan

New images and reports have surfaced of wholesale torture and starvation on the part of the Syrian regime, just as peace talks to end the war are set to start on Wednesday. On the US west coast, scientists dispel fears that Pacific Ocean fish are contaminated with Fukushima radiation. And side-by-side men’s toilets at an Olympic venue have become a social media joke. That and more, in today’s Global Scan.

An aerial view of the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and its contaminated water storage tanks, taken August 31, 2013. Japan pledged nearly $500 million to contain leaks and decontaminate radioactive water fro

Fukushima Leaks Up the Ante for Japanese Government

Environment

Host Marco Werman speaks with Jeff Kingston of Temple University Japan about the status of the cleanup, what’s at stake for the government, and the government’s delicate relationship with TEPCO, the company that owns the plant.

Fukushima Nuclear Plant Crisis Worsens

Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) has once declared a radiological event at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. This is the first time that the nation has declared an event of this scale since the 2011 earthquake and tsunami ravaged Japan and brought destruction to the plant. On Wednesday, the United Nation’s International Atomic Energy […]