More than two years have passed since a major earthquake and devastating tsunami damaged the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, and still not a single case of radiation illness or death occurred ...

Announcing the findings of a highly anticipated report scheduled for release later this year, a United Nations (UN) committee tasked with assessing the radiation risk resulting from the Fukushima ...

On the same day that Japan's prime minister declared the country would re-start nuclear reactors shut down in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima power-plant disaster, the World Health Organization ...

Under the crippled reactors of Fukushima Daiichi, in spaces once assumed to be sterile and lifeless, scientists are finding ...

OKUMA, Japan (AP) — The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant's radiation levels have significantly dropped since the cataclysmic meltdown in Japan 14 years ago. Workers walk around in many areas ...

Ionizing radiation apparently didn’t prevent some types of bacteria from breeding in the water, but astonishingly, they are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. render of bacteria in biofilm In Earth's highly radioactive hotspots, life can get pretty strange – from fungus that seems to ...

VIENNA (Reuters) - Japan's nuclear accident is not expected to have any serious impact on people's health, based on the information available now, the head of a U.N. scientific body said on Wednesday.

Like the radiation discovered in spinach and milk, the contaminated water around Fukushima Prefecture has been deemed safe, despite them being above “normal ...

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 ...

MATSUMOTO, Japan (AP) — The 12-year-old girl didn’t want to leave her younger brother, and her grandparents didn’t want her to go away. But a family living near the “no-go zone” surrounding Japan’s ...