The Mainichi Shimbun answers some common questions readers may have about what Japan will do with soil removed around the ...

Remotely operated robots are set to begin work in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant’s basements next week, Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) announced on March 21. Their mission: remove ...

01:28 – View of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. • 01:39 – Test road with recycled low-radioactive waste under 8,000 Bq inside the interim storage facility. Monitoring radiation.

About 16 kilometers south of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant sits an exhibition center dedicated to preserving the memory of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.

The bags will then be placed inside containers for radioactive material and kept at a temporary storage site outside the buildings, the spokesman said. Three of Fukushima’s six reactors went ...

ON March 11, 2011, a massive earthquake and tsunami hit Tepco's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (NPS), releasing ...

OKUMA, Fukushima — The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant's radiation levels ... room to build facilities needed for the research and storage of melted fuel debris. After a series of small ...

The removed soil is legally required to be disposed of outside Fukushima Prefecture by March ... meters of the soil are stored at an interim storage facility that spans across the towns of Okuma ...

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 ...