The IAEA has been notified that Japan has given a provisional rating for the accident of level 4 on the IAEA’s International Nuclear Event Scale [pdf], which runs from 0 to 7. It has also been ...

A nuclear accident at Tokaimura, Japan, exposed Hisashi Ouchi to a record-breaking radiation dose. His 83-day decline was agonizing, with organ failure and extreme suffering. X / Una pelirroja ...

Read more: " Special report: Rescuing nuclear power " Steam rises at the no.3 reactor of the Mihama Nuclear Plant, on August 10, 2004 Update 21 March 2011: It has now emerged ...

The Japanese nuclear industry, which supplies about 25 per cent of the country’s power, is no stranger to accidents. In 1999, two workers died in an uncontrolled chain reaction at the Tokaimura ...

(For related story see [ID:nT265821]) July 18 (Reuters) - The world's biggest nuclear power plant in northwest Japan was ordered on Wednesday to stay closed after a strong earthquake caused ...