To reduce radiation across Japan's northern Fukushima region after the 2011 nuclear disaster, authorities scraped a layer of contaminated soil from swathes of land.

A short drive from the Fukushima nuclear disaster site, novice farmer Takuya Haraguchi tends to his kiwi saplings under the ...

RADIOACTIVE soil from Fukushima will be used outside Japan’s government buildings in a bid to persuade the country that the ...

When we think of extreme radiation, Chernobyl often comes to mind as the ultimate example of nuclear disaster. But what if similar radiation levels exist elsewhere in the world, right now? In this ...

By Tarney Baldinger On April 26, 1986, a reactor at the Chornobyl Nuclear Plant in northern Ukraine melted down and exploded.

The decision to resume construction marks an abrupt about-face by the Trump administration, which halted the project last ...

Hidden deep within Fukushima’s radiation exclusion zone lies an observatory untouched since the 2011 nuclear disaster. Once alive with astronomers and students gazing at the stars, it now sits ...

An urban explorer snuck into the abandoned nuclear control room in the Fukushima red zone - and found it frozen in time. Lukka Ventures, 27, has been exploring abandoned buildings in the UK for ...

FUKUSHIMA'S eerie exclusion zone remains untouched by time 13 years on from its major nuclear accident. Nuclear control rooms, hospitals and apartments are just some of the areas that remain ...

The world’s worst nuclear power plant accidents to date, at Chornobyl, Ukraine, in 1986, and Fukushima, Japan in 2011, and the human exclusion zones created around them have given scientists a ...

Government declares a nuclear emergency ... April 1: Residents begin to return to the 20-km (12-mile) exclusion zone around Fukushima as decontamination of the area is completed.

A 360 degree view of a car park inside the exclusion zone in the five years since the Fukishima nuclear disaster on February 26, 2016 in Tomioka, Fukushima. Picture: Getty The disaster meant a ...