THE disaster last year at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, caused by an earthquake and tsunami, scored seven on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES). No worse ...

Q. Is all radiation harmful? A. No. There are two types of radiation: non-ionizing and ionizing. Non-ionizing radiation includes infrared radiation, radio waves, cell phone radiation and the radiation ...

By comparison, normal exposure rates range from approximately 0.03 microsieverts (a microsievert is one-tenth of a millirem) per hour to 0.23 microsieverts per hour in La Paz, Bolivia, the highest ...

It's possible that Japan's nuclear crisis might be as bad as Chernobyl was. The radiation released in the Chernobyl accident was equivalent to several hundred Hiroshima bombs. Just reading about the ...

The completion of decontamination work allowed residents of a small part of the Fukushima exclusion zone to return home Tuesday, just over three years after they were forced into exile. The reopening ...

The U.K. Health Protection Agency estimates the typical Briton receives about 2,200 microsieverts of radiation per year from background radiation, or about 0.251 microsieverts per hour — more than ...

HIRONO, Japan » The complex known here as J-Village was once Japan’s largest soccer training facility. A statue in the building’s foyer depicts three soccer players battling for a ball. The logo of ...

The vehicles appear to be outwardly sound but were owned by people living close to the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant when it was destroyed by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Others come from ...

Tepco removed tainted soil near the sports complex where the 2020 Olympic torch relay will start in Japan after Greenpeace Japan found radiation hot spots there, utility spokesman Koichiro Shiraki ...