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Cesium-137 contamination: Fukushima amounts to four Chernobyls

TEPCO’s new estimates suggest that its Fukushima reactor has released more than quadruple the amount of radioactive cesium-137 leaked during the Chernobyl disaster. But the method used to measure the damage may undervalue the hazard even further.

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Energy crisis looms: Japan closes last reactor

Japan is set to shut down its last operational nuclear plant following last year’s Fukushima meltdown disaster. However, with a giant energy quota to fill and no viable substitute, many predict a nuclear-free future will be short-lived.

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Fishy help? Controversy over Japan food aid from tainted areas

A year on from Fukushima, Japan is struggling to convince consumers that fish from contaminated areas is safe. With new limits imposed on radioactive substances in food, the government is sending canned fish to developing countries to feed children.

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Rebuilding Japan: 1 year post-disaster

One year on after the March 11 disastrous quake and tsunami, Japan is pressing ahead with reconstruction efforts, but still faces enormous challenges in overcoming country’s worst disaster since World War II.

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Quake enigma: The more it shakes, the less it shows

The 9.0 magnitude earthquake and the subsequent tsunami that devastated Japan’s east coast exactly one year ago were not supposed to happen. At least if seismic hazard maps are not cheating. But can modern science really predict such disasters?

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‘So this is what dying is like’: Japan remembers disaster

A year ago to the day, Japan was hit by a 9.0 earthquake and a resulting tsunami that led to the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. Thousands lost their lives but the question is: if it all happened again, would things turn out any differently?

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Inquiry: TEPCO nearly abandoned burning Fukushima

Beleaguered Japanese energy company TEPCO has been dealt another blow after a scathing report accused it of risking a chain reaction of nuclear meltdowns when it tried to abandon the Fukushima power plant last March.­

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Rising to its feet: Japan before & after (AMAZING PHOTOS)

With the powerful earthquake and tsunami hitting Japan last year, the country seemed to be devastated and almost beyond recovery. Still, 11 months on, the Japanese have made amazing progress in raising their lives and cities from the rubble.

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Frozen Fukushima leaking water

Up to 8.5 tons of radioactive water have leaked from Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. TEPCO, the plant’s operator, failed to winterize the reactor’s cooling system, leading to fractures in its pipes due to frozen water inside.

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‘Criminal event’ at Fukushima calls for deeper investigation

An inquiry into the Fukushima disaster has revealed the plant operators failed to respond properly to the situation. Christopher Busby, an expert with the European Committee on Radiation Risks thinks the investigation “has not gone far enough.”

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Wild monkeys to measure Fukushima radiation

Scientists in Japan are struggling to assess the consequences of the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster amid continuing concerns over high levels of radiation. Now help is at hand in the form of the area’s wild monkey population.

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Hermitage to send its best to Tokyo

After having cancelled their glass display in Japan in September, the Russian State Hermitage decided to send paintings to the country, which suffered from a disastrous tsunami that caused a dangerous failure at the Fukushima nuclear power plant.

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Fukushima 45 tonne radioactive leak 'reaches ocean'

Experts warn Japan faces more danger from radioactive particles in consumer food, after reports of a new toxic water leak from the Fukushima nuclear plant.

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First glimpse into Fukushima graveyard (VIDEO)

Japan has opened the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to journalists for the first time since the disaster of last March. RT has obtained a video of the inside of the crippled complex.

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A roof panel installed by a large crane at the unit 1 reactor building of TEPCO's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant at Okuma town in Fukushima prefecture on October 28, 2011 (AFP Photo / TEPCO)

Not gone fission: New fears at Fukushima

The radioactive gas Xenon has been detected at Fukushima Dai-Ichi, meaning that out-of-control nuclear fission might be still going on in the remnants of the active zone of reactor two.

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Fukushima: Exposure underrated, outcome obscure

The consequences of the Fukushima disaster will be emerging for at least several decades. According to the Japanese government, it will take up to 30 years for the complete clean up of the radiation released from the reactors.

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Hermitage cancels Japan exhibition over radiation fears

An exhibition of glass from the collection of the State Hermitage which had been due to open in Japan has been cancelled due to radiation.

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Fukushima in meltdown before tsunami hit

Workers at Japan's Fukushima plant say the ground under the facility is cracking and radioactive steam is escaping through the fissures. They also say pipes and at least one reactor were seriously damaged before the tsunami hit the area in March.

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Fukushima refugees shunned by Japanese society

Tens of thousands of Japanese refugees who have faced the triple horror of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis now have another worry - their fellow citizens.

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Fukushima crisis to be resolved in six months

After visiting the Fukushima nuclear plant and meeting with Japan’s prime minister, the head of the IAEA, Yukiya Amano, has promised to provide all necessary expertise to complete the second phase of containing the crisis by early next year.

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