4 Years after Fukushima

Japan’s citizens, and scientists worldwide, do not have answers to basic health and environment questions

We know surprisingly little about what low-dose radiation does to organisms and ecosystems. Four years after the disaster in Fukushima, scientists are beginning to get some answers

The EPA plans to reevaluate standards for tritium in water

Why do people choose to stay near places like Chernobyl and Fukushima?

Unique turbines that float on the surface rather than rest on the seafloor can be placed in deeper waters

Having led Japan through the 2011 nuclear crisis, the elder statesman is now campaigning for a world without nuclear power

The Japan government is being called on to intervene as the power company responsible fails to cope and regulators upgrade the severity level of the leakage

Radioactive cesium from Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster shows up in bluefin tuna off the California coast, offering researchers a way to follow the fish's migratory history

Hotspots of radiation from the nuclear disaster are still likely to cause localized, small increases in cancer risk, according to a new report by the World Health Organization

Bottom-dwelling fish continue to be found with high levels of radioactive elements, potentially coming from leaking radioactive water or contaminated sediments

The U.S. has reactors of the same designs that melted down at Fukushima Daiichi, but regulators hope changes could prevent a repeat of Japan's nuclear crisis

Heart disease and depression are likely to claim more lives than radiation after the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident, experts say

The Fukushima evacuation zone raises the issue of what would happen during an evacuation in heavily populated U.S. metropolises during a nuclear meltdown

The massive shift, laterally and upward, caused the epic March 2011 tsunami

What the future holds for Japan's Fukushima Daiichi plant

The surprising accident at Fukushima puts the spotlight on a new generation of U.S. nuclear reactors. Are they safe enough?

Regulators and industry have one precious moment to recapture the public's trust

Aerial views of the damage at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant from March 12 to March 17 show signs of the chaotic sequence of events ranging from explosions to fires

Scientific American's David Biello judges Fukushima to have reached Chernobyl proportions. Steve Mirsky reports

The environmental and health effects of nuclear power's greatest calamity will last for generations