where the Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant is located, had to evacuate about 7,000 residents due to the accident. Since the evacuation order was lifted in 2020 ...

It marked the first time an evacuation order has been lifted for a residential area in the government-designated “difficult-to-return” zone in Fukushima Prefecture since the 2011 disaster at ...

A medical clinic in Futaba Town, Fukushima Prefecture While progress has been made in the difficult-to-return zone, more than 90% of the locations within it have evacuation orders still in place.

The Fukushima disaster was ... The government has lifted evacuation orders for much of the region affected by the meltdown, ...

Armed with measuring devices, groups of citizens are embracing science to monitor radioactive fallout — and regain control of lives upended by the 2011 meltdowns in Fukushima. Armed with ...

Almost every month, Konno drives more than 100 kilometers from his evacuation housing to his old hometown in Fukushima Prefecture ... a "difficult-to-return" zone. He needs to apply for government ...

Minamisoma, a city located in Fukushima and one of the areas stricken by the nuclear accident at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant, is now divided into “caution zone,” ”planned evacuation ...

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident became a new focus of the news from the nignt of March 11. A lowered water level inside the No. 2 reactor and expansion of the evacuation zone were reported ...

After the destruction triggered a radioactive leak at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Prime Minister Naoto Kan immediately declared a voluntary evacuation zone 20 kilometers in radius ...