During the 1950s and 1960s, I remember the government-conducted Civil Defense drills in my school. We were told to climb under our school desks, duck down and cover our heads. We might have survived a ...

It’s getting hotter — and more expensive to stay cool — in the island nation. Will it become the first in Southeast Asia to ...

The monkeys were killed as agricultural pests, but for researchers like Suzuki, the animals are invaluable specimens to determine the effects of radiation from the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

Two bills before the General Assembly could fast-track nuclear power plant construction to address the state’s energy ...

The Observatory will also monitor radiation in ... water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the ocean. There have been concerns about the long-term effects on the ocean food chain and ...

During the 1950s and 1960s, I remember the government-conducted Civil Defense drills in my school. We were told to climb under our school desks, duck down and cover our heads. We might have survived a ...

The most essential material in construction is concrete. It is durable, versatile, and strong. Not only concrete can stay stable for many years, be molded into different shapes and sizes, and ...

Forty percent of the workforce at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant worry about radiation issues on the job, a nearly three-fold spike over the previous year, a survey found. More than ...

Tokyo Electric Power Company has announced plans to start dismantling treated water tanks at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear ...

The operator of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant said Wednesday that it will start dismantling treated water tanks next week to clear space needed to store nuclear fuel debris to be ...

Scientists have been arguing about the health risks from radiation since the end of the 19th century, when radioactivity was ...

This episode comes to us from the podcast at SF Public Press. “Exposed” opens a window into the little-known history of the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. The sprawling abandoned naval base, in San ...