Chernobyl and Fukushima have left a tainted legacy in a no-man’s land between radioactive dirt and an immaculate landscape of state denial, where ‘acceptable risk’ is nothing more than a euphemism for ...

When a nuclear disaster empties a landscape of people, nature doesn’t politely wait for instructions. It moves in. After the 2011 meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan, entire ...

It's an art exhibition you can't visit. Not yet, at least, until officials declare the Fukushima exclusion zone habitable again, which for certain areas could take decades. The exhibition, slated to ...

Under the crippled reactors of Fukushima Daiichi, in spaces once assumed to be sterile and lifeless, scientists are finding communities of microbes and a wider web of wildlife that are not just ...

A team of researchers in France are building on fundamental experimental research undertaken in the Ukrainian Chornobyl exclusion zone with a new project in the Japanese Fukushima Prefecture to ...

What's most striking about Japan's nuclear exclusion zone, is what you don't see. There are no people, few cars, no sign of life, aside from the occasional livestock wandering empty roads. Areas once ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Ukrainian embassy in Japan issued an apology after three Ukrainian nationals were arrested for entering the exclusion zone ...

World’s worst nuclear disaster leaves mixed legacy of nature’s resilience amid serious contamination, as wars increase lobbying for energy supply ...

These bags held radiation-contaminated soil in in the Fukushima exclusion zone, where a Ukrainian YouTuber was arrested for trespassing - Copyright AFP Yasuyoshi ...