Japanese authorities are preparing to release treated radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean, nearly 12 years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster. This will relieve pressure on more than 1,000 ...

A controversial plan to release more than one million tons of treated radioactive water into the sea is now underway in Japan, giving scientists here in the Bay Area pause as well as those who seek ...

Smoke rises from one of damaged reactors at Tokyo Electric Power's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, March 27, 2011 (Photo courtesy TEPCO) WOODS HOLE, Massachusetts, November 11, 2014 (ENS) – In ...

Contaminated cooling water is now spilling into the ocean in Fukushima, taking radioactive isotopes from the reactor core into the environment. And the cleanup situation is dire.

Decades after the Cold War ended, a silent hazard lingers on the floor of the Barents Sea. TheSoviet nuclear submarine Komsomolets (K-159), which sank in 2003 while being towed to a scrapyard, is ...