Fifteen years ago, Fukushima, Japan, was home to one of the worst nuclear disasters in history. Today, some places in the region look just as they did in the immediate aftermath of that fateful Friday ...

FUKUSHIMA, Japan — Nature is reclaiming abandoned buildings in the exclusion zone surrounding Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, an area that appears frozen in time 15 years after disaster struck.

March 11 marks the 15th anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. It also marks the new growth of plant life and, as Muneo Kanno, a rice farmer of Fukushima, told me, “fushicho no gotoku” or ...

The world witnessed one of the worst nuclear disasters in history. The Fukushima Daiichi power plant disaster, triggered by a magnitude 9.1 earthquake and the resulting tsunami, caused a chain ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. This story was originally published by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and was ...

The perils of a nuclear disaster seem relatively abstract compared to the very tangible horrors of an earthquake and tsunami. But those two events are mere overture to “Fukushima: A Nuclear Nightmare” ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Fifteen years ago, Fukushima, Japan, was home to one of the worst nuclear disasters in history. Today, ...