WASHINGTON (February 11, 2014) — Today is the official publication date for Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster (New Press, $27.95), the first comprehensive account of the March 2011 Japanese ...

The story of the 2011 catastrophe at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant unfolds in a new book-length account from the Union of Concerned Scientists, a nonprofit advocacy group.

Seven days earlier, a magnitude-9 quake had rattled a complex of six nuclear power plants known as Fukushima Daiichi. On March 18, 2011, a team from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC ...

In 1982, less than four years after Three Mile Island’s partial meltdown, members of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) resisted the need to plan for worst-case scenarios at nuclear plants.

As the recovery process continues nearly a decade after the devastating 2011 Japan earthquake, organizers of the 2020 Tokyo Summer Games say they want to help Fukushima.

The last book I will discuss— Fukushima: the story of a nuclear disaster —is the best. David Lochbaum, director of the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) Nuclear Safety Project; Edwin Lyman, a UCS ...

On March 18, 2011, an official from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission named Chuck Casto called together the NRC delegation on assignment with him in Tokyo. “We’re in never-never land ...

This handout photo shows the smoking No. 3 reactor building (C) and buildings of reactors No. 2 (L, front) and No. 4 (R, back) of the quake-hit Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, March 21 ...

When a huge earthquake and tsunami struck Japan on March 11, 2011, devastating towns and triggering nuclear meltdowns in Fukushima, a stunned world watched the chaotic struggle to contain the ...

Waves crashed ashore at more than 500 miles per hour, killing thousands and setting off a nuclear disaster in Fukushima. Nick Schifrin will look at that nuclear explosion and fallout in a moment.

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