Radiation meters will be distributed to about 34,000 children living in the largest city near the tsunami-damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant to monitor their exposure levels, a city official sai

The top US nuclear research lab was ordered to stay closed on Tuesday after flames reached it and the local town began evacuating, though all high-risk materials were safe, officials said on Monday.

A small aerial drone measuring radiation over Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant went out of control on Friday and made an emergency landing on a reactor building roof, the operator said.

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Japanese whale hunters have found traces of radioactive caesium in two of the ocean giants recently harpooned off its shores in the Pacific Ocean, a fisheries agency official said on Wednesday.

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High levels of radioactive cesium has been detected in tea produced at a factory in Japan located 300 km from the tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear power plant.

The tea factory is situated in Shizuoka ci

India on Friday voiced concern over the “danger and threat” of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal falling into the hands of terrorists and said it is closely monitoring the situation in the neighbourhood.

In the backdrop of recent nuclear crisis in Japan, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will discuss India's disaster preparedness at a special meeting that is expected to unveil measures like installation o

Germany on Monday became the first major industrialised power to agree an end to nuclear power in the wake of the disaster in Japan, with a phase-out due to be completed by 2022.

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Tokyo Electric Power has restored the cooling system of the nuclear reactor and fuel pool at the No. 5 unit of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant in northeastern Japan, an official of the plan

The Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) has confirmed fuel meltdown in three reactors at its crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, the Kyodo news agency said on Tuesday.