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What you need to know about modern nuclear war

Conflict

Science Friday host Ira Flatow spoke to three nuclear experts to learn more about what modern nuclear war might look like.

Children play near a Geiger counter that monitors radiation at a kindergarten about 30 miles from the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The government is increasingly pushing families displaced by the disaster to return to their home

Some of Japan’s ‘nuclear refugees’ can finally go home — but they don’t want to

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A man walks between a fallow rice field at Miyakoji area in Tamura, Fukushima prefecture on April 1, 2014. The area was finally opened to residents three years after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.

Riding the bus through Japan’s forbidden nuclear zone

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Two years later, Fukushima still reeling from tsunami’s effects

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Sunflowers used to clean up radiation

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In Japan, Citizen Radiation-Tracking Project Goes Big Time

Global Politics

A post-Fukushima effort to crowdsource radiation data in Japan has since become the largest source of radiation data in the country. And it’s now set to expand to other parts of the world. Catherine Winter reports from Tokyo.

In Stressful Wake of Fukushima Disaster, Japan Now Dealing With ‘Atomic Divorce’

Environment

Two years after the Fukushima tsunami and nuclear disaster, life is still far from normal for survivors. Anxiety over radiation and discrimination is now causing mental health problems and a slew of social problems from divorce to suicide.

The Fukushima Exclusion Zone: Six Months Later

It’s been six months since three reactors at the Fukushima nuclear plant over-heated following a tsunami, forcing 100,000 people living within a 12 mile radius of the site to evacuate. Today, the reactors are still not fully stabilized, but radiation levels in one area of what has come to be known as the “exclusion zone” […]

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Safecast Crowdsourced Radation Data and the Unknown

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Safecast volunteers collect radiation data using their own Geiger counters.

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Radiation from Fukushima Nuke Plant More Than Expected

Environment

Japan says the radiation from the Fukushima plant was double the initial estimates.

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