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News Wrap: Iran threatens ‘all-out war’ if attacked by U.S. or Saudi Arabia

In our news wrap Thursday, Iran threatened an “all-out war” if attacked by the U.S. or Saudi Arabia. From the United Arab Emirates, Sec. of State Mike Pompeo said he hoped for a “peaceful resolution” of the tense situation. Also,…

Science Jul 24

In the wake of the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster, cesium-137 made its way through the atmosphere to vineyards in Napa Valley. But the radiation levels measured in their wines are lower than naturally occurring radiation in your own body. Photo by REUTERS/Robert Galbraith
California wines contain Fukushima radiation, and it’s not a bad thing

In the wake of the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster, cesium-137 made its way through the atmosphere to vineyards in Napa Valley. But the small amount of radiation poses more of a threat to wine counterfeiters than to your body.

By Amanda Grennell

Science Sep 30

150-megaton thermonuclear explosion, Bikini Atoll, 1 March 1954.The unexpected spread of fallout from the test led to awareness of, and research into, radioactive pollution. Courtesy UNO. Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images
What a North Korea hydrogen bomb would do to the Pacific Ocean and space stations

Here’s a closer look at what a hydrogen bomb could mean for sea creatures, fisheries, astronauts and even Google Earth.

By Nsikan Akpan

Science Mar 13

The heroes of Fukushima Dai-ichi, but don’t call them that

He was a shift supervisor on duty on March 11, 2011 when the earthquake and nuclear meltdown occurred in Japan, and by all accounts performed heroically inside a pitch dark control room at a nuclear power plant that was melting…

By Miles O'Brien

Mar 09

5 years later, Fukushima radiation continues to seep into the Pacific Ocean

By Ken Buesseler

it is incorrect to say that Fukushima is under control when levels of radioactivity in the ocean indicate ongoing leaks, caused by groundwater flowing through the site and, we think, enhanced after storms. At the same time, it is wrong…

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Sep 05

Japan allows residents to return to town near Fukushima

By Carey Reed

Residents returned to a town near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant on Saturday, as Japanese government officials celebrated a lift on a four-and-a-half-year evacuation order, deeming the area safe after radiation levels had fallen.

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Mar 11

How a hospital withstood a 9.0 quake with nary a broken window

By Ed Jahn, Oregon Public Broadcasting

Within an hour of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated central Japan in 2011, Ishinomaki Red Cross Hospital was accepting patients and acting as a refuge for throngs of survivors who’d lost everything. No broken windows. No collapsed ceilings. No…

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Feb 06

Japan to probe melted Fukushima reactor with ‘snake’ robot

By Jasmine Wright

Tokyo Electric Power Co. is finally ready to examine the inside of one of the three compromised reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant -- with the help of a remote-controlled robot that uncannily resembles a snake.

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Aug 06

Miles O’Brien returns to the site of Japan’s nuclear disaster three years later

By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy

In March 2011, a magnitude 9.0 Tohoku earthquake shook Japan, triggering a catastrophic tsunami and nuclear disaster. Since then, PBS NewsHour science correspondent Miles O’Brien has provided some of the most in-depth reporting on the subject to-date. He has traveled…

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