Would you pay $100 for 3 peaches from a nuclear disaster zone?

London luxury hotspot Harrods says it proudly sells "the most exquisite products from around the world" - including some pricey peaches from Fukushima.

• Sep 10, 2024

Mission launched to sample radioactive debris from Fukushima reactor

Japanese officials launch a complex mission to retrieve a sample of melted fuel debris from a damaged reactor at the Fukushima nuclear plant.

• Sep 10, 2024

First images show damage deep inside Japan's worst-hit nuclear reactor

Images from a drone sent deep into the wreckage of Japan's earthquake-hit Fukushima nuclear plant show the aftermath of a meltdown.

• Mar 19, 2024

Thieves may have sold radioactive scrap metal from Fukushima plant

Japan's environment ministry says workers stole and sold potentially radioactive scrap metal from near the tsunami-crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.

• Sep 21, 2023

Fukushima nuclear plant starts highly controversial wastewater release

In response, China banned seafood from Japan. But Japan insists the release is needed to make room for the plant's decommissioning and to prevent accidental leaks.

• Aug 24, 2023

Japan moves toward releasing Fukushima nuke plant wastewater into sea

The plan to filter and dilute millions of tons of water from the plant crippled by the 2011 quake and tsunami and pipe it out to sea has drawn both foreign and domestic opposition.

• Jul 25, 2022

Japan to dump radioactive water from Fukushima plant into ocean

The plan to release hundreds of thousands of tons of wastewater from the crippled nuclear plant into the Pacific has angered some of Japan's residents, and neighbors.

• Apr 13, 2021

Survivor recalls Japan earthquake hitting his school 10 years later

CBS News' Lucy Craft lost contact with her son Kohei for days when the 2011 earthquake and tsunami ravaged the region where he was going to school.

• Mar 11, 2021

Japanese city wiped out by the tsunami is rebuilt, but not healed

"There's collective grief, and that is one of those things you don't snap out of," a resident of Rikuzen-Takata says. "When everyone is sad together, it's intense."

• Mar 11, 2021

How a "miracle piano" has helped to heal Japan's tsunami scars

Hiroshi Endo's determination to resurrect a high school's treasured instrument was more about fixing broken hearts than mud-mangled keys.

• Mar 9, 2021

Japan said to opt to release treated Fukushima water into sea

The decision is highly controversial and staunchly opposed by environmentalists and local fishermen and farmers, among others.

• Oct 16, 2020

Power company execs cleared of negligence in Fukushima disaster

Former chairman and 2 others found not guilty of criminal negligence, as judge rules they couldn't have anticipated 2011 tsunami damage

• Sep 19, 2019

Workers start removing fuel from Japan's quake-damaged nuke reactor

Beginning of work to extract fuel from 3 Fukushima reactors that melted down is a milestone, but the hardest work is yet to come

• Apr 15, 2019

Robot probes nuclear reactor

Bread loaf-sized bot captures images of harsh impact of meltdown "caused by the melted fuel or its heat".

• Jul 20, 2017

Robot probes crippled nuke reactor for melted fuel

Bread loaf-sized bot captures images of harsh impact of Fukushima meltdown "caused by the melted fuel or its heat"

• Jul 20, 2017

Radiation from Japan's nuclear disaster detected on Oregon shores

Seawater samples indicate radiation from the Fukushima, but at extremely low levels deemed not harmful to humans or the environment

• Dec 9, 2016

Radiation reaches U.S.

For the first time, radiation from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan has been found in the United States. CBSN's Cindy Hsu has the story on how researchers detected radiation on the coast of Oregon.

• Dec 9, 2016

Fukushima meltdown apology: "It was a cover-up"

TEPCO Power Co. boss admits his predecessor ordered staff to hide the looming disaster, but was it a crime?

• Jun 21, 2016

Japanese woman breaks silence on Fukushima-related cancer

Near-silence about disease highlights fears of thyroid-cancer patients from disaster area about being "nail that sticks out"

• Jun 7, 2016

Japan switches on ice wall to pen radioactive leaks

Decontamination of Fukushima nuke plant damaged by 2011 earthquake and tsunami may hinge of the success of the wall

• Mar 31, 2016

Japan marks 5th anniversary of devastating tsunami and earthquake

2011 disaster killed more than 18,000 people, devastated coastline that has still not been fully rebuild

• Mar 10, 2016

5 years on, Japan nuke plant still leaking radioactive water

And company that owns the crippled Fukushima facility says work to staunch the flow will take almost as long again

• Mar 8, 2016

Japan confirms Fukushima worker has developed cancer

Man who worked at other plants before helping clean up after 2011 disaster is being compensated for radiation-induced illness

• Oct 20, 2015

​Japanese city shaves mountain to avoid future tsunamis

After suffering enormous damage from the 2011 tsunami, Rikuzentakata has devised a plan to make its city stand taller -- literally

• Aug 21, 2015

Sister city to the rescue

When the residents of Fort Bragg, Calif., saw their sister city in Japan devastated by the tsunami, they started fundraising. Former Mayor Lindy Peters says 6,000 people raised over $160,000.

• Mar 18, 2015

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