With the Japanese government only providing spotty information about the radiation leaking from the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant in the early days after the devastating March 11 earthquake and ...

A map of radiation levels in Japan released by the US Department of Energy on Tuesday evening indicates that potentially dangerous levels of radioactive contamination have spread beyond the 13 ...

Difficulties in measuring radiation are increasing confusion in Japan. The government must weigh incomplete and sometimes contradictory data before making decisions.

Scientists have constructed local and nation-wide maps of the radioactive particles that rained down when the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant failed after a massive earthquake and tsunami rocked ...

UPDATED 3/26: The above map is the one Professor Van Hippel was referring to that Rachel said we'd put on the blog. Below, a wider view of the effect of wind patterns on radiation dispersal ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Pentagon on Wednesday posted a website mapping the amount of radiation to which the tens of thousands of Americans in Japan at the time of last year’s earthqu… ...

Crowd-sourced maps like this one allow the public to view radiation levels as monitored by users. The world's eyes have been on Japan, watching the nation cope with earthquakes, tsunamis, and now the ...

For months, citizen scientists in Japan have been trying to shine a brighter public spotlight on radiation readings from the region surrounding the Fukushima nuclear disaster site, in part because ...

RDTN.ORG asks people to submit radiation readings from their locations for posting on a Google map that aggregates the data ...

Eight months after a tsunami caused a nuclear accident in Japan, ordinary people are using new technology and the power of crowdsourcing to find radiation hotspots. NewsHour science correspondent ...