radiation

Some residents of Hereford are unsettled after a letter they got with their water bill.

CARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Energy says it has appointed a team to investigate the detection of radiation in and near a southeastern New Mexico facility that's the nation's only underground nuclear waste repository.

The areas surrounding the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan may be uninhabitable for decades. That’s the word from the Japanese government after a survey found dangerously high levels of radioactive contamination.

Radiation from the Nuclear Plant in Japan has now reached the California coast. Although, some say that the radiation will be so diluted that it will pose minor health risk if any at all; others say that this could have similar ramifications to Chernobyl...

I feel for all of the people who are in need of help in Japan and other areas. After looking at this catastrophe, it makes me wonder if nuclear power is really a viable option for the energy crisis.