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State Secrets
An ominous new bill in Japan, on its way to becoming law, would give the government expanded powers to classify nearly anything as a secret and intimidate the press into silence.
New unpublished data reveals a slight rise in birth defects in post-nuclear-meltdown Japan. Jake Adelstein and Nathalie Stucky report on this exclusive data—and what Japan needs to do next to understand the health impact.
Tangled Up in Red
Lennox Samuels on the struggles residents and plant workers are still facing two years after the nuclear disaster.
There's no doubt Japan's disaster is already worse than Three Mile Island. Eve Conant talks to Tom Kauffman about working through the chaos and the problems facing U.S. nuclear plants.
In the wake of Japan’s nuclear crisis, The Daily Beast combs the archives for the most essential long-form pieces on the promise and tragedy of atomic energy, in this special edition of our weekly Longreads column.
Ron Fountain knows what the Japanese nuke plant workers are going through. He’s been there. Fountain talks to Tony Dokoupil about how he escaped the Three Mile Island disaster alive.
As Japan races to prevent a nuclear catastrophe, Josh Dzieza asks MIT professor Ron Ballinger and Columbia's David Brenner about partial and full meltdowns, hydrogen blasts, and windblown radiation. Plus, full coverage of Japan's crisis.