EditorialA digital sign displays the detected radiation level in real time on the volcanic island of Lanyu, traditional home of the indigenous Tao tribe and location of a nuclear waste dump that has operated since the early 1980s, in Taiwan, Aug 18, 2022. (Lam Yik Fei/The New York Times)
EditorialEvacuees at a temporary shelter in Minamisoma, Japan, on March 18, 2011, after a tsunami led to a meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant. The area became a nuclear exclusion zone because of the continuing dangers of radiation. (Ko Sasaki/The New York Times)
EditorialA heat pump made by Vaillant, in a special room where the German company tests the device's electromagnetic radiation, in Remscheid, Germany, Sept. 16, 2022. (Patrick Junker/The New York Times)
EditorialA heat pump made by Vaillant, in a special room where the German company tests the device's electromagnetic radiation, in Remscheid, Germany, Sept. 16, 2022. (Patrick Junker/The New York Times)
EditorialThe driveway of Rose Marie Santangelo, who drowned in her home during Hurricane Ian near Naples, Fla., Oct. 18, 2022. (Zack Wittman/The New York Times)
EditorialUkrainian emergency rescue teams work during a nuclear disaster drill in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine on Aug. 17, 2022. (David Guttenfelder/The New York Times)
Editorial Ukrainian emergency rescue teams, wearing suits to protect against radiation, practice a nuclear disaster drill in a parking lot, which has been used for months as a transit and registration point for Ukrainian evacuees fleeing Russian occupied territory, in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine on Aug. 17, 2022. (David Guttenfelder/The New York Times)
EditorialAcross the Dnieper River, the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant can be seen from Ukrainian-held territory near Nikopol on July 29, 2022. (David Guttenfelder/The New York Times)
EditorialRachel Pek, a research assistant, pulls “Smarty,” a device that tracks radiation from the atmosphere, surfaces and wind, during a survey in Singapore, July 5, 2022. (Gabriela Bhaskar/The New York Times)