Japan to restart Sendai nuclear reactor after two-year hiatus in wake of...
Japan is due to switch on a nuclear reactor for the first time in nearly two years, as anti-atomic sentiment continues to run high following the 2011 Fukushima crisis.
View ArticleThe Polygon: Former Soviet Union nuclear test site on Kazakh Steppe now open...
An 18,000-square-kilometre area on the Kazakh Steppe where the Soviet Union conducted 456 nuclear tests before the site was officially closed in 1991 is now open for tours.
View Article#TalkAboutIt: Top five nuclear threats the world faces
The fear of a nuclear war has decreased dramatically over the past 25 years, but recent events have brought the threat back into public consciousness.
View ArticleKazakhstan to host IAEA nuclear fuel bank to assist non-proliferation
The International Atomic Energy Agency and Kazakhstan sign an agreement to locate the first internationally controlled bank of low-enriched uranium in the ex-Soviet nation.
View ArticleFukushima: Japan lifts evacuation order for radiation-hit Naraha town four...
Japan lifts the evacuation order for a town near the crippled Fukushima reactors in what is seen as a "pilot case" for the government's plan to resettle contaminated areas.
View ArticleJapan floods force more than 100,000 to evacuate
As torrential rains and floods in the wake of Typhoon Etau force more than 100,000 people in Japan to flee their homes, Ken Moritsugu, the Associated Press' bureau chief in Japan, discusses the country...
View ArticleJapan floods force more than 100,000 to evacuate
As torrential rains and floods in the wake of Typhoon Etau force more than 100,000 people in Japan to flee their homes, Ken Moritsugu, the Associated Press' bureau chief in Japan, discusses the country...
View ArticleJapan restarts second reactor at Sendai nuclear plant amid widespread public...
Japan restarts a second nuclear reactor on the south-western island of Kyushu after dozens of reactors were shut following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.
View ArticleFirst Fukushima worker diagnosed with radiation-linked cancer, Japanese...
A former Fukushima nuclear plant worker has been diagnosed with radiation-linked cancer, Japanese authorities say, the first such confirmation more than four years after the worst atomic accident in a...
View ArticleUN demands North Korea cease 'deeply troubling' nuclear activities
The United Nations demands North Korea cease any further nuclear activities after its claim that it has successfully tested a hydrogen bomb.
View ArticleToshiba unveils remote-control robot to dismantle Fukushima nuclear plant
An amphibious remote-control robot unveiled by Toshiba will remove spent fuel rods from Fukushima's reactor 3, where radiation levels would mean instant death for human workers.
View ArticleTemple of Doom: How do we warn the future about nuclear waste?
This week the South Australian Royal Commission released "tentative findings" recommending the state take more than 100 tonnes of high-level radioactive waste and store it in the desert for hundreds of...
View ArticleFormer TEPCO bosses indicted over handling of 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster
Three former TEPCO executives have been indicted over their handling of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, in what is the first criminal trial linked to the crisis.
View ArticleContaminated soils leave Japanese cattle producers displaced five years after...
Japanese farmers near the Fukushima nuclear power plant displaced and no longer producing prize winning wagyu beef cattle.
View ArticleThe ghosts of Fukushima
Mark Willacy witnessed the devastation caused by Japan's 2011 tsunami.
View ArticleFukushima survivors determined to rebuild new life in deserted Japanese town...
Tomoe Murao is one of a few hundred residents trying to rebuild their abandoned hometown of Nahara, Japan, after authorities there declared radiation levels low enough to return home.
View ArticleJapan's Prime Minister uses Fukushima anniversary to announce 'safe' reactors...
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reaffirms his government's commitment to nuclear power on the five-year anniversary of the Fukushima accident.
View ArticleFukushima: Five years on from nuclear meltdown locals still in the dark about...
Six kilometres from where the Fukushima nuclear disaster took place, residents in nearby Futaba say their futures are bleak with little hope of compensation.
View ArticleFukushima cleanup described by Tepco chief as 'like working in a field...
Fukushima power plant operators' recent update on the nuclear accident clean-up makes it clear there is still a long way to go to remediate the area.
View ArticleJapan marks fifth anniversary of Fukushima nuclear disaster
Ceremonies have been held across Japan to remember the lives lost five years after an earthquakes spawned a monster tsunami that killed 18,500 people and sparked a nuclear disaster.
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