Fukushima anniversary: NSW firefighter Rob McNeil returns five years after...
Firefighter Rob McNeil recalls the mammoth task that lay ahead of Australian assistance teams dispatched to help with search and rescue efforts in the Japanese town of Minamisanriku in the wake of...
View ArticleJapan's two nuclear reactors can continue operating, court rules
A Japanese court rejects an appeal by residents against the restart of the country's only two operating nuclear reactors following the 2011 Fukushima disaster.
View ArticleChernobyl nuclear disaster marks 30-year anniversary with 'extreme tours',...
Thirty years after the world's most catastrophic nuclear accident, the home of the infamous Chernobyl nuclear reactor number four is transformed into an "extreme tourism" theme park.
View ArticleMaralinga nuclear test survivors connect with Japanese bombing survivors
Members of an Aboriginal community affected by nuclear bomb tests at Maralinga in the 1950s are connecting with nuclear bomb survivors in Japan.
View ArticleLiving in the shadows of Chernobyl
Meet the defiant people carving out a life in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, which is still deemed uninhabitable 30 years after the world's worst nuclear disaster but is also bearing witness to a...
View ArticleThe Chernobyl driver
Jimmy Ryan has become known as the Chernobyl driver for his organisation of tours of the abandoned nuclear site.
View ArticleChernobyl: How a routine test became a deadly nuclear disaster
Thirty years after a test by engineers at Chernobyl's nuclear power plant turned into one of the world's worst nuclear disasters, the effects of the radioactive explosion are still being felt.
View ArticleThe Chernobyl Driver: A tour guide's view
Jimmy Ryan has spent the past five years giving tours of Chernobyl.
View ArticleChernobyl: Australian street artist Guido van Helton paints mural in disaster...
Brisbane artist Guido van Helton paints a mural of a doctor inside a disused reactor to mark the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster.
View ArticleChernobyl: Ukrainians remember victims of nuclear disaster 30 years on
Ukraine holds memorial services to mark the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster which permanently poisoned swathes of eastern Europe and highlighted the shortcomings of the secretive...
View ArticleRevisiting Fukushima: Five years on
Foreign Correspondent returns to the scene of Japan's 2011 nuclear meltdown and discovers ghost towns left in the wake of the devastating tsunami.
View ArticleFukushima clean-up chief still hunting for 600 tonnes of melted radioactive fuel
The operator of the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant reveals 600 tonnes of reactor fuel melted during the disaster, with the exact location of the highly radioactive blobs remaining a mystery.
View ArticleJapan reactor restarts, despite protests, boosting Tokyo's nuclear push
Japan restarts nuclear reactor despite a court challenge by local residents, in a boost for Tokyo's post-Fukushima push to bring back atomic power.
View ArticleAboriginal man's story of Maralinga nuclear bomb survival told with virtual...
Nyarri Morgan's first contact with whites came when he witnessed a nuclear bomb explosion at the British testing site at Maralinga, South Australia.
View ArticleJapan earthquake: Fukushima nuclear plant remains the gap in a wall of...
Japan has the most sophisticated earthquake detection network in the world, but warnings are only effective if people heed them, writes Mark Willacy.
View ArticleTEPCO: Fukushima nuclear clean-up, compensation costs nearly double previous...
The total cost of decommissioning the stricken nuclear power plant at Fukushima and providing compensation to victims nearly doubles, with a new estimate placing the cost at $250 billion.
View ArticleFukushima: Parents' long search for children swept away in Japan's 2011 tsunami
Naomi Hiratsuka is just one of the indomitable parents left behind when their children were swept away in the 2011 Fukushima tsunami.
View ArticleRadioactive boars eating false truffles could cause supply issues in Czech...
A cold, snowy winter is forcing wild boars to feed on false truffles in the Czech Republic, which have absorbed high levels of a radioactive isotope as a result of the Chernobyl disaster.
View ArticleWild boars offer challenge for returning residents in radiation-hit Fukushima
Beyond radiation risks, an unexpected nuisance looms for residents returning to Japan's towns vacated after the Fukushima nuclear crisis six years ago — wild boars.
View ArticleCold War-era kits on surviving nuclear fallout unearthed by historian
In the early 1960s, the threat of a nuclear attack was so real that boxes of medical supplies were distributed across America, intended to aid survivors of a blast.
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