Nuclear Disaster

Chernobyl's toxic nuclear site presents a unique chance to protect biodiversity

Since the disaster, elk, wolves and the stocky endangered breed of Przewalski's wild horses native to Asia.

Japan reopens beaches in regions devastated by the Fukushima nuclear disaster

One of the reopened waterfronts is Haragamaobama beach near the crippled Daiichi nuclear plant.

Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant can withstand Fukushima-like accident, claims Russian official

Rosatom state nuclear corporation, the Indo-Russia nuclear cooperation, will construct six units of VVER-1000 light-water reactors at Kudankulam

Fukushima disaster: Three ex-TEPCO executives charged with negligence

Three former Japanese utility executives were formally charged on Monday with negligence in the Fukushima nuclear disaster, becoming the first officials from the company to face a criminal trial.

Nuclear leak aftermath: Deformed daisies spotted at Fukushima disaster site in Japan

Four years after the disaster in Japan's Fukushima Nuclear Plant, photos doing the rounds of social media show mutant daisies growing at the site, an effect of the disaster.

Radiation from Japan's Fukushima disaster newly detected off Canada's coast

Radiation from Japan's 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster has for the first time been detected along a North American shoreline, though at levels too low to pose a significant threat to human or marine life, scientists said on Monday.

Reopening of Fukushima nuclear plant stalled by paperwork

The delays are biting the utilities which are having to spend billions of dollars to import fossil fuels to keep power on, pushing Japan into a record trade deficit and risking undermining Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's polices to end years of stagnant growth.

Fukushima disaster: Japan incapable of decommissioning plant

The cloud over Japan's capacity to get the decades-long job done has further undermined the image of the nuclear industry with the public.

Hundreds of Japanese claim compensation after Fukushima nuclear diaster

Nearly 700 residents from the Hippo district of Miyagi prefecture, just north of Fukushima, are demanding equal compensation to the residents of Fukushima prefecture where the accident occurred.

Anti nuclear protests mark second anniversary of Japan tsunami

The nuclear meltdown at Tokyo Electric Power's Fukushima Daiichi plant forced 160,000 people from their homes and many of them will never return.