RUSSIA SAYS 'SATELLITE' COULD HAVE CAUSED RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION

Russian scientists on Friday said radioactive pollution detected in Europe in September was not linked to one of the country's nuclear facilities and specu... READ MORE›

RUSSIAN COMMISSION TO BEGIN PROBE INTO REPORTED RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION

A Russian scientific commission will investigate reports of radioactive pollution almost 1,000 times above normal levels in the southern Urals, state nucle... READ MORE›

RUSSIA OPENS COMMISSION INTO 'NUCLEAR INCIDENT' REPORT

Nuclear scientists have created a commission to discover the origin of ruthenium-106, Rosatom said in a statement, also released by the country's Nuclear Safety Institute... READ MORE›

CAMPAIGNERS PIN HOPES ON PROSECUTOR OVER FINDING SOURCE OF EUROPE'S RADIOACTIVE CLOUD

A potential prosecutor's probe is likely to offer the best chance of finding out the source of a radioactive cloud that spread over Europe, campaigners... READ MORE›

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FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR REACTOR RADIATION AT HIGHEST LEVEL SINCE 2011 MELTDOWN

The one-metre-wide hole was probably created by nuclear fuel that melted and then penetrated the vessel after the tsunami knocked out Fukushima Daiichi's back-up cooling system... READ MORE›

A RADIOACTIVE CLOUD WAFTS OVER EUROPE WITH RUSSIA AS CHIEF SUSPECT

German and French nuclear security agencies concluded that the pollution had not threatened the health of Europeans or the environment in which they live... READ MORE›

NUCLEAR ACCIDENT SENDS 'HARMLESS' RADIOACTIVE CLOUD OVER EUROPE

There has been no impact on human health or the environment in Europe, it said... READ MORE›

ALL TSUNAMI ALERTS LIFTED AFTER 7.4 QUAKE ROCKS NORTHERN JAPAN

Japan lifted all tsunami alerts after a magnitude 7.4 earthquake off the coast of Fukushima, home to the nuclear power plant crippled in the March 2011 triple disaster... READ MORE›

'TAKE COVER' EMERGENCY DECLARED AT HANFORD NUCLEAR RESERVATION IN WASHINGTON STATE

Near where two tunnels join together there is a six-metre by six-metre cave-in, said a Hanford joint information centre spokesperson... READ MORE›

EXPLOSION AT EDF'S FLAMANVILLE NUCLEAR PLANT IN NORTHERN FRANCE

Nuclear power provides four-fifths of France's electricity generation, but much of the country's ageing nuclear fleet is expected to close in the 2030s... READ MORE›

LAW CHANGED SO NUCLEAR WASTE DUMPS CAN BE FORCED ON LOCAL COMMUNITIES

Friends of the Earth's planning advisor, Naomi Luhde-Thompson, said Communities will be rightly concerned about any attempts to foist a radioactive waste dump on them... READ MORE›

ROBOT FINDS POSSIBLE MELTED NUCLEAR FUEL

An underwater robot spotted the lava-like rocks inside a reactor of Japan's destroyed nuclear plant... READ MORE›

THAT 'HARMLESS' RADIOACTIVE CLOUD OVER EUROPE DID COME FROM RUSSIA AFTER ALL

BERLIN -- Remember that harmless radioactive cloud that mysteriously drifted across Europe back in September?... READ MORE›

RADIOACTIVE CLOUD THAT COVERED EUROPE MIGHT BE FROM RUSSIA. DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT THOUGH.

A city near the Ural Mountains in Russia, where the French believe a cloud of radioactive particles was released in September... READ MORE›

'FUKUSHIMA CATASTROPHE ONGOING: LEAKAGE ON A DAILY BASIS'

One of the ones is the high radioactive waste storage pools that aren't even inside radiological containment... READ MORE›

CAMERAS REVEAL THE SECRET LIVES OF CHERNOBYL'S WILDLIFE

Commenting on the herds of Przewalski's horses, Dr Wood observed They seem to have adapted quite well to life within the zone... READ MORE›

BOMB-GRADE URANIUM SHIPMENTS THROUGH ONTARIO PROMPT OUTCRY

Weapons-grade nuclear waste shipments to U.S. prompt outcry... READ MORE›

ROGUE SUN COULD WIPE OUT LIFE ON EARTH

Still, falling water levels in the storage pool caused anxiety that the fuel rods within could be exposed to the atmosphere... READ MORE›

ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT PLANT WHERE WORKERS ARE TAKING COVER

Developed in 1943 as a nuclear reactor and processing plant, Hanford was once home to the first large-scale plutonium production reactor in the world... READ MORE›

TIME LAPSE COLOSSAL CHERNOBYL SHELTER SLIDES INTO PLACE

"Radioactive dust inside the structure is being blown out through the cracks," Sergiy Paskevych of Ukraine's Institute of Nuclear Power Plant Safety Problems told AFP... READ MORE›

Still, falling water levels in the storage pool caused anxiety that the fuel rods within could be exposed to the atmosphere... READ MORE›

FUKUSHIMA RESIDENTS TORN OVER NUCLEAR WASTE STORAGE PLAN

Japan has since allocated more than 15 billion to an unprecedented project to lower radiation in towns around the plant, such as Okuma... READ MORE›

HOW IS FUKUSHIMA'S CLEANUP GOING FIVE YEARS AFTER ITS MELTDOWN? NOT SO WELL.

Read more Radioactive water from nuclear plant found leaking into sea Today's coverage from Post correspondents around the world... READ MORE›

RUSSIA CONFIRMS SPIKE IN RADIOACTIVITY AFTER NUCLEAR ACCIDENT CLAIMS

Mayak accounts for half of Russian exports of radioactive isotopes... READ MORE›

FIVE YEARS ON, CLEANUP OF FUKUSHIMA'S REACTORS REMAINS A DISTANT GOAL

Workers at the fukushima daiichi nuclear plant, five years on - in pictures... READ MORE›

HARMLESS RADIOACTIVE CLOUD FLOATING OVER EUROPE 'CAME FROM RUSSIA'

An innocuous cloud of Radioactive pollution that passed over Europe in September and October 2017 likely came from a nuclear facility in Russia or Kazakhstan,... READ MORE›

FUKUSHIMA: JAPAN ENDS EVACUATION OF NARAHA AS 'RADIATION AT SAFE LEVEL'

The towns 7,400 residents are allowed to return to their homes after the four-year-old evacuation order was lifted on Saturday... READ MORE›

EUROPE FACES EUR253BN NUCLEAR WASTE BILL

But no solution has yet been found for the long-term storage of radioactive waste... READ MORE›

AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES CHALLENGE SCOTTISH NUCLEAR WASTE TRANSFERS

Scottish government policy allows for the substitution of nuclear waste with a radiologically equivalent amount of materials from Sellafield in Cumbria, northern England... READ MORE›

INQUIRY BACKS PLAN TO STORE WORLD'S NUCLEAR WASTE IN OUTBACK AUSTRALIA

Draft findings of royal commission in South Australia back nuclear fuel storage and expanded uranium mining, but rule out nuclear energy industry... READ MORE›

ST. LOUIS GIRDS FOR 'CATASTROPHIC EVENT' SHOULD UNDERGROUND FIRE BURNING SINCE '10 GET NEAR COLD WAR NUKE WASTE CACHE

Louis-area landfill lurk two things that should never meet a slow-burning fire and a cache of Cold War-era nuclear waste separated by no more than 1 200 feet... READ MORE›

MOMENT OF TRUTH NEARS FOR NUCLEAR WASTE TIME BOMB

Across the Baltic Sea, Sweden is working on a similar project at Oskarshamn... READ MORE›

IRAN NUCLEAR TALKS 'VIRTUALLY STALLED', DEADLINE MAY BE MISSED

Iran denies any ambition to develop nuclear weapons and says its program is for generating electricity and other peaceful purposes... READ MORE›

GREAT ESCAPES: THE STRANGE RISE OF LIVE-ACTION QUEST GAMES IN RUSSIA

Room escape games like this one have grown increasingly popular in Russia over the last year... READ MORE›