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MASSIVE CYBERATTACK HITS EUROPE US WITH WIDESPREAD RANSOM DEMANDS


The attack was confirmed to have spread beyond Europe when U.S. drugmaker Merck, based in New Jersey, said its systems had also been compromised... READ MORE

28th June, 2017 51

HALF OF AMERICA'S NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS SEEN AS MONEY LOSERS


Nuclear power plants are getting paid 20 to 30 a megawatt-hour for their electricity, Nicholas Steckler, an analyst at Bloomberg New Energy Finance, said in a report Wednesday... READ MORE

14th June, 2017 1745

THREE MILE ISLAND TO CLOSE 40 YEARS AFTER NUCLEAR ACCIDENT


In 1994 a protester drove through the gates of Three Mile Island, causing the company to spend more than 1m ?777,000 on security upgrades... READ MORE

30th May, 2017 724

SOUTH AFRICA TO SIGN MORE TRANSPARENT NUCLEAR POWER AGREEMENTS WITH FIVE FOREIGN COUNTRIES


State energy firm Eskom says nuclear power should play a role in South Africa's energy mix and will help reduce reliance on coal... READ MORE

14th May, 2017 14

DOCUMENTARY RENEWS DEBATE OVER RENEWABLE ENERGY


What it says is that nuclear power is uneconomical and impractical, the two charges usually aimed at renewable energy in Japan... READ MORE

23rd April, 2017 315

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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

3rd February, 2017 74612

JAPANESE NUCLEAR PLANT JUST RECORDED AN ASTRONOMICAL RADIATION LEVEL. SHOULD WE BE WORRIED?


A worker takes notes in front of storage tanks for radioactive water at Tokyo Electric Power Co's TEPCO tsunami-crippled FukushimaDaiichi nuclear power plant in Japan... READ MORE

8th February, 2017 19069

DYING ROBOTS AND FAILING HOPE: FUKUSHIMA CLEAN-UP FALTERS SIX YEARS AFTER TSUNAMI


Naohiro Masuda, the president of Fukushima Daiichi's decommissioning arm, says he wants another probe sent in before deciding on how to remove the melted fuel... READ MORE

10th March, 2017 11829

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

9th February, 2017 3942

JAPAN, INDIA SIGN AGREEMENT ON CIVIL NUCLEAR POWER


Energy-hungry India wants to increase nuclear power generation to support its strong economic growth... READ MORE

12th November, 2016 3231

FUKUSHIMA DISASTER EVACUEES TOLD TO RETURN TO ABANDONED HOMES


People who fled after March 2011 nuclear meltdown face losing housing subsidies if they do not go back, despite radiation fears... READ MORE

10th March, 2017 2761

JAPANESE ANTI-NUCLEAR CANDIDATE WINS ELECTION AT SITE OF WORLD'S BIGGEST ATOMIC POWER STATION


The election became a litmus test for nuclear safety and put Abe's energy policy and Tepco's handling of Fukushima back under the spotlight... READ MORE

17th October, 2016 1840

SCRAPPING HINKLEY FOR RENEWABLE ALTERNATIVES WILL SAVE 'TENS OF BILLIONS'


A final investment decision by EDF on the nuclear power plant's expansion is expected in May... READ MORE

5th April, 2016 1499

NEW BLOW FOR HINKLEY POINT CONTRACTOR EDF AFTER FRENCH SAFETY CHECKS


Safety issues force many reactors offline with warnings of power cuts across France, higher energy prices and a rise in emissions... READ MORE

3rd December, 2016 1231

FUKUSHIMA KEEPS FIGHTING RADIOACTIVE TIDE 5 YEARS AFTER DISASTER


Mr. Ikeda's last job at Fukushima involved the destruction of used protective coveralls... READ MORE

11th March, 2016 1130

UK APPROVES CHINESE-BACKED NUCLEAR PLANT, SETS TIGHTER CONTROLS


The project offers an insight into how Britain could conduct relations with the world in a post-Brexit era... READ MORE

15th September, 2016 819

NUCLEAR POWER PLANT WORKERS TO JOIN STRIKE


Workers at French nuclear power stations are due to join a strike over labour reforms that has already paralysed oil refineries and triggered fuel shortages... READ MORE

26th May, 2016 792

CHINA TO TAKE ONE-THIRD STAKE IN A?24BN HINKLEY NUCLEAR POWER STATION


China to take one-third stake in A?24bn Hinkley nuclear power station... READ MORE

20th October, 2015 727

INSPECTORS FIND SAFETY IRREGULARITIES AT CREUSOT NUCLEAR FORGE IN FRANCE


Evidence of doctored paperwork found at Areva-owned forge, which has made parts for Hinkley Point... READ MORE

25th March, 2017 674

CHINAS NUCLEAR VISION COLLIDES WITH VILLAGERS FEARS


By 2030, officials want nuclear power to generate up to 10 percent of China's electricity... READ MORE

21st November, 2015 671

JAPAN RESTARTS FIRST NUCLEAR REACTOR SINCE FUKUSHIMA DISASTER


Sendai nuclear plant in southern Japan is first to begin operation since 2011 Fukushima meltdowns, despite anti-nuclear protests... READ MORE

10th August, 2015 642

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

29th November, 2016 611

JAPAN PAYS WORKER WHO GOT CANCER AFTER FUKUSHIMA


The ministry said the worker was exposed to 15.7 millisieverts of radiation during his 14 months at Fukushima Daiichi... READ MORE

20th October, 2015 568

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

9th March, 2015 540

CYBER-ATTACKS ON SOUTH KOREAN NUCLEAR POWER OPERATOR CONTINUE


We cannot let cyber-attacks stop nuclear power operation, Cho told a news briefing... READ MORE

29th December, 2014 530

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

11th February, 2016 504

WATCH AS WORLD'S LARGEST MOBILE STRUCTURE SLIDES INTO PLACE OVER SITE OF CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR DISASTER


EBRD Novarka In the aftermath of the accident at Chernobyl's nuclear power plant in 1986, Soviet workers erected a concrete and steel sarcophagus over the damaged reactor... READ MORE

30th November, 2016 489

TRYING TO BRIBE PUBLIC TO ACCEPT FRACKING WON'T WORK, SAY CAMPAIGNERS


Following hard on the heels of the Hinkley fiasco, this misguided policy to encourage fracking demonstrates again that the government has no strategic energy policy... READ MORE

8th August, 2016 476

LEADING SCIENTISTS SAY THE WORLD MUST EMBRACE NUCLEAR POWER TO SAVE THE PLANET FROM CLIMATE CHANGE


Nuclear power can be done safely, and with a relatively small environmental footprint, said Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington DC... READ MORE

3rd December, 2015 469

CHINA TO DEVELOP FLOATING NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS


Beijing may have come up with a solution floating nuclear power plants... READ MORE

23rd April, 2016 445

FORMER PRIME MINISTER KOIZUMI REITERATES CALL FOR JAPAN'S COMPLETE EXIT FROM NUCLEAR POWER


Japan can become a much better country with zero nuclear power plants, harnessing natural energy, Koizumi said... READ MORE

12th March, 2017 438

ENVIRONMENT WATCHDOG URGES BETTER TRACKING OF NUCLEAR PLANT INSPECTIONS


A federal watchdog has issued an urgent call to the country's nuclear regulator to tighten up inspections of Canada's nuclear power plants... READ MORE

4th October, 2016 390

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

11th March, 2016 359

SOUTH AUSTRALIA'S NUCLEAR TRUE BELIEVERS HAVE GOT THEIR INQUIRY. IT CAN'T BECOME FREE PR


But opening the door to talk of uranium enrichment, domestic nuclear power and international nuclear waste is a major escalation in radioactive rhetoric... READ MORE

10th February, 2015 298

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

5th September, 2015 290


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