# Chernobyl

All time

Japan probes alleged cover-up at nuclear plant

It’s claimed workers were forced to underreport the amount of radiation they were exposed to so they could stay on the job longer.

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Jul 22nd 2012, 3:01 PM

# Chernobyl

26th anniversary of Chernobyl disaster marked in Ukraine

People lay flowers and lit candles to mark the occasion. Ukraine’s president vowed today that his country is committed to building a new, safer shelter over the damaged Chernobyl reactor.

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Apr 26th 2012, 12:34 PM

# Remembered

In pictures: an amazing return to Chernobyl

Incredible images of the “ground zero” of the 1986 accident.

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Apr 22nd 2012, 6:00 PM

# Japan

Adi Roche in Fukushima: Only way to secure nuclear plants is to close them down

“If the atomic world has nine lives, five of them have already been used” – the Chernobyl Children International founder is in Japan for the first anniversary of the 11 March 2011 disaster.

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Mar 11th 2012, 5:54 PM

# Disaster

Ex-PM: Japan was unprepared for nuclear crisis

The former Prime Minister acknowledged there were flaws in how authorities handled the Fukushima crisis last year.

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Feb 17th 2012, 1:03 PM

# Review 2011

It wasn't all bad: 13 'good news' stories from 2011

The nicer side of the news…

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Dec 25th 2011, 4:00 PM

Voices

Column: ‘The very mention of nuclear power sends people into a flutter’

After Fukushima, nuclear power has become a bogeyman – but we shouldn’t dismiss it out of hand, writes physicist David Robert Grimes.

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Aug 24th 2011, 7:47 AM

# Fukushima

Fatal radiation levels at Fukushima now 'off the scale'

Levels of radiation in some areas of the plant are so high they would be lethal within one hour.

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Aug 2nd 2011, 10:28 AM

# Chernobyl

Slideshow: The world remembers Chernobyl

People from Ukraine to South Korea gathered today at memorial services to mark the 25th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear accident.

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Apr 26th 2011, 8:30 PM

# Daily Fix

The Daily Fix: Tuesday

Our collection of the day’s news, developments and random tidbits.

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Apr 26th 2011, 7:49 PM

# Chernobyl

What happened inside Chernobyl's Reactor 4 on 26 April 1986?

Today marks the 25th anniversary of the meltdown at Chernobyl, which contaminated some 150,000 sq km of land.

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Apr 26th 2011, 10:46 AM

Good Morning

The 9 at 9 Nine things to know: Irish toddler to undergo pioneering surgery; Afghan police search for over 450 escaped prisoners; and a ‘human canonball’ stuntman has been killed in Kent.

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Apr 26th 2011, 8:23 AM

LIVE

Nuclear energy needs a 'global rethink': UN chief

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said that the approach to nuclear power needs to be reconsidered following the disasters at Chernobyl and Fukushima.

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Apr 20th 2011, 12:20 PM

Evening Wrap

The 5 at 5 5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock.

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Apr 4th 2011, 4:50 PM

# Chernobyl

Greenpeace says Chernobyl food radiation persists

A quarter of a century after the world’s worst nuclear accident in Ukraine, food there is still contaminated by unacceptably high levels of radiation, according to the environmental group.

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Apr 4th 2011, 3:34 PM

# Japan

Japan raises nuclear crisis rating to Level 5

The raising of the incident’s rating puts the crisis on a par with the Three Mile Island incident in the United States.

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Mar 18th 2011, 4:53 PM

# Nuclear Power

Expert calls on government to consider nuclear power

A professor of applied physics has championed the case of Ireland turning towards nuclear energy, saying that it offers a cheap and clean source of fuel.

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Mar 10th 2011, 2:21 PM

# Nuclear Threat

Fears wildfires could push radioactive waste towards Moscow

Russian rescue workers battle to control the flames spreading towards the Chernobyl nuclear fallout zone.

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Aug 12th 2010, 5:24 PM

# Russia

Putin takes to the skies to tackle wildfires

Russia’s prime minister co-pilots a plane and puts out two fires – which could be turning radioactive.

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Aug 11th 2010, 10:54 AM