Essay: Decontaminating Fukushima – have the billions spent been worth it?
In an article first published on The Conversation, JIM SMITH, professor of environmental science at the University of Portsmouth, looks at how effective decontamination efforts have been in th wake of the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan…
Ukraine says Russia plans to simulate accident at nuclear power plant; Kyiv says two killed as Dnipro clinic hit in missile attack
Reuters Ukraine’s defence ministry on Friday said Russia was planning to simulate a major accident at a nuclear power station controlled by pro-Moscow forces to try to thwart a long-planned Ukrainian counter-offensive to retake territory occupied by Russia. The Zaporizhzhia plant, which lies in an area of Russian-occupied southern Ukraine, is Europe’s biggest nuclear power […]
Russia seizes Ukraine nuclear power plant as forces lay siege to cities
Lviv/Kyiv, UkraineReuters Russian forces in Ukraine seized Europe’s biggest nuclear power plant on Friday in an assault that caused alarm around the world and that Washington said had risked catastrophe, although officials said later that the facility was now safe. Fighting also raged elsewhere in Ukraine as troops besieged and bombarded several cities in the […]