Essay: Nukes in space – a bad idea in the 1960s and an even worse one now
Researcher MICHAEL MULVIHILL explains why efforts to ensure nuclear weapons aren’t used space need to be supported…
Fukushima water release stokes fresh fears for fisherman
Shinchimachi, Japan Reuters A chilly dawn paints the sky magenta and purple as Japanese fisherman Haruo Ono unloads his catch of flounder, crab and sea bass from his boat at the small port of Shinchimachi. A third-generation fisherman, Ono, 71, has been putting to sea for half a century from Shinchimachi, 55 kilometres north of […]
Nuclear wasteland selfies draw ire as tourist flock to Chernobyl
Tbilisi, GeorgiaThomson Reuters Foundation A spate of selfie-taking tourists at Chernobyl – one wearing little more than her underwear – in the wake of a hit TV series on the world’s worst nuclear disaster has sparked anger, with the show’s author urging more respect for the dead. The nuclear plant and the abandoned town that neighbours it […]