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- COMMENT: Sobered by Fukushima lessons, Japan revamps first-response plans, expands evac zones around nuclear power plants – but Russia takes no heed
- ANALYSIS: European radiation safety agencies detect traces of iodine-131 in air, source of leak unknown
- COMMENT: Hit by a $117 million liability verdict in Japan, Hitachi negotiates new reactor deal with Lithuania
- India has second thoughts about launching Russia-built reactor – or building new ones in the future
- Corruption: A new Russian Fukushima in the making?
- Finns demand national referenda to decide the future of nuclear projects – and possibly, national nuclear energy industry
- Ecologists critical of Rosatom’s experimental small-capacity nuke plant on the Volga, urge to abandon project
- New scram at Kola NPP’s newly re-licensed third reactor – but Rosatom still bent on pushing plant’s limit
- COMMENT: Belarus: Credits, crises, and kidnappings – Is there really room for a nuclear power plant?
- COMMENT: Radioactive dump in Moscow: A ten-year history of reckless procrastination
- April NPP chronicle – RBMK units hiccup in Russia, a bird shuts down a reactor in Ukraine
- COMMENT: Defiant of Fukushima, yet now mindful of apparent fears, Moscow revs up sales of ‘safer’ nuke energy. Would Russia at least revise stance on old reactors?
- Rosatom protest brings demands from activist that Russia’s old reactors be shut down in wake of Japanese crisis
- COMMENT: In Japan, the IAEA abandons ship, shows its helplessness, but continues to carry a PR torch for the nuclear industry
- Fukushima spent fuel crisis: What exactly are the risks — and will Russia heed the lesson?
- COMMENT: Official Russia downplays nuclear power’s dangers as Fukushima’s ongoing crisis proves otherwise
- COMMENT: Rosatom plans dangerous thermal capacity increases at Russia’s RBMK reactors of Chernobyl infamy
- Comment: The Russian ‘nuclear renaissance’ has been postponed as government cuts Rosatom investment program
- Russia’s Balakovo nuke plant hiccupping again
- Alarming scram statistics a recent plague at Russian nuclear power plants
- Michigan’s Fermi 2 reactor stopped after condenser tube leak discovered, little information on radiation dangers
- Medvedev appearance in Yekatriburg fails to clear the muddy waters on the future of the Khimki Forest
- German Greenpeace, residents protest extensions on operating licenses of country’s old nuclear power plants
- COMMENT: Energy efficiency, climate crisis, and nuclear energy: Russia’s Medvedev in Swiss Davos
- Reactor glitches become regular occurrence in Russia’s Northwest
