Nuclear issues

Nuclear fuel and radioactive waste remains lethal for centuries to come and the world has yet to discover safe ways to store it. Bellona focuses on nuclear energy and its pitfalls. It also follows the progress of Cold War legacy nuclear remediation.

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Nuclear issues

fukushima_no_2_esplosion (Ingress image)

March 15, 2011 Nuclear Meltdown in Japan

Workers evacuate Fukushima Daiichi’s imperiled reactors — all six of the plant’s units suffering coolant failures as radiation levels rise and spread

As all but essential workers have been pulled from battling the rising temperatures at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant’s…

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March 15, 2011 Nuclear Meltdown in Japan

Bellona’s Nikitin: After Fukushima, going ahead with floating nukes will be suicidal for Russia

Alexander Nikitin, nuclear and radiation safety expert and chairman of Bellona’s St. Petersburg-based branch, the Environmental Rights Centre Bellona, comments…

Fukushima statement (Ingress image)

March 15, 2011 Nuclear Meltdown in Japan

Bellona’s statement on the crisis at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant

The alarming developments at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, where efforts are ongoing to quell the overheated reactor cores and…

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March 15, 2011 Nuclear Meltdown in Japan

COMMENT: Official Russia downplays nuclear power’s dangers as Fukushima’s ongoing crisis proves otherwise

MOSCOW — What should be of concern to a country’s government when a neighbouring nation is grappling with an unprecedented…

Fukushina arial (Ingress image)

March 14, 2011 Nuclear Meltdown in Japan

UPDATE: Fuel rods at Fukushima Daiichi No2 reactor fully exposed as cooling efforts fail, heightening fears of full meltdown while radiation levels spike

The fuel rods in the No 2 reactor at a quake-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant located 240 kilometres north…