Fukushima Site

The beginning of the discharge of around 540 Olympic swimming pools' worth of water into the Pacific over several decades is a big step in decommissioning the still highly dangerous site 12 years after one of the world's worst nuclear accidents.

Spectators will be allowed to watch the flame pass, but will be required to wear masks, avoid crowding and only attend segments of the torch relay near their home.

The Olympic torch relay, due to begin Thursday from a symbolic site in Fukushima, will proceed as scheduled but organisers said they would re-assess in the coming days.

India is soon expected to inform Russia of its choice for a second nuclear power plant site, a senior official involved in the project said today. This would be the second site after the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu

Radiation from Japan's 2011 nuclear disaster has spread off North American shores and contamination is increasing at previously identified sites, although levels are still too low to threaten human or ocean life, scientists said on Thursday.

A worker at Japan's wrecked nuclear power plant died after falling into a water storage tank, the latest in a growing number of accidents at the site still struggling to clean up the mess from the 2011 Fukushima disaster.

Seismologists said an earthquake that struck near Japan's shuttered Fukushima nuclear site early on Saturday was an aftershock of the tremor that sparked 2011's deadly tsunami, and warned of more to come.

The Indian Department of Atomic Energy has categorically denied the occurrence of any blasts or deaths at the Kudankulam nuclear plant site in southern India. Rumours are travelling faster than radiation, remarked an analyst.

Japan said radiation levels in spinach and milk from farms near its tsunami-crippled nuclear complex exceeded government safety limits, as emergency teams scrambled Saturday to restore power to the plant so it could cool dangerously overheated fuel.Firefighters also pumped tons of water directly from the ocean into one of the most troubled areas of...

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) warned Japan two years ago that a strong earthquake could pose a "serious problem" for its nuclear power stations, Britain's Daily Telegraph reported.An IAEA expert expressed concern that the Japanese reactors were only designed to withstand magnitude 7.0 tremors, according to a December 2008 US diploma...

The beginning of the discharge of around 540 Olympic swimming pools' worth of water into the Pacific over several decades is a big step in decommissioning the still highly dangerous site 12 years after one of the world's worst nuclear accidents.

Spectators will be allowed to watch the flame pass, but will be required to wear masks, avoid crowding and only attend segments of the torch relay near their home.

The Olympic torch relay, due to begin Thursday from a symbolic site in Fukushima, will proceed as scheduled but organisers said they would re-assess in the coming days.

India is soon expected to inform Russia of its choice for a second nuclear power plant site, a senior official involved in the project said today. This would be the second site after the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu

Radiation from Japan's 2011 nuclear disaster has spread off North American shores and contamination is increasing at previously identified sites, although levels are still too low to threaten human or ocean life, scientists said on Thursday.

A worker at Japan's wrecked nuclear power plant died after falling into a water storage tank, the latest in a growing number of accidents at the site still struggling to clean up the mess from the 2011 Fukushima disaster.

Seismologists said an earthquake that struck near Japan's shuttered Fukushima nuclear site early on Saturday was an aftershock of the tremor that sparked 2011's deadly tsunami, and warned of more to come.

The Indian Department of Atomic Energy has categorically denied the occurrence of any blasts or deaths at the Kudankulam nuclear plant site in southern India. Rumours are travelling faster than radiation, remarked an analyst.

Japan said radiation levels in spinach and milk from farms near its tsunami-crippled nuclear complex exceeded government safety limits, as emergency teams scrambled Saturday to restore power to the plant so it could cool dangerously overheated fuel.Firefighters also pumped tons of water directly from the ocean into one of the most troubled areas of...

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) warned Japan two years ago that a strong earthquake could pose a "serious problem" for its nuclear power stations, Britain's Daily Telegraph reported.An IAEA expert expressed concern that the Japanese reactors were only designed to withstand magnitude 7.0 tremors, according to a December 2008 US diploma...