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VIENNA, 14 June (UN Information Service) – The United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) is to update its 2013 report on the levels and effects of radiation exposure due to the nuclear accident following the great east-Japan earthquake and tsunami. The Scientific Committee has today concluded its 65th session, held at …
Tokyo, 11 March 2016 – Greenpeace today commemorates the fifth anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, renewing calls for those responsible to be held to account for the ongoing crisis. The tragic events of that day led to the meltdown of three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. “There is no …
Moscow, Kiev, 9 March 2016 – Survivors of Chernobyl are still eating food with radioactive contamination above permissible limits thirty years after the nuclear catastrophe forced hundreds of thousands of people from their homes. The Greenpeace International report, Nuclear Scars: The lasting legacy of Chernobyl and Fukushima exposes the impact that nuclear accidents in Fukushima …
Tokyo, 4 March 2016 – The environmental impacts of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster will last decades to centuries, warns a new Greenpeace Japan report. Man-made, long-lived radioactive elements are absorbed into the living tissues of plants and animals and recycled through food webs, and carried downstream to the Pacific Ocean by typhoons, snowmelt, and …
Tokyo, 25 February 2016 – Greenpeace Japan today announced it is conducting an underwater investigation into radiation contamination from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean. The survey will be conducted from a Japanese research vessel using a one of a kind Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV), fitted with sensitive gamma radiation spectrometer and …
A national team is being assembled to respond to nuclear emergencies in an effort to reinforce China’s preparedness. The group will supplement existing provincial and on-site response teams. The team is being set up by the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence (SASTIND) and the General Staff Headquarters of the People’s …
Amsterdam, August 6, 2013 – Leaking radioactive water at the Fukushima nuclear power plant has now been declared an “emergency” by Japan’s Nuclear Regulatory Authority. In response, Dr. Rianne Teule, nuclear campaigner at Greenpeace International, said: “The worsening leaks of contaminated water at the Fukushima nuclear plant prove TEPCO is incapable of dealing with the disaster. Japan’s …