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is monitoring Japan's efforts to decommission the Fukushima Daiichi plant after a 2011 earthquake-triggered tsunami killed 18,000 people and set off the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.

In August 2000, two explosions led Russian nuclear submarine Kursk to sink, claiming the lives of all 118 crew members.

So if the west does abandon Ukraine, game theory suggests that the world should expect a proliferation of nuclear powers.

as the country prepares to restart its nuclear power plants closed since the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident. As well as visiting nuclear and remediation facilities, Rafael Mariano Grossi also met ...

Tokyo (AFP) – The UN nuclear watchdog chief arrives in Japan on Tuesday for a trip that will include his first visit to storage facilities for soil contaminated in the 2011 Fukushima disaster.

"A nuclear accident can result from a direct attack on a plant, but also from power supply disruption." Grossi posted pictures of him visiting the substation alongside Energy Minister German ...

Chernobyl’s reactors are covered by an outer dome to prevent radioactive leakage after the 1986 disaster – the world’s worst civilian nuclear accident – which sent pollution spewing across ...

Members of the State Emergency Service attend nuclear disaster response drills amid shelling of Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, as Russia’s attack on Ukraine continues, in Zaporizhzhia ...

Tokyo (AFP) – The UN nuclear watchdog chief will visit storage facilities for vast quantities of soil contaminated in the 2011 Fukushima disaster for the first time this week. Japan's government ...

Sergei Karaganov said Putin should make clear to the western powers that if they continued to arm and fund Kyiv, Moscow would use nuclear weapons against Nato member states. Karaganov, a former ...