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Fukushima disaster

A Japanese rat snake is fit with a GPS transmitter that will allow researchers to track its movements over the next several weeks. Photo credit: Hannah Gerke. Used with permission.

Radioactive snakes may monitor Fukushima fallout

By Susan D’Agostino | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. Credit: IAEA Imagebank via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 2.0.

Ten years after Fukushima: The experts examine lessons learned and forgotten

By Ali Ahmad, Aditi Verma, Francesca Giovannini | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

Abandoned Chernobyl village. Credit: Clay Gilliland via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 2.0

Chernobyl: A nuclear accident that changed the course of history. Then came Fukushima.

By Mariana Budjeryn | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

abandoned radioactive hearse in village of Namie outside Fukushima

Remember Fukushima: The accident is not over

By Tatsujiro Suzuki | Nuclear Energy

abandoned house in Fukushima

Nuclear accidents will happen. What do we do about them?

By Malka Older | Nuclear Energy

IAEA Experts at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant. Credit: IAEA Imagebank via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 2.0.

Fukushima 10 years later: It still could happen here

By Edwin Lyman | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

repurposed nuclear slogan outside Fukushima

Fukushima today: “I’m glad that I realized my mistake before I died.”

By Thomas A. Bass | Analysis, Personal Essay

Fukushima accident town nearby

Nuclear safety vs security: Can the two cultures be harmonized?

By Igor Khripunov | Analysis

The Rokkasho test: Has Japan learned the lessons of Fukushima?

By Tadahiro Katsuta | Uncategorized