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Japan: how will Fukushima crisis affect world's nuclear future?
What are the implications for nuclear power from the crisis in Japan? Jon Snow looks at the future.
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As plutonium radiation is discovered outside Japan’s Fukushima plant, Channel 4 News explains the long-term health risks of the fallout for generations to come.
Workers at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant have been evacuated after radioactivity in the water at reactor number 2 increased above the the usual limit. Radiation levels in Tokyo remain normal.
Newly released aerial footage from the day of Japan’s devastating earthquake and tsunami, shows both the immediate damage to the Fukushima nuclear plant and the massive tsunami wave heading inshore.
As Japanese engineers appear to make progress controlling the world’s worst nuclear crisis for 25 years, a nuclear expert tells Channel 4 News the plant may need to be encased in concrete.
Watch video of the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant, filmed by military helicopters dumping water on it, as a nuclear expert tells Channel 4 News elements of the response are “shambolic”.
Science Correspondent Tom Clarke considers the far greater danger to human health if it transpires that nuclear fuel in storage pools at the stricken Japanese plant has undergone fission.
What are the implications for nuclear power from the crisis in Japan? Jon Snow looks at the future.
Dangerous levels of radiation have leaked into the atmosphere after a third reactor exploded. Channel 4 News speaks to the man in charge of nuclear regulation during the Three Mile Island disaster.
The nuclear crisis at Fukushima plant in Japan could lead to a long overdue re-think on nuclear power, experts tell Channel 4 News, as Germany moves to close all of its pre-1980 nuclear facilities.
Another explosion hits Fukushima nuclear plant, damaged in Friday’s earthquake and tsunami. Many are frightened – but this is not another Chernobyl, as Science Correspondent Tom Clarke explains.
In a nation synonymous with the apocalyptic scenes in Hiroshima and Nagasaki the radioactive crisis at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant could become a defining moment for the nuclear industry.
Japanese authorities say that the Fukushima reactor is still safe and the radiation leak has been low – but the crisis is far from over as the exclusion zone widens around the nuclear plant.
Japan remembers the thousands who were killed in an earthquake and tsunami five years ago that led to the world’s worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.
Hundreds of flights are cancelled and hundreds of thousands are urged to evacuate, as a powerful typhoon hits south west Japan.
Five people die and 17 others are injured in an explosion at a chemicals plant in Japan.