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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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Growing health fears as plutonium discovered at Fukushima
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.
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Japan nuclear setback as radiation rises at Fukushima plant
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.
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New footage shows tsunami wave and damage to Fukushima plant
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.
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Japan: engineers closer to restoring power at Fukushima
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.
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Japan: battle to cool Fukushima as world’s alarm grows
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”.
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Fukushima: the danger of going ‘critical’
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.
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Meltdown fears at Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan
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.
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Fukushima crisis is ‘serious blow’ to nuclear power
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.
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Japan: second explosion rocks Fukushima nuclear plant
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.
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Fukushima: a nuclear station in crisis
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.
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Crisis at Fukushima nuclear plant
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.
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Russia war ‘dramatically increases’ chance of nuclear power disaster – Ukrainian Historian
Ukrainian historian Serhii Plokhy talks to us about the threat of nuclear accidents, and how Russia’s war with Ukraine has increased the chances of one happening.
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Japan marks fifth anniversary of devastating tsunami
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.
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Japan: 500,000 told to flee powerful Typhoon Neoguri
Hundreds of flights are cancelled and hundreds of thousands are urged to evacuate, as a powerful typhoon hits south west Japan.
