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Rutland in the Midlands is hit by the UK’s biggest earthquake this year, prompting a wave of jokes about the “earth moving”. But how does this seismic activity compare with other great British quakes?
British architect Garry Thomas visited Iwaki, near the damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, recently. He found a place barely reconstructed, and residents losing hope.
Alex Thomson
A notice at the train station ticket office reads: “Apologies – we will be back soon.” But in the deserted radiation hotspot of Futaba, in post-Fukushima Japan, nobody will be back soon.
Alex Thomson
As Japanese engineers struggle to manage the fallout of the nuclear disaster at Fukushima, the Japanese government struggles to solve the energy crisis that it provoked.
A 7.3 magnitude earthquake off the coast of north-eastern Japan shakes buildings as far away as Tokyo but early fears of a tsunami and devastation on the scale of the March 2011 disaster have receded.
People across Japan have prayed and stood in silence to remember the massive earthquake and tsunami that struck the nation one year ago.
Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson returns to the Japanese town of Minamisanriku to find that rebuilding from the ruins of the tsunami is not an option.
Eight months on from the devastating tsunami and earthquake which sparked a nuclear crisis in Japan, an expert tells Channel 4 News new signs of fission at the plant are “a concern”.
Nearly eight months after nuclear reactors at Fukushima melted down and exploded they are still throwing up surprises, writes Channel 4 News Science Correspondent Tom Clarke.
Amid the tumult of re-escalating eurozone crisis, the G7 meets in Marseille on Friday. Just five years ago that would have been seen as a sign for comfort. The finance ministers of the world’s seven most advanced “industrialised” (deindustrialised, surely?) nations meeting to iron out a common cooperative response to the world’s economic problems.
The eruption of an Indonesian volcano spewing lava and smoke 1,500 metres into the air is forcing panicked residents to flee.
The Department of Energy and Climate Change names eight sites it considers suitable for new nuclear power stations. Channel 4 News maps how the sites could meet Britain’s future energy demands.
Germany announces plans to shut down all its nuclear reactors by 2022, in a policy u-turn prompted by Japan’s Fukushima disaster.
Britain’s chief nuclear adviser says the country’s nuclear plants are not at risk of replicating Japan’s nuclear crisis but Greenpeace tells Channel 4 News his findings are premature.
The operator of Japan’s tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear plant have agreed to a major restructuring plan in return for government help in paying compensation to tens of thousands of people.