The government is to consider making a multi-billion pound investment in a new nuclear power station. The Business Secretary told the Commons that the government is considering sharing in the construction costs of a new plant at Wylfa in Anglesey in North Wales. There’s no decision yet on another major energy project in Wales, the…
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.
Kevan Jones resigns from the Labour frontbench in protest at the opposition of Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn to renewing the UK’s Trident nuclear deterrent. Two other MPs have also quit.
Party delegates in Scotland vote overwhelmingly against renewing the nuclear deterrent, rejecting the official line of the UK party.
Almost 30 years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, which turned the area around the plant into a no-go zone, scientists are involved in a unique experiment in how nature copes with radiation.
After 12 years of talks, it seems Iran has agreed to scale back its nuclear programme in exchange for the lifting of UN sanctions that have crippled the country’s economy.
Ukraine’s prime minister says a major forest fire that threatened to spread to the abandoned Chernobyl nuclear plant zone is under control.
Lindsey Hilsum
Unlike the US, the Iranians are not releasing fact sheets about the scale of nuclear reduction because they would rather be a little vague on the compromises they’ve made.
Lindsey Hilsum
For the Saudis, Iran – not Islamic State – is the greatest danger in the Middle East. So nuclear détente between Iran and the US will not be cost-free.
Lindsey Hilsum
The mood music coming out of Iran nuclear talks in Lausanne may be positive, but there are more variations to be played through before a harmonious finale can be achieved.
British film-maker Danny Cooke has captured these haunting scenes from the deserted city of Pripyat in Ukraine – abandoned after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986.
Lindsey Hilsum
As world powers struggle to reach a deal with Iran on its nuclear programme, Republicans in the US could prove the biggest obstacle to an agreement.
Lindsey Hilsum
Will a deal on Iran’s nuclear programme lead to rapprochement between the US and the Islamic state after 35 years of enmity?
Iran’s chief negotiator tells Jon Snow that it is actively engaging Islamic State, which “threatens UK and Iran equally”, but that US sanctions on its nuclear programme go against the spirit of talks.
No-one has died due to radiation released after the Fukushima nuclear crisis and this is unlikely to change, the UN says. But the mental health impact for the nuclear evacuees is a different story.