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Sweden closes nuclear plants over safety fears

Sweden closes nuclear plants over safety fears

Feature story | 4 August, 2006 at 2:00

Sweden has shut down four of its 10 nuclear plants after faults were discovered. A major fault was discovered after a serious incident at the Forsmark nuclear power station, a former director of the plant later said: "it was pure luck there...

Greenpeace defies plutonium secrecy ban

Greenpeace defies plutonium secrecy ban

Feature story | 8 October, 2003 at 2:00

Greenpeace today informed the French government at a hearing that we will not remove information concerning nuclear waste transports from our websites. This defies an order from the French Ministry of Industry to treat all information regarding...

15 things you didn't know about Chernobyl

15 things you didn't know about Chernobyl

Blog entry by Celine Mergan | 9 April, 2016 5 comments

In the early morning of April 26th, 1986, reactor four of the Chernobyl nuclear station exploded. It caused what the United Nations has called "the greatest environmental catastrophe in the history of humanity." Chernobyl was the...

78 African, Caribbean and Pacific Nations call for immediate halt to nuclear shipments

78 African, Caribbean and Pacific Nations call for immediate halt to nuclear shipments

Press release | 19 July, 2002 at 2:00

 

Transport

Transport

Background | 27 June, 2006 at 14:13

The nuclear industry is dependent upon the transportation of nuclear components and materials (uranium, fresh fuel, nuclear spent fuel and plutonium). Radioactive materials are carried by sea, rail, road and air. So even if you do not live near a...

Shadowlands photographs highlight human cost of Fukushima nuclear disaster

Press release | 20 February, 2012 at 8:58

Amsterdam, February 20, 2012 – Greenpeace today launched 'Shadowlands', a presentation of haunting photographs depicting the impacts of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the plight of people displaced by the crisis, and a warning to others that a...

Victory! Turkish Nuclear Plans Powered Down

Victory! Turkish Nuclear Plans Powered Down

Feature story | 25 September, 2008 at 2:00

Just two days after the arrest of 37 activists from Greenpeace and Global Action Group protesting against nuclear energy in Turkey, there has been a victory. For months, the Energy Ministry of Turkey has been intent on selecting a supplier for...

Nuclear nightmares

Nuclear nightmares

Feature story | 26 April, 2006 at 2:00

Elena was playing outside 20 years ago. Not far away the Chernobyl reactor was melting down. Since then both her and her sister have had brain cancer. Facts and figures, scientists and politicians, can't tell you the terrible consquences of...

Chernobyl field findings - 25 years later

Chernobyl field findings - 25 years later

Publication | 7 April, 2011 at 11:00

In the early morning of 26 April 1986, a major nuclear accident occurred in reactor number 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine. The reactor’s explosion and subsequent burning went down in history as the world’s worst civilian...

Fukushima: we must not forget!

Fukushima: we must not forget!

Blog entry by Dr. Rianne Teule | 11 March, 2014 9 comments

“Forgetting Fukushima makes it more likely that such a nuclear disaster could happen elsewhere,” said Mrs Tatsuko Okawara, one of the hundreds of thousands of victims of the Fukushima accident that began on 11 March 2011. Though...

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