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What is radiation?

Standard Page | 2012-02-20 at 14:10

Radiation is a form of energy. There are several types of radiation: heat, light, microwave and nuclear. The common characteristic of nuclear radiation is that it is so energetic that it can destroy molecules. Heat and sunlight are unable to do...

Greenpeace activists turned back at Daya Bay Nuclear Emergency Drill

Press release | 2012-04-26 at 17:45

April 26, 2012, Hong Kong - Today is the 26th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. It's also a day in which the Hong Kong SAR Government is holding a two-day inter-departmental nuclear plant drill at Tung Ping Chau. 17 Greenpeace...

Fukushima nuclear crisis timeline

Standard Page | 2012-02-20 at 14:00

March 2011 a magnitude 9.0 earthquake strikes off the east coast of Japan. A large tsunami follows. External power is lost at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant; back-up generators also go down. Find out how the Fukushima nuclear disaster...

Lessons from Fukushima

Publication | 2012-02-28 at 11:00

It has been almost 12 months since the Fukushima nuclear disaster began. Although the Great East Japan earthquake and the following tsunami triggered it, the key causes of the nuclear accident lie in the institutional failures of political...

Japan set for a nuclear-free spring with shutdown of Kashiwasaki-Kariwa reactor

Blog entry by Greenpeace Japan | 2012-03-27

"With the shutdown of Kashiwasaki-Kariwa's No.6 nuclear reactor yesterday, Japan now has no nuclear plants left operating on its main island of Honshu," said Junichi Sato, Greenpeace Japan Executive Director. "Only one reactor remains...

Silence and contamination, legacies of the Fukushima nuclear disaster

Blog entry by Laura Kenyon | 2012-02-20

Last year the Fukushima nuclear disaster forced 150,000 Japanese citizens to flee their homes. Now it's time to take a look at its legacy and take an opportunity to stand in solidarity with the people who continue to suffer the impacts...

Korea's Nuclear Energy Olympiad for students goes ahead, despite Fukushima just next door

Blog entry by Monica Tan | 2011-10-11

There may have been a fairly recent nuclear reactor disaster just across the ocean, but there was no stopping South Korea's 2011 International Nuclear Energy Olympiad , a competition challenging students to design a plan for gaining...

Japan set for a nuclear-free spring with shutdown of Kashiwasaki-Kariwa reactor

Blog entry by Greenpeace Japan | 2012-03-27

"With the shutdown of Kashiwasaki-Kariwa's No.6 nuclear reactor yesterday, Japan now has no nuclear plants left operating on its main island of Honshu," said Junichi Sato, Greenpeace Japan Executive Director. "Only one reactor remains...

Japan set for a nuclear-free spring with shutdown of Kashiwasaki-Kariwa reactor

Blog entry by Greenpeace Japan | 2012-03-27

"With the shutdown of Kashiwasaki-Kariwa's No.6 nuclear reactor yesterday, Japan now has no nuclear plants left operating on its main island of Honshu," said Junichi Sato, Greenpeace Japan Executive Director. "Only one reactor remains...

Silence and contamination, legacies of the Fukushima nuclear disaster

Blog entry by Laura Kenyon | 2012-02-20

Last year the Fukushima nuclear disaster forced 150,000 Japanese citizens to flee their homes. Now it's time to take a look at its legacy and take an opportunity to stand in solidarity with the people who continue to suffer the impacts...

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