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Secret airlift of nuclear material from Iraq

Feature story | July 7, 2004 at 5:30

BAGHDAD, Iraq — What does the US have to hide about radioactive materials flown out of Iraq? Why has the international community not been allowed to monitor the secret airlift which the US has just confirmed? Where is the inventory accounting...

Mayapuri is still a radiation hazard zone: Greenpeace Field Survey

Press release | May 14, 2010 at 5:30

NEW DELHI, India — Early this morning, a team of two radiological experts from Greenpeace began a combing operation at the Mayapuri scrap market and discovered that there is radiation risk to people at Mayapuri scrapyard in the immediate vicinity...

Greenpeace re-views decontamination of Mayapuri “hot-spots”

Press release | May 19, 2010 at 5:30

NEW DELHI, India — The Greenpeace team of radiation experts revisited the Mayapuri scrap yard to check the levels of radiation after a decontamination effort by authorities (1) on Sunday, May 16th. The authorities were forced to take immediate...

The second biggest nuclear disaster in history

Feature story | October 3, 2007 at 19:48

Everybody knows that the biggest nuclear catastrophe in history was Chernobyl. But how many have heard of the second biggest? Today marks the fiftieth anniversary of a radiation nightmare.

Chernobyl death toll grossly underestimated

Feature story | April 20, 2006 at 16:18

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine — A new Greenpeace report has revealed that the full consequences of the Chernobyl disaster could top a quarter of a million cancers cases and nearly 100,000 fatal cancers.

The second biggest nuclear disaster in history

Feature story | October 3, 2007 at 5:30

Everybody knows that the biggest nuclear catastrophe in history was Chernobyl. But how many have heard of the second biggest? Today marks the fiftieth anniversary of a radiation nightmare.

Nuclear nightmares

Feature story | April 27, 2006 at 14:39

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...

Radiation

Page | October 5, 2006 at 19:57

Radiation is the term used to describe energy in the form of light or particles. Whereas most atoms in nature are stable and remain unchanged in composition and energy, certain natural or artificially created atoms are unstable, which means they...

Greenpeace radiation experts present findings, announce further Fukushima...

Press release | March 30, 2011 at 2:30

Tokyo, 30 March 2011: A group of Greenpeace radiation experts (1), returning to Tokyo from an initial assessment of contamination from the crisis-striken Fukushima nuclear plant, announced plans to expand their contamination monitoring in the...

Greenpeace marine radiation monitoring blocked by Japanese government

Press release | April 28, 2011 at 18:36

Tokyo, Japan, 28 April 2011 – The Japanese Government has refused to grant Greenpeace permission to carry out independent radiation monitoring within the country’s 12 mile territorial waters, approving only a much more limited programme further...

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