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No more Chernobyls

No more Chernobyls

Topic | 21 April, 2006 at 17:50

It has been 20 years since the name Chernobyl became the infamous nuclear accident that devastated the lives of millions of people in Western Russia, Belarus and the Ukraine.

Messages of Support for Japan

Messages of Support for Japan

Topic | 1 March, 2012 at 14:00

What happened in Fukushima can happen anywhere. This is a problem that affects all of the world, not just Japan, and we need to stop nukes now.

Messages of Support for Japan

Messages of Support for Japan

Topic | 1 March, 2012 at 14:00

What happened in Fukushima can happen anywhere. This is a problem that affects all of the world, not just Japan, and we need to stop nukes now.

Tweet for research

Tweet for research

Topic | 29 April, 2011 at 13:17

The Japanese Government is blocking us from carrying out radiation monitoring within the country's 12 mile territorial waters. Tell Japan's Prime Minister that independent monitoring of radioactive ocean pollution is in everyone's best interest.

Accidents

Accidents

Topic | 27 June, 2006 at 12:14

Radioactive soil from Ukraine ‘returned’ to IAEA by Greenpeace

Radioactive soil from Ukraine ‘returned’ to IAEA by Greenpeace

Press release | 24 April, 2006 at 2:00

Radioactive soil from a public area outside the exclusion zone at the site of the Chernobyl disaster – so contaminated it must be classified as radioactive waste under European law - was delivered today to headquarters of the International Atomic...

Radioactive Champagne in our future?

Radioactive Champagne in our future?

Feature story | 30 May, 2006 at 2:00

Ahhh, a fine Champagne. A delicate nose. Full body. Great colour. And that indescribable sensation when you raise your glass of having your tongue tickled by .... TRITIUM???

Greenpeace new study reveals death toll of Chernobyl enormously underestimated

Greenpeace new study reveals death toll of Chernobyl enormously underestimated

Press release | 18 April, 2006 at 2:00

A new Greenpeace report, with input from 52 scientists from around the world, reveals that official estimates of the health impact from the Chernobyl catastrophe have been hugely under estimated by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). (1)

Nuclear security: power plants are poorly protected against malicious acts

Nuclear security: power plants are poorly protected against malicious acts

Blog entry by Mehdi Leman | 10 October, 2017 2 comments

The nuclear power plants around us are “ The Sword of Damocles ” over our heads. A new report by independent experts, submitted to authorities in France, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland and Luxembourg, questions security at French and...

Lessons from Fukushima: new Greenpeace report a warning on nuclear risks

Lessons from Fukushima: new Greenpeace report a warning on nuclear risks

Blog entry by Jan Beranek | 28 February, 2012 8 comments

I will never forget the sleepless nights that began for me on March 11, 2011, endless hours organizing the Greenpeace response to the Fukushima nuclear disaster. I was looking for any new information with better clues to what was...

Nuclear under fire

Nuclear under fire

Feature story | 6 July, 2007 at 2:00

It's been a bad few weeks for the nuclear industry, especially in Germany. While the nuclear companies were lobbying to reverse the German nukes phase out, two German nuclear plants suffered a fire and emergency shut down.

Chernobyl death toll grossly underestimated

Chernobyl death toll grossly underestimated

Feature story | 18 April, 2006 at 2:00

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

Accident at Japan nuclear plant

Accident at Japan nuclear plant

Feature story | 9 August, 2004 at 2:00

A fatal accident has killed at least four people at the Mihama nuclear power plant in Japan. There was no leak of radioactivity but it is the deadliest accident in a catalogue of nuclear scandals in Japan.

Fukushima update: Radiation detected in food and water far from stricken nuclear facility

Fukushima update: Radiation detected in food and water far from stricken nuclear facility

Blog entry by Andrew Davies | 19 March, 2011 7 comments

19 March 2011 Video from Yomiuri Shimbun Click here to watch on You Tube. While the workers at Fukushima are continuously spraying reactor unit 3 with water from fire fighting and special forces trucks, the wider...

Fukushima Fallout

Fukushima Fallout

Publication | 16 February, 2013 at 0:30

From the beginning of the use of nuclear power to produce electricity 60 years ago, the nuclear industry has been protected from paying the full costs of its failures. Governments have created a system that protects the profits of companies while...

Fukushima nuclear disaster and the violation of women’s & children’s human rights

Fukushima nuclear disaster and the violation of women’s & children’s human rights

Blog entry by Kendra Ulrich | 7 March, 2017

The 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear catastrophe may feel like ancient history in world constantly bombarded with news of the another tragedy or disaster. But for those who were impacted by the worst nuclear disaster in a generation, the...

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...

IAEA deliberately downplays Chernobyl death toll to pave way for nuclear renaissance

IAEA deliberately downplays Chernobyl death toll to pave way for nuclear renaissance

Press release | 7 September, 2005 at 2:00

Greenpeace, today, accused the International Atomic Energy Agency of deliberately trying to down play the death toll of the Chernobyl accident as part of the nuclear industry's continued attempt to portray itself as an acceptable future energy...

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