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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.

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...

Accidents

Accidents

Topic | 27 June, 2006 at 12:14

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 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...

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...

We’ve had enough of eating and breathing Chernobyl

We’ve had enough of eating and breathing Chernobyl

Blog entry by Rashid Alimov | 7 April, 2016 4 comments

I’m in the Bryansk region of Russia. Despite being over 180 kilometres from Chernobyl and thirty years after the disaster, my geiger counter still picks up elevated levels of radiation.   This invisible radiation hazard is a...

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

 

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...

Greenpeace takes Tuwaitha radiation to heart of U.S. administration in Iraq

Greenpeace takes Tuwaitha radiation to heart of U.S. administration in Iraq

Press release | 4 July, 2003 at 2:00

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...

Greenpeace climbers scale Mt Fuji to call for nuclear-free Japan

Press release | 28 February, 2012 at 9:38

Kawaguchiko, Japan, February 28, 2012 - In solemn remembrance of the lives affected by last year’s Japanese earthquake and the following Fukushima nuclear tragedy, Greenpeace climbers today delivered messages of support and hope to the summit of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Human tragedy of Russian plutonium production portrayed in photographic exhibition

Press release | 20 May, 2002 at 2:00

40% of Sweden's nuclear reactors down after incident

Press release | 3 August, 2006 at 2:00

Four of Sweden's ten nuclear power plants have been closed after an investigation by the Swedish nuclear regulator amid severe safety concerns following an incident in one of the reactors last week. The closed reactors have potential problems...

Call for immediate closure of Sweden's nuclear reactors following near-meltdown incident

Press release | 3 August, 2006 at 20:04

Sweden's nuclear regulator SKI will meet in emergency session tomorrow (3 August) to decide on a possible immediate shut-down of all but one of the country's nuclear power stations supplying up to 50% of Sweden's electricity. Greenpeace has...

Chernobyl and Fukushima: Illuminating the invisible

Chernobyl and Fukushima: Illuminating the invisible

Blog entry by Greg McNevin | 21 April, 2016 7 comments

30 years after Chernobyl and five years after the triple meltdown at TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, the shadows of both disasters still loom large. In the wake of Fukushima, I joined Greenpeace monitoring teams on...

Nuclear industry attempt to ban Greenpeace protest against plutonium shipment

Nuclear industry attempt to ban Greenpeace protest against plutonium shipment

Press release | 4 October, 2004 at 2:00

Greenpeace has been summoned to appear in the Cherbourg Court tomorrow, where it will face a request by Areva, through its subsidiary Cogema, and British Nuclear Fuels Ltd (BNFL), for an injunction preventing it from approaching within 300m of...

Greenpeace condemns the new International Nuclear Liability Convention

Press release | 15 April, 2015 at 13:37

Vienna, 15 April 2015 – Greenpeace condemns the new international convention on nuclear liability that came into force today, warning that it protects the nuclear industry, not nuclear victims.

Unjust laws for nuclear power leave Fukushima victims suffering

Press release | 11 March, 2013 at 1:16

Tokyo, March 11, 2013 – On the second anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Greenpeace made the following statements to highlight the flawed laws protecting the nuclear industry and the fact that hundreds of thousands of people in Japan...

Fukushima radiation briefing

Background | 19 March, 2011 at 17:22

This Greenpeace briefing to provide analysis and advice of the risks and potential health impacts following releases of radioactivity from Japan’s Fukushima 1/Daiichi nuclear power plant, which was damaged by the March 11th earthquake and...

Greenpeace blocks top secret transport of plutonium in France, revealing global proliferation threat is not in Iraq

Greenpeace blocks top secret transport of plutonium in France, revealing global...

Press release | 19 February, 2003 at 1:00

 

What's the damage?

What's the damage?

Background | 26 April, 2006 at 17:10

Populations and individuals around the world have been affected by the increase of radioactive materials in the global ecosystem. Cancers, birth defects, genetic damage, lowered immunity to diseases: these are only some of the potential effects...

Reprocessing

Reprocessing

Background | 27 June, 2006 at 12:31

Every uranium-fuelled nuclear reactor creates plutonium during routine operation. Every 12-18 months the reactor is shut down, and one quarter of the fuel is discharged, and fresh fuel loaded. The so-called spent fuel consists of plutonium...

Dirty bombs

Dirty bombs

Background | 27 June, 2006 at 12:12

The International Atomic Energy Agency attempts to keep track of all kinds of radioactive materials as they move around the globe. However as the world's nuclear reactors continue to produce waste, and the nuclear five nations persist in having a...

Greenpeace report reveals French dairy cattle given water contaminated by leaking nuclear dumpsite

Greenpeace report reveals French dairy cattle given water contaminated by leaking...

Press release | 23 May, 2006 at 2:00

Radioactive waste from a storage facility in Normandy, France is leaking into groundwater and is being used by local farmers for their dairy cattle, according to a report published today by French laboratory ACRO (1). Water contamination from...

France under threat as US plutonium transport departs la Hague

France under threat as US plutonium transport departs la Hague

Press release | 7 October, 2004 at 2:00

The final stage of the U.S. transport of weapons-grade plutonium started at 2:15 am today, with the departure of a heavily armed convoy from the reprocessing nuclear complex at la Hague bound for the Cadarache nuclear facility north of Marseille,...

US plutonium shipment arrives in France, increasing global nuclear weapons proliferation risk

US plutonium shipment arrives in France, increasing global nuclear weapons...

Press release | 6 October, 2004 at 2:00

Despite growing public and political concern about nuclear proliferation, one of two lightly armed UK-flagged commercial nuclear cargo ship - Pacific Pintail - arrived in Cherbourg today. French nuclear company Areva have stated to the press that...

Greenpeace activists block road to be used by US nuclear convoy

Greenpeace activists block road to be used by US nuclear convoy

Press release | 5 October, 2004 at 2:00

Greenpeace activists today blocked the road to be used for transporting 140 kilograms of U.S. weapons plutonium after its imminent arrival in France. A truck was bolted and secured to the main road (D901) between the Cherbourg military port and...

Round the world winner arrested in Cherbourg military dock during US nuclear shipment protest

Round the world winner arrested in Cherbourg military dock during US nuclear shipment...

Press release | 3 October, 2004 at 2:00

Eugene Riguidel, one of France's most famous sailors and a member of the Atlantic Nuclear Free Flotilla, has been arrested for sailing his boat into the military zone of Cherbourg harbour today. Riguidel was detained while he was peacefully...

Urgent safety assessment required for Asia's largest plutonium facility

Urgent safety assessment required for Asia's largest plutonium facility

Press release | 27 February, 2004 at 1:00

Greenpeace today warned that an urgent and comprehensive assessment of the risks posed by Asia's largest plutonium facility needs to be launched by a Japanese Government Committee (1) which is expected to hold a decisive meeting this weekend. The...

No more dirty nuclear for Europe, Go wind!

No more dirty nuclear for Europe, Go wind!

Press release | 4 December, 2003 at 1:00

This morning 40 Greenpeace activists displayed 10 wind turbines on the grounds of a nuclear power plant in Penly, France while unfolding a banner on the plant's reactor building saying 'No nukes, Go wind'. The action was taken due to the decision...

US military radiation expert backs Greenpeace call for full inspection of contaminated communities in Iraq

US military radiation expert backs Greenpeace call for full inspection of...

Press release | 24 June, 2003 at 2:00

A US military health physicist and radiation expert in Iraq today endorsed the call from Greenpeace for the UN nuclear experts, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), to be given a full mandate to search, survey and decontaminate towns...

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