Nuclear Disaster
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What the cherry trees at Fukushima tell us about Japan’s response to the 2011 nuclear disaster
While Chernobyl accelerated the collapse of the Soviet Union, Fukushima Daiichi has become a showcase for the Japanese government.
Sébastien Travadel, The Conversation, Franck Guarnieri, The Conversation & Aurélien Portelli, The Conversation
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Japanese government liable to pay damages for Fukushima nuclear disaster, says court
The company that ran the Fukushima nuclear plant will also have to pay damages, the court ruled.
Scroll Staff
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Watch Trevor Noah’s game on ‘The Daily Show’ to predict where World War III might begin
Syria? Afghanistan? Somewhere else?
Scroll Staff
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‘Saffronisation of Doordarshan’: After DD News unveils new logo, social media users express alarm
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How Karnataka’s once-powerful Janata Dal Secular was reduced to a Hindutva offshoot
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‘They built the Ram temple. That is bigger than providing jobs.’
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Will bring back electoral bonds after wider consultations, says Nirmala Sitharaman
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How Guwahati became the second-most polluted city in the world
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Watch: Japanese citizens displaced by the Fukushima disaster return home as anti-nuclear activists
A disquieting journey to nuclear exclusion zones.
Scroll Staff
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Bikini islanders still deal with fallout of US nuclear tests, 70 years later
In 1946, the US detonated the first of many atomic bomb tests in the Marshall Islands. Seventy years later, residents are still fighting for justice.
Timothy J. Jorgensen, The Conversation
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From fiction to gallows humour: How Chernobyl survivors are coping with trauma 30 years later
Chernobyl's liquidators have come up with some intriguing ways of dealing with what they've gone through – without directly confronting painful memories.
Richard Sambrook, The Conversation
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Watch: This fan-made trailer imagines Henry Cavill and Margot Robbie starring in a James Bond film
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Watch: Mount Ruang erupts in Indonesia, spewing columns of ash and lava
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Watch: Unbelievable scenes of flooding in Dubai airport, streets, and malls after heavy rain in UAE
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Indian elections: How secure is the EVM-VVPAT process?
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Watch: Footballers of Indian clubs walk out on the pitch with dogs to get them adopted
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We still don’t really know the health hazards of a nuclear accident
Estimating health impacts after a nuclear accident is more complicated than you might think.
Claire Corkhill, The Conversation
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Five years of Fukushima: It's not an anniversary but a still unfolding accident
Even as the world continues to watch with horror the events at the Japanese nuclear power plant, India has still not learnt its lessons.
Kumar Sundaram