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

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Franck Guarnieri, The Conversation

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Aurélien Portelli, The Conversation

· Apr 03, 2019 · 11:30 pm

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

· Oct 10, 2017 · 12:58 pm

Watch Trevor Noah’s game on ‘The Daily Show’ to predict where World War III might begin

Syria? Afghanistan? Somewhere else?

Scroll Staff

· Apr 20, 2017 · 08:00 pm

Watch: Japanese citizens displaced by the Fukushima disaster return home as anti-nuclear activists

A disquieting journey to nuclear exclusion zones.

Scroll Staff

· Mar 20, 2017 · 11:15 am

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

· Jun 30, 2016 · 11:30 pm

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

· Apr 26, 2016 · 06:30 am

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

· Mar 19, 2016 · 04:30 pm

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

· Mar 14, 2016 · 11:30 am