Nuclear Power

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Health & Medicine

Opening the flood gates at Fukushima

Discharging radioactive water from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is avoidable, risky and potentially illegal

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Politics & Society

Will the Winter Olympics ease tensions on the Korean peninsula?

The world’s attention is turning to South Korea for the 2018 Winter Olympics, and North Korea’s participation may be cause for cautious optimism

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Politics & Society

“Risky” lack of nuclear governance in the Asia Pacific

Strong nuclear industry governance is crucial to ensuring power stations are safe and industrial nuclear material is kept out of the wrong hands, but in large parts of the Asia Pacific nuclear governance too often looks like “window dressing”

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Health & Medicine

Fukushima: The misery piles up

Five years on from the Fukushima nuclear disaster there is now an emerging thyroid cancer epidemic and 174,000 people are still displaced

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