Nuclear Power

As Historic Flooding Grips Texas, Groups Demand Nuclear Plant Be Shut Down

Video from Underwater Robot Shows Melted Nuclear Fuel in Bowels of Fukushima Reactor

Common Dreams staff

Since disaster in 2011, this is the first time plant operator has found something likely to be melted fuel

Experts: US Still 'Needlessly Vulnerable' to Fukushima-Style Disaster

Nadia Prupis, staff writer

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) did not adequately account for safety...

Sparking Fears of Airborne Radiation, Wildfire Burns in Fukushima 'No-Go Zone'

Lauren McCauley, staff writer

A wildfire broke out in the highly radioactive "no-go zone" near the crippled...

North Korea 'Ready for War' After US Sends Navy Team to Peninsula

Nuclear Power Suffers Major Blow With Westinghouse Bankruptcy

Tillerson Puts Preemptive Strike Against North Korea 'On the Table'

NY Nuke Plant to be Shuttered, But Will Cuomo Turn to Dirty Gas Instead?

Tsunami Panic After 6.9 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Off Fukushima Coast

UK Govt Says Taxpayers Will Foot Excess Bill for Waste Storage at New Nuke Plant, Docs Reveal

'Last Gasp of Dying Industry': Experts Decry First US Nuclear Reactor in 20 Years

'Where Is Justice'? Top UN Court Rejects Marshall Islands Nuke Case

Public Cost of Fukushima Cleanup Tops $40 Billion and Is Expected to Climb

New Study Shows How Clinging to Nuclear Power Means Climate Failure

Nagasaki Mayor: 'Come Find Out What Happened Under the Mushroom Cloud'

Melting Greenland Ice Cap Will Expose Military's Cold War-Era Toxic Waste

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Fish From Fukushima

Fishermen have resumed fishing after postponing their start when hundreds of tons of radioactive water were found leaking from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. Twenty-one trawlers brought home 5 tons of seafood, including octopus and squid, from the trial operation; if testing shows they're safe, they'll be shipped to markets in Japan. While older people are said to be buying fish from the sea off Fukushima Prefecture, others don't want their kids or grandkids eating it...