Angry refugees forced from their homes near Japan's wrecked nuclear power plant protested outside the HQ of its operator today, demanding compensation.

JAPAN raised the crisis level at its crippled nuclear plant to a severity on a par with the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, citing high overall radiation leaks that have contaminated the air, tap water, vegetables and seawater.

Japan's prime minister has made a public appeal for calm after raising the severity level of the nuclear plant crisis to the highest rating - on par with the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.

Japan’s nuclear safety agency raised the severity rating of the crisis at its nuclear plant to the highest level today, on a par with the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.

Highly toxic plutonium is seeping from the damaged nuclear power plant in Japan’s tsunami disaster zone into the soil outside, officials said.

WORKERS discovered new pools of radioactive water leaking from Japan’s crippled nuclear complex as emergency crews struggled to pump out hundreds of tonnes of contaminated water and bring the plant back under control.

Germany’s anti-nuclear Greens scored a remarkable victory over Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative party in a state election that turned into a referendum on nuclear power in the wake of Japan’s Fukushima disaster.

Shops across Tokyo began rationing goods including milk, toilet paper, rice and water today as a run on bottled water coupled with delivery disruptions left shelves bare, nearly two weeks after the earthquake and tsunami.

GERMANY is determined to show the world how abandoning nuclear energy can be done.

SIRENS wailed along a devastated coastline to mark exactly one week since an earthquake and tsunami triggered a nuclear emergency, and the government acknowledged it was slow to respond to the disasters that the prime minister called a “great test for the Japanese people.”

Emergency crews are still battling to cool overheated nuclear fuel at a stricken nuclear plant a week after the devastating earthquake and tsunami struck Japan.

A convoy of nuclear waste finally made it to a German storage depot today after facing a four-day struggle through protesters.

A ban on Belarus children coming to Ireland was today discussed on the fringes of an EU meeting in Luxembourg.

Egyptian authorities today said they have arrested an engineer from the country’s nuclear energy agency for spying for Israel.

AN accident at Sellafield nuclear station would contaminate Ireland’s environment but the country would not suffer deaths and devastation on the scale of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, it was claimed last night.

The Chernobyl Children’s Project International (CCPI) today warned thousands of children suffering from the effects of nuclear contamination in Belarus are in danger if authorities impose foreign travel restrictions.

THE country’s nuclear watchdog organisation has criticised the government for failing to provide grants to make buildings safe from cancer-causing radon gas.