A robust international nuclear safety action plan is being implemented in the wake of the Fukushima disaster, writes Yukiya Amano

A worst-case scenario sketched out by the Japanese government foresaw the end of Tokyo in a chain of nuclear explosions as the Fukushima crisis erupted last year, an independent panel said.

The head of the UN nuclear agency has urged a worldwide rethink of safety measures to prevent new nuclear disasters.

Japanese whalers caught two animals along the northern coast that had traces of radiation, presumably from leaks at a damaged nuclear power plant, officials said.

THE German cabinet signed off yesterday on a bill phasing out nuclear power in Europe’s biggest economy by 2022, prompted by the disaster in March at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant.

THE Government is to introduce a new energy policy within the next year to reassess the country’s needs and to ensure security of supply, Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources Pat Rabbitte said yesterday.

Japan is scrapping plans to generate half its energy needs from nuclear power in the wake of the Fukushima disaster.

The Fukushima disaster has reinforced Ireland's distrust of nuclear energy, according to a new poll out today.

GERMAN energy giant RWE filed a legal challenge yesterday to the government’s order to shut down temporarily the country’s seven oldest nuclear reactors in light of the Fukushima crisis in Japan.

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.”