JAPANESE Prime Minister Naoto Kan said yesterday he was ready for a long fight to bring a quake- hit nuclear plant under control but was convinced Japan would overcome the world’s worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl in 1986.

Japan ordered emergency workers to withdraw from its stricken nuclear plant today amid a surge in radiation, temporarily suspending efforts to cool the overheating reactors.

A US government document revealed that the Obama administration is planning to cut the US nuclear stockpile by up to 40% by 2021.

WHEN my sister Adi Roche mentioned (Letters, April 14) how I was living in Harrisburg during the Three Mile Island disaster in March 1979, she forgot to point out that I was pro-nuclear back then.

Governments from nearly 200 countries will launch discussions in Thailand tomorrow on forging a global warming agreement, a process that is expected to be fraught with disagreements over how much to reduce greenhouse gases and which nations should adhere to binding targets.

Humanity faces oblivion if it fails to confront global warming, the UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon warned today.

Climate change delegates from Europe and America went head-to-head today over whether to include guidelines for greenhouse gas emissions in the plan for a new international agreement.

America refused to back down from its opposition to compulsory cuts in greenhouse gas emissions today.

US President George Bush wants Congress to aggressively expand the use of alternative fuels, mainly ethanol, to reduce the need for petrol and put the brakes on growing US oil consumption.

The United States is “crossing the rubicon into space weaponisation” with a little-known missile programme, a senior government official said today.

Executives from General Motors and Ford have spoken out against moves to increase fuel economy standards.

A classified Pentagon report says the United States should slash its nuclear arsenal and replace it with precision conventional weapons, it was claimed today.