The Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland (RPII) has confirmed that it has detected the presence of trace amounts of radioactivity from the Fukushima accident in Ireland.

THE race to prevent total meltdown of reactors at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in Japan could take weeks, the chair of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission warned yesterday.

The Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland (RPII) has said that radioactive material from the Japanese nuclear power plants is highly unlikely to reach Ireland.

The Radiological Institute of Ireland (RPII) has confirmed that the potential for the explosion at the nuclear power plant in north eastern Japan this morning to have implications in Ireland is "remote".

CHRISTINE Keaney’s home in Co Galway is one of almost 600 across the country found to have high levels of cancer-causing radon gas so far this year.

Only 5% of homes believed to have high levels of a cancer-causing gas have been identified, experts warned today.

IRELAND has the world’s sixth-highest rate of the cancer-causing radon gas according to figures from the World Health Organisation (WHO).

The second highest level of radon gas ever found in Ireland has been detected in a newspaper office, test results revealed today.

Up to 200 people a year die from lung cancer caused by high levels of radon gas in Ireland – way above the global average, health organisations revealed today.

Thousands of people around the country are receiving potentially lethal doses of radiation that would not be tolerated by workers in the Sellafield nuclear plant, it was claimed today.

FIREFIGHTERS are ill-equipped and insufficiently trained to deal with a major nuclear disaster, the National Firefighters Committee said yesterday.

Ireland's nuclear watchdog claims that we are well prepared to deal with a nuclear accident happening abroad.

TWELVE companies, including Paddy Power bookmakers, are to face criminal prosecution next month by the country’s nuclear watchdog over their alleged failure to conduct tests for the cancer-causing gas, radon.

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 impact of a terrorist attack at Sellafield nuclear plant on Ireland is “unquantifiable”, a nuclear watchdog warned yesterday.

Dangers posed by the Sellafield nuclear plant could threaten Ireland for the next 150 years, it was claimed today.