Environment

Japan’s ocean radiation hits 7.5 million times legal limit
By Andrew McCleese on April 5, 2011
The operator of Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant said Tuesday that it had found radioactive iodine at 7.5 million times the legal limit in a...
Japan nuclear crisis: workers using newspaper and sawdust to block pipes
By Andrew McCleese on April 4, 2011
Japanese workers battling to stop a radioactive water leak into the Pacific from the beleaguered nuclear power plant have resorted to using newspaper and sawdust...
Japan plant radioactivity 10,000 times standard
By Andrew McCleese on March 31, 2011
TOKYO - Officials with the company that operates Japan's tsunami-stricken nuclear plant say radioactive contamination in groundwater underneath a reactor has been measured at 10,000...
Fukushima beyond point of no return as radioactive core melts through containment vessel
By Andrew McCleese on March 30, 2011
The battle to save the Fukushima nuclear power plant now appears lost as the radioactive core from Reactor No. 2 has melted through the containment...
Plutonium detected in soil at Japanese nuclear plant
By Andrew McCleese on March 28, 2011
SENDAI, Japan (AFP) – Plutonium has been detected in soil at a stricken nuclear plant in Japan and highly contaminated water has leaked from a...
EU to ban cars from cities by 2050
By Andrew McCleese on March 28, 2011
Cars will be banned from London and all other cities across Europe under a draconian EU masterplan to cut CO2 emissions by 60 per cent...
Disaster-hit Japan faces protracted nuclear crisis
By Andrew McCleese on March 27, 2011
TOKYO, March 28 (Reuters) - Japan appeared resigned on Monday to a long fight to contain the world's most dangerous atomic crisis in 25 years...
Radiation Is Beyond Zone, Report Says
By Andrew McCleese on March 25, 2011
TOKYO—Levels of radioactivity from Japan's damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex are above government limits for infants in some areas outside the plant's 12-mile evacuation zone,...
Neutron beam observed 13 times at crippled Fukushima nuke plant
By Andrew McCleese on March 24, 2011
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Wednesday it has observed a neutron beam, a kind of radioactive ray, 13 times on the premises of the Fukushima...
Judge places California’s global warming program on hold
By Andrew McCleese on March 22, 2011
A San Francisco superior court judge has put California's sweeping plan to curb greenhouse gas pollution on hold, saying the state did not adequately evaluate...