Science in the News: Nuclear Radiation

		The disaster 20 years on...
Radiation Nuclear Power	6 July 2011	Japan 'to hold stress tests at all nuclear plants'
Radiation Nuclear Power	6 July 2011	Japan 'to hold stress tests at all nuclear plants'
Radiation Nuclear Power	Wednesday, 29 June, 2005	Cost of nuclear 'underestimated'
Radiation Nuclear Power	Monday, 20 June, 2005	Is nuclear energy cost-effective?
Radiation Nuclear Power	Monday, 16 May, 2005	Is Britain's future really nuclear?
Radiation Pollution	Tuesday, 26 April, 2005	Belarus marks Chernobyl disaster
Radiation Pollution	Tuesday, 26 April, 2005	Belarus cursed by Chernobyl
Radiation Pollution	Saturday, 20 November, 2004	Chernobyl 'caused Sweden cancers'
Radiation Pollution	Saturday, 31 July, 2004	Belarus deports Chernobyl expert
Radiation Pollution	Monday, 26 April, 2004	Chernobyl victims remembered
Radiation Pollution	Monday, 7 July, 2003	Depleted uranium in stolen van from a company in Essex that uses the product to help with the inspection of industrial pipes.
Radiation Pollution	Thursday, 22 May, 2003	Afghans' uranium levels spark alert - asmall sample of Afghan civilians have shown "astonishing" levels of uranium in their urine, an independent scientist says.
Radiation Pollution	Thursday, 22 May, 2003	The Chernobyl nuclear disaster shook the world in 1986 - and hundreds of Welsh farmers continue to feel the tremors 17 years on - almost 400 sheep farms in England, Wales and Scotland remained affected.
Radiation Pollution	Tuesday, 25 March, 2003	Depleted uranium still haunts Balkans - Depleted Uranium (DU) ammunition used by Nato in the mid-1990s in Bosnia-Herzegovina is still polluting air and water there, the UN reports.
Radiation Pollution / Defense	Tuesday, 18 March, 2003	US to use depleted uranium - a United States defence official has said moves to ban depleted uranium ammunition are just an attempt by America's enemies to blunt its military might.
Radiation Pollution	Monday, 3 March, 2003	UK farms still radioactive - hundreds of farms are still contaminated with radioactive material from Chernobyl 17 years after the world's worst nuclear power disaster, the BBC has learned.
Radiation Pollution	Sunday, 29 December, 2002	Ukraine police seize radioactive Christmas Trees
Radiation Terrorism	Tuesday, 11 June, 2002	The kitchen table atom bomb - it would completely devastate the centre of a large city.
Radiation Pollution	Friday, 26 April, 2002	Chernobyl radiation 'on the rise' - the concrete sarcophagus - designed to encase the ruins and hundreds of tonnes of nuclear fuel remaining from the 1986 disaster - was built too hastily and is now failing, the professor said.
Radiation Pollution	Sunday 24 June 2001	Chernobyl children to have Devon holiday - the area around the reactor is still contaminated and children born in the area have a maximum life expectancy of around 40 years
Radiation Terrorism	Sunday, 3 June, 2001	Apocalypse tomorrow? - there are people who want to smuggle plutonium to make nuclear bombs. Who are they and can they really be stopped?
Radiation Terrorism	Wednesday, 31 January, 2001	Plutonium stash found in Greek forest
Radiation - disposal of waste	Friday, August 13, 1999	UK urged to end nuclear reprocessing - BNFL plans to pile up plutonium indefinitely without regard for the long-term threat it presents.
Radiation Pollution	28th April 1986	1986: Soviets admit nuclear accident

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