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Rescuers find three bodies after Peru landslide
Mar 17, 2022 (AFP)
A landslide Tuesday in the town of Retamas, around 500 kilometers (310 miles) north of Lima, buried several homes and trapped at least eight people, five of who...
Chernobyl workers held 'hostage' amid fears for reactor safety
Mar 16, 2022 (AFP)
Tired and poorly fed, they were working the night shift when Russia captured the site of the 1986 core meltdown that sparked the worst nuclear reactor catastrop...
Belarus grid supplying electricity to Chernobyl: local authorities
Mar 16, 2022 (AFP)
Power at the facility was knocked out on Monday according to Ukrainian authorities after Russian forces damaged a power line, but the International Atomic Energ...
Rescuers find two dead bodies after Peru landslide
Mar 16, 2022 (AFP)
A landslide Tuesday in the town of Retamas, around 500 kilometers (310 miles) north of Lima, buried several homes and trapped at least eight people, authorities...
Power restored at Ukraine's Chernobyl: IAEA
Mar 15, 2022 (AFP)
Separately, Ukraine's state nuclear operator Energoatom accused the Russian military of detonating ammunition at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station in the c...
Ukraine's Chernobyl loses power again: operator
Mar 14, 2022 (AFP)
"The line that supplies the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and the town of Slavutych was damaged by the occupying forces," Ukrenergo said on Facebook, referring ...
More than 2.6 million flee Ukraine war: UN
Mar 13, 2022 (AFP)
- 2,698,280 refugees - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees said there were 2,698,280 refugees who had fled Ukraine so far, according to its dedicated webpage ...
Power restored to Ukraine's Chernobyl plant, seized by Russian forces: Kyiv
Mar 13, 2022 (AFP)
"Today, thanks to the incredible efforts of (Ukrainian energy) specialists, our nuclear power engineers and electricians managed to return the power supply to t...
Humanitarian situation in some Ukraine cities 'catastrophic': Russian military
Mar 12, 2022 (AFP)
"Unfortunately, the humanitarian situation in Ukraine is continuing to deteriorate rapidly, and in some cities it has reached catastrophic proportions," said th...
Radioactive fuel, contaminated water: the Fukushima clean-up
Mar 11, 2022 (AFP)
Here are some facts about the situation at the plant, which AFP visited this month: The damage Three of Fukushima's six reactors were operating when the tsunami...
Free trains for Ukrainians leaving Poland for Germany
Mar 10, 2022 (AFP)
As of Wednesday, Ukrainian citizens can travel free by second class on the nine daily intercity trains linking the Polish cities of Warsaw, Przemysl (via Krakow...
IAEA says loses contact with Chernobyl nuclear data systems
Mar 09, 2022 (AFP)
On February 24, Russia invaded Ukraine and seized the defunct plant, site of a 1986 disaster that killed hundreds and spread radioactive contamination west acro...
Fresh evacuation efforts for devastated Ukraine cities
Mar 09, 2022 (AFP)
As fighting raged on the 14th day of the invasion, safe routes were opening out of five Ukrainian areas including suburbs of the capital Kyiv that have been dev...
Fukushima region forges renewable future after nuclear disaster
Mar 09, 2022 (AFP)
On March 11, 2011, an earthquake unleashed a deadly tsunami on northeastern Japan, triggering a meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant and forcing mass evacuat...
What we know about the situation at Chernobyl after power cut
Mar 09, 2022 (AFP)
But experts have cautioned that for now the lack of electricity at Chernobyl -- the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster -- does not pose a major security...
Dutch aid groups raise 106 mn euros for Ukraine
Mar 08, 2022 (AFP)
"The counter showed 106.2 million euros at the end of this national day of action," said a statement on a website for 11 humanitarian groups involved in the col...
Russian forces attack Ukrainian nuclear plant, blaze extinguished
Mar 04, 2022 (AFP)
After hours of uncertainty throughout the night, local authorities reported the fire was extinguished at dawn. They had earlier reported that no immediate radia...
Ukrainian FM calls for Russians to stop firing at nuclear plant
Mar 04, 2022 (AFP)
The blaze erupted at a power unit of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant following Russian strikes, according to spokesman Andrei Tuz. The station at Zaporizhz...
UN nuclear watchdog chief offers to go to Chernobyl
Mar 04, 2022 (AFP)
The offer came hours after Russian invasion forces seized control of Europe's largest power plant at Zaporizhzhia after a battle with Ukrainian troops that caus...
Fire at Ukrainian nuclear plant after Russian forces attack
Mar 04, 2022 (AFP)
Local authorities reported no immediate radiation rise was detected and "essential" equipment was unaffected by the fire, but it remained unclear what the invad...
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