Japan disaster

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  Fukushima nuclear disaster: three years on 120,000 evacuees remain uprooted

  10 Sep 2014:

  Japan's 2011 plant meltdown has torn apart close families, leaving elderly relatives isolated and villages uninhabited

• Japan to restart nuclear reactors

  10 Sep 2014: Nuclear watchdog gives go-ahead to switch two reactors back on but Shinzo Abe faces uphill battle to win over sceptical public

• Fukushima fallout continues: now cleanup workers claim unpaid wages

  9 Sep 2014: Last month Tokyo Electric Power was ordered to pay $500,000 compensation, now workers sue for promised danger money

• Fukushima suicide victim's family wins damages

  26 Aug 2014: Family of Hamako Watanabe, who fled nuclear disaster and later doused herself in petrol, successfully sue plant operator Tepco

• US sailors prepare for fresh legal challenge over Fukushima radiation

  20 Aug 2014: $1bn lawsuit accuses Tepco of failing to avoid the accident and of lying about radiation levels that have caused health problems to themselves and their families stationed in Japan

• Belarus anti-nuclear activist fears for 'another Chernobyl' on her doorstep

  25 Jul 2014: Tatyana Novikova says new Russian-funded nuclear plant bypassed planning regulations and violates international conventions
  

• Japanese monkeys' abnormal blood linked to Fukushima disaster – study

  24 Jul 2014: Primates in Fukushima region found to have low white and red blood cell levels and radioactive caesium

• Japan earthquake has raised pressure below Mount Fuji, says new study

  15 Jul 2014: Geological disturbances caused by 2011 tremors mean active volcano is in a 'critical state', say scientific researchers

• Doubts over ice wall to keep Fukushima safe from damaged nuclear reactors

  13 Jul 2014: Frozen barrier, costing £185m, being built around Fukushima Daiichi's four damaged reactors to contain irradiated water

• Tsunami-proof 'Great Wall of Japan' divides villagers

  29 Jun 2014: Government wants to build 440 walls along coastline, but some residents believe a concrete fortress is not the answer

• Fukushima operator struggles to build ice wall to contain radioactive water

  17 Jun 2014: Tepco says it is behind schedule with scheme because temperature of pipes sunk into ground is not low enough

• Gourmet manga stirs up storm after linking Fukushima to nosebleeds

  22 May 2014:

  Outcry over storyline blaming radiation exposure moves PM to respond and publisher to suspend Oishinbo series

• Manga about Fukushima cleanup operation becomes hit in Japan

  22 May 2014:

  Kazuto Tatsuta, who worked on cleanup at nuclear plant, hopes his work 'tells people about things that the media never see'

• Fukushima Daiichi begins pumping groundwater into Pacific

  21 May 2014:

  Tepco hails 'major milestone' in cleanup operation three years after earthquake and tsunami damaged reactors at nuclear plant

• China working on uranium-free nuclear plants in attempt to combat smog

  19 Mar 2014:

  Beijing brings forward deadline for world's first thorium-fuelled facility in attempt to break reliance on fossil fuels

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