Japan disaster

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  Nuclear scare stories are a gift to the truly lethal coal industry

  16 Dec 2013: George Monbiot: Coal is a much nastier power source than the one we have chosen to fear in a deadly form of displacement activity

• Japan whistleblowers face crackdown under proposed state secrets law

  5 Dec 2013: Officials who leak 'special state secrets' and journalists who seek to obtain them could face prison if bill is approved this week

• Fukushima two years on: a dirty job with no end in sight

  3 Dec 2013:

  The tsunami that wrecked the Fukushima Daiichi power plant has led to the toughest nuclear cleanup ever. Radioactive water is still poisoning the sea – and it could take 40 years to fix the mess. Is Japan up to the challenge?

• Nuclear regulation in a post-Fukushima world

  25 Nov 2013: Letters: It may be a bit naive to accept that the whole accident was down to a lack of seals on doors
  

• Fukushima: coming clean

  20 Nov 2013:

  Editorial: Is the unthinkable being thought as Britain plans for a new generation of reactors?

• Fukushima nuclear disaster is warning to the world, says power company boss

  19 Nov 2013:

  Exclusive: UK government must learn from Japan's catastrophe as it plans a new generation of plant, nuclear chief claims

• Fukushima workers start removing spent fuel rods

  18 Nov 2013: Nuclear power plant operator insists year-long operation is safe despite fears that any errors could lead to radiation release

• Typhoon Haiyan – how do you rebuild after such destruction?

  15 Nov 2013:

  The devastation caused in the Philippines will take years to repair. Previous efforts in Haiti, Japan and elsewhere point the way, but how can we build back better, asks Vittorio Infante

• Fukushima residents may never go home, say Japanese officials

  12 Nov 2013: Admission deals blow to government assurances that radiation near the Daiichi nuclear plant can be brought down to safe levels

• Fukushima nuclear clean-up enters critical phase

  7 Nov 2013:

  Tokyo Electric Power to begin removing more than 1,500 fuel assemblies from spent fuel pool in unprecedented operation

• Japanese politician causes uproar by giving letter on Fukushima to emperor

  7 Nov 2013: Taro Yamamoto faces criticism after handing note to Emperor Akihito at garden party in breach of strict protocol

• Fukushima Daiichi operator should not handle shutdown, says governing party

  31 Oct 2013: Japan's Liberal Democratic party proposes decommissioning unit independent of the nuclear power plant's operator, Tepco

• Fukushima horse breeder Tokue Hosokawa's farm - in pictures

  Gallery (14 pictures), 27 Oct 2013:

  Tokue Hosokawa was unable to bear the thought of leaving his animals to starve on his farm in Fukushima prefecture, so he stayed put and joined a handful of residents who continue to live in the contaminated homes they were ordered to abandon

• Fukushima horse breeder braves high radiation levels to care for animals

  27 Oct 2013:

  Despite the departure of all his neighbours and the unexplained deaths of some of his stock, Tokue Hosokawa refuses to budge

• Plummeting morale at Fukushima Daiichi as nuclear cleanup takes its toll

  15 Oct 2013:

  Staff on the frontline of operation plagued by health problems and fearful about the future, insiders say

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