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VIENNA (Reuters) – Staff on duty at Chernobyl’s Russian-held radioactive waste facilities have not been rotated in four days and Ukraine cannot say when that will change because of fighting in the ...

The finding came after readings were taken this week at the site, which Russian forces had occupied but withdrew from in late March. By Matthew Mpoke Bigg Radiation levels are elevated in some parts ...

VIENNA, April 1 (Reuters) - U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi will lead a mission to Chernobyl as soon as possible, he said on Friday, after Ukraine said Russian troops had left the ...

The press conference will start at 12:00 on Tuesday, 6 September, in Saal E, Austria Centre, Bruno-Kreisky-Platz 1 A-1220 Vienna. Simultaneous interpretation from/to Russian/English will be made ...

If envy is a deadly sin then many of us were guilty of it last month when we congregated in Manchester, England. We were there for the Beyond Nuclear conference on the terrible legacies of the ...

VIENNA — Nearly two decades after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster spread radioactive fallout across much of Europe, a United Nations study has concluded that the health effects have been far smaller ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: A view shows a wooden house on fire in Lyudvynivka in Kiev Region VIENNA (Reuters) - Radiation from fires that have ...

VIENNA (Reuters) - Greed in the nuclear industry and corporate influence over the U.N. watchdog for atomic energy may doom Japan to a spreading nuclear disaster, one of the men brought in to clean up ...

The nation’s 15 operating reactors have also been assessed as safe — at least for the moment. By William J. Broad The failed Chernobyl nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine as well as the nation’s ...

VIENNA (Reuters) – Systems monitoring nuclear material at the radioactive waste facilities at Chernobyl in Ukraine, which were taken over by Russian forces last month, have stopped transmitting data ...