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Radiation

Confronting grief, Part 3: Hope crests and crashes
Opinion
/ 15 April 2023

Confronting grief, Part 3: Hope crests and crashes

Mbali’s second round of treatment first seemed to have worked. And then, six years after her first diagnosis of leukaemia, we had to face what no family is ever ready to face

By Nontobeko Hlela
Limpopo: 0. Mpumalanga: 0. That’s how many radiation oncologists these provinces have
Article
/ 17 May 2018

Limpopo: 0. Mpumalanga: 0. That’s how many radiation oncologists these provinces have

Meanwhile, a lone specialist in the North West caters for 3.7-million people as four provinces are forced to send patients to Gauteng.

By Joan Van Dyk
Why decommissioning Koeberg nuclear plant won’t be easy
Article
/ 28 January 2018

Why decommissioning Koeberg nuclear plant won’t be easy

For South Africa decommissioning its nuclear plant Koeberg is a reality that cannot be ignored much longer

By Hartmut Winkler
Fukushima reactor ‘ice wall’ nearly finished
Article
/ 22 August 2017

Fukushima reactor ‘ice wall’ nearly finished

Fukushima’s operator on Tuesday started freezing the last section of a $320 million ice wall designed to combat widespread water contamination.

By Agence France Presse
Wi-fi market penetration linked to pregnancy
Article
/ 25 June 2015

Wi-fi market penetration linked to pregnancy

Amidst accusations of scaremongering, a Chinese company made a router that they state is safer for pregnant women.

By Staff Reporter
Battle over cellphone masts in Northcliff
Article
/ 26 July 2013

Battle over cellphone masts in Northcliff

Northcliff residents are going to war over the towers littering their view and – they say – their bodies. Is the radiation strong enough to hurt them?

By Sarah Wild
Japanese flee Fukushima in fear of nuclear radiation
Article
/ 22 December 2012

Japanese flee Fukushima in fear of nuclear radiation

Okinawa is about as far away as one can get from Fukushima without leaving Japan, and that is why Minaho Kubota is here.

By Yuri Kageyama and Sapa Ap
Fukushima’s radioactive water leaks into Pacific Ocean
Article
/ 6 December 2011

Fukushima’s radioactive water leaks into Pacific Ocean

Large quantities of radioactive water from Fukushima might have found its way into the Pacific Ocean and experts believe it could contain strontium.

By Staff Reporter
Japan nuclear plant stabilising ‘step by step’
Article
/ 12 April 2011

Japan nuclear plant stabilising ‘step by step’

Japan said on Tuesday that the tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear plant is gradually stabilising and the amount of radiation being released is falling.

By Staff Reporter
Japan works to avoid explosion at nuclear plant
Article
/ 7 April 2011

Japan works to avoid explosion at nuclear plant

Workers at Japan’s stricken nuclear plant on Thursday pumped nitrogen into a crippled reactor in a bid to prevent a possible explosion.

By Staff Reporter
Japan plugs leak from nuclear plant
Article
/ 6 April 2011

Japan plugs leak from nuclear plant

Workers at Japan’s crippled atomic power plant on Wednesday plugged a hole spewing highly radioactive water into the ocean.

By Harumi Ozawa
Pressure on Japan to widen nuclear exclusion zone
Article
/ 31 March 2011

Pressure on Japan to widen nuclear exclusion zone

Pressure is on Japan to expand the evacuation zone around a stricken nuclear power plant after high levels of radiation were found outside the zone.

By Chisa Fujioka and Chizu Nomiyama
Japan mulls reactor covers in nuclear crisis
Article
/ 30 March 2011

Japan mulls reactor covers in nuclear crisis

Japan was on Wednesday weighing a series of creative solutions to its unfolding nuclear disaster.

By Shingo Ito
Calm urged as radiation spreads across Asia
Article
/ 29 March 2011

Calm urged as radiation spreads across Asia

Small amounts of radiation from Japan’s leaking nuclear power plant have spread across Asia, authorities said on Tuesday.

By Karl Malakunas
Radiation leak worsens at Japan nuclear plant
Article
/ 28 March 2011

Radiation leak worsens at Japan nuclear plant

Highly contaminated water has escaped from a reactor building at Japan’s stricken nuclear plant and may leak into the ocean, the operator says.

By Huw Griffith
Mushroom-picking and fishing: Life in Chernobyl zone
Article
/ 28 March 2011

Mushroom-picking and fishing: Life in Chernobyl zone

Hundreds of mainly elderly Ukrainians live within a restricted region around the Chernobyl plant, dispelling the area’s reputation as a dead zone.

By Anya Tsukanova
Pounding rain fuels radiation fears in Japan
Article
/ 21 March 2011

Pounding rain fuels radiation fears in Japan

Driving rain on Monday disrupted rescue efforts in Japan and compounded the misery of disaster survivors now fearing radioactive fallout.

By Hiroshi Hiyama
Japan works to avert nuclear-plant meltdown
Article
/ 17 March 2011

Japan works to avert nuclear-plant meltdown

Japanese military helicopters dumped water on an overheating nuclear plant on Thursday while the United States expressed growing alarm.

By Linda Sieg and Chisa Fujioka
Concern grows over Japan nuclear crisis
Article
/ 17 March 2011

Concern grows over Japan nuclear crisis

Concern over Japan’s ability to contain its nuclear crisis grew on Thursday, as military helicopters dumped water on to an overheating power plant.

By Shingo Ito
Crisis deepens at quake-hit Japan nuclear plant
Article
/ 16 March 2011

Crisis deepens at quake-hit Japan nuclear plant

Japan’s nuclear crisis deepened on Wednesday with another fire at a quake-hit atomic power plant and a radiation spike.

By Freytas Tamura and Kimiko De
Japan braces for potential radiation catastrophe
Article
/ 15 March 2011

Japan braces for potential radiation catastrophe

Japan faced a potential catastrophe on Tuesday after a nuclear power plant exploded and sent low levels of radiation floating towards Tokyo.

By Shinichi Saoshiro and Chisa Fujioka
Humanitarian crisis deepens in Japan
Article
/ 15 March 2011

Humanitarian crisis deepens in Japan

A widening cloud of radiation on Tuesday added to the misery of millions of people in Japan’s devastated north-east.

By Staff Reporter
Japan grapples with nuclear crisis
Article
/ 14 March 2011

Japan grapples with nuclear crisis

Japan scrambled to avert a meltdown at a nuclear plant on Monday after a hydrogen explosion at one reactor and exposure of fuel rods at another.

By Taiga Uranaka and Ki Joon Kwon

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