‘Chernobyl.’ The name incites haunting memories of the world’s worst nuclear disaster that forced thousands to flee, leaving behind homes and livelihoods in the April of 1986. Ever since, the silent, overgrown Ukrainian town of Pripyat has been frozen in […]
A nuclear reactor in northern Japan on Wednesday became the first among those damaged by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami to get final restart approval, with support from regional authorities. All of Japan’s nuclear power stations were shut down after […]