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After the Fukushima disaster, a new generation has drawn inspiration from the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street.

No matter how appalling the catastrophe, the nuclear industry will insist on the safety of nuclear power.

Japan’s artists and writers respond to the 3/11 disaster.

3/11 will go down in history as a day that fundamentally changed the environment of modern Japan.

For those who grew up in Fukushima, the disaster didn't just destroy their home town, it stole their childhood memories.

Survivors of the first nuclear tragedies are now campaigning not only against nuclear weapons, but now also against the dangers of nuclear power.

The spent-fuel pools at our reactors, containing thousands of tons of poorly protected but highly radioactive waste, are a catastrophe waiting to happen.

On April 26, 1986, a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukraine exploded, precipitating the worst nuclear disaster in history. Now, on the twenty fifth anniversary of the explosion, it is worth revisiting this horrific episode and to reflect on the lessons we still have not learned.

Some Greens have embraced nuclear power as an alternative to fossil fuels, but the economics just aren't there.