Thirty years after Chernobyl former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev remains haunted by the world's greatest ever industrial catastrophe, writes Linda Pentz Gunter. Now 85 and a committed environmentalist, he's still campaigning to bring the failed nuclear experiment to an end before further disasters follow, and encouraging a clean, efficient and renewable global energy economy.
Mikhail Gorbachev: 30 years after Chernobyl, time to phase out nuclear power Linda Pentz Gunter | 26th April 2016 News Nuclear Energy Health Russia Ukraine FOI …
Evolutionary biologist Timothy Mousseau and his colleagues have published 90 studies that prove beyond all doubt the deleterious genetic and developmental effects on wildlife of exposure to radiation from both the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear disasters, writes Linda Pentz Gunter. But all that peer-reviewed science has done little to dampen the 'official' perception of Chernobyl's silent forests as a thriving nature reserve.
Blind mice and bird brains: the silent spring of Chernobyl and Fukushima Linda Pentz Gunter | 25th April 2016 News Nuclear Radiation Energy Health Natural World Ukraine Japan red_forest_hill-cut.jpg …
The Japanese were kept in the dark from the start of the Fukushima disaster about high radiation levels and their dangers to health, writes Linda Pentz Gunter. In order to proclaim the Fukushima area 'safe', the Government increased exposure limits to twenty times the international norm. Soon, many Fukushima refugees will be forced to return home to endure damaging levels of radiation.
No bliss in this ignorance: the great Fukushima nuclear cover-up Linda Pentz Gunter | 20th February 2016 News Nuclear Energy Japan Health fukushima-2-cut.jpg The Japanese were kept in the dark from …
Five years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster began to unfold, the searing psychological effects are still being felt among the 160,000 refugees who fled the fallout, writes Linda Pentz Gunter. But now there's growing pressure to return to contaminated areas declared 'safe' in efforts to whitewash the disaster's impacts. Why the rush? To clear the way for the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics, complete with events in Fukushima City.
The flight from Fukushima - and the grim return Linda Pentz Gunter | 11th March 2016 News Nuclear Energy Radiation Health Society Japan meiji-demo-cut.jpg Five years after the Fukushima nuclear …
Nuclear power is a uniquely hazardous technology that can destroy entire nations, Japan's prime minister at the time of the Fukushima nuclear disaster has warned British MPs. The lessons of from such catastrophes must be heeded in other countries that believe that nuclear fission can be harnessed safely, writes Linda Pentz Gunter - or they, and the world, will reap the whirlwind.
Fukushima PM Naoto Kan: 'if you love your country, let nuclear go!' Linda Pentz Gunter | 12th February 2016 News Nuclear Energy Japan Health kan-tv-cut.jpg Nuclear power is a uniquely hazardous …