Environmental impact of nuclear power

Restart nuclear attack or accident public information campaigns, the experts say

The radioactive dust could cover the territories of Ukraine, Belarus and EU countries, the statement said.

Occupying troops entered the Chernobyl nuclear power plant area from Belarus. This was announced on the Facebook page of Anton Gerashchenko - adviser to the Ukrainian Minister of Internal Affairs, BGNES reported.

According to British "Sun", there have been 25 safety breaches at the massive nuclear waste plant in the past two years.

Pakistan has defended its record on nuclear safety after the United States sanctioned seven Pakistani companies over alleged links to the nuclear trade, saying the suspicions over the companies should not be used to discredit it.

France has found traces of radioactive cesium on mushrooms imported from Russia, the head of French nuclear regulator ASN said on Thursday, quoted by Reuters. 

Several Balkan countries reported nuclear pollution in their atmosphere during September and October, due to an allegedly unreported incident traced to the Southern Urals, but experts have reassured worried people that the levels of nuclear pollution are not dangerous.

Cloud with low radioactivity has passed over Europe in recent weeks, according to data from the French Institute of Nuclear Safety. According to their study, the radioactive radionuclide Ruthenium-106 was contained in the cloud. The reason for the radioactivity is supposed to be the result of an incident in a nuclear facility in Russia or Kazakhstan, which occurred at the end of September.

A cloud of radioactive pollution over Europe in recent weeks indicates that an accident has happened in a nuclear facility in Russia or Kazakhstan in the last week of September, French nuclear safety institute IRSN said on Thursday.

Authorities raised the alarm after radioactive waste was detected on a truck near Athens, the Environment Ministry said on Monday.

The ministry said it was informed on Sunday that a container transporting waste from the VIOPA industrial park in Keratea, eastern Attica, to the landfill at Fyli, west of Athens, was emitting radioactive iodine, picked up by sensors at the landfill.