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Currently Director of Risk Control at France's CEA, Edwige Bonnevie has also worked in the fields of aeronautics and nuclear deterrence. In this video interview, learn more about her fascinating career and her taste for challenge.

Six months after the disaster that caused three meltdowns, efforts to stabilize the Japanese nuclear power plant continue.

Five months after the start of the Fukushima disaster,Monique and Raymond Sené join with me on this blog to discern what we chose to call "the great lesson France has to learn from Fukushima” - the title of this post.

Earlier this month, Kazuma Obara became the first photojournalist to gain unauthorised access to the power plant and produced an exclusive glimpse of life inside the facility.

Every day large amounts of radioactive waste is created by nuclear power plants is. In Finland the world’s first permanent repository is being hewn out of solid rock that must last 100,000 years as this is how long the waste remains hazardous.

Japan's earthquake-triggered crisis has focused attention on the seismic risk to Armenia's aging Soviet-style nuclear plant.

Falling Forest explores the implications of nuclear power and its relationship to natural ecosystems. Our understanding of this relationship is in constant evolution.

What if nuclear reactors were designed from first principles, simply as a means to produce power with as little risk as possible?

On March 15, 33 experts from the Department’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) arrived in Japan. They report their measurement and radiation data monitoring.

The Japanese government has issued the evacuation order on March 12 for the residents living within the 20 kilometer radius of the Fukushima nuclear power plant.