Can Diplomacy Solve Iranian Nuclear Crisis? Top officials say there is a diplomatic path to avoid a military conflict. Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi says there are two alternatives - engagement or confrontation. The Islamic Republic of Ir...
The chief U.N. nuclear inspector begins another to visit to Iran on Monday, saying his highest priority is getting answers to allegations of military dimensions to the Iranian nuclear program. Speaking before he left Vienna on Sunday, International A...
The United Nations' nuclear watchdog agency has passed a resolution that cites deep and increasing concern about Iran's nuclear activities. The 35-member board of the International Atomic Energy Agency approved the resolution Friday, about a week aft...
A scare in Japan over beef contaminated with radioactivity spread on Sunday, with more areas of the country reporting tainted meat. Japanese media say meat from 132 cattle that ate straw contaminated with extremely high levels of radioactive cesium h...
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Modern Geiger counters don't click. As is the case with so many other devices, they have gone digital. At least that is true for the high-tech Japanese Geiger counters here. But they still measure radiation（放射） exposure in the quaint-sounding...
Experts and diplomats are predicting Japan's recent deadly earthquake and tsunami, along with its ongoing nuclear reactor crisis, will not have too much of an effect on Japan itself in the long-term, but rather on energy policies in other countries....
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. The crisis at the damaged Fukushima Dai-Ichi Nuclear Power Station in northern Japan has raised worries about radiation risks. We spoke Tuesday with Jonathan Links, an expert in radiation health sciences...
U.S. President Barack Obama says he believes nuclear power is an important source of energy in the United States. Mr. Obama said in a television interview Tuesday that nuclear plants are designed to withstand certain levels of natural disasters, incl...
Workers at a nuclear plant in Japan are battling to prevent a meltdown in one of the reactors, following the massive earthquake that struck the north-east part of the country on Friday. The latest government figures figures put the death toll from th...
