Six times, Sergei Belyakov says, he has been through the doorway to hell and back.

The Ukrainian-American was a volunteer ‘jumper’ who helped clean up after the nuclear disaster in the town of Cherno

Radioactivity from Japan's damaged nuclear reactor has been detected in the atmosphere around the Russian capital Moscow, officials from the municipal facility treating nuclear waste said on Friday.

Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said that the stricken nuclear plant at the centre of the world's worst atomic accident since Chernobyl in 1986 must be scrapped, Kyodo news reported on Thursday.

Ka

The president of Tokyo Electric Power Co., which operates Japan's stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, was admitted to hospital on Tuesday evening, the company said on Wednesday.

TEPCO presiden

Workers at Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant plan to spray its grounds with a special resin to prevent further radioactivity being released, a nuclear safety agency official said on Wedne

Traces of radioactive iodine, most likely from Japan's Fukushima nuclear reactors, were detected in New York, news reports said on Wednesday, citing the state's health department.

New York officials

Japan said on Tuesday the government is on 'maximum alert' over a crippled nuclear plant where highly radioactive water has halted repair work and plutonium has been found in the soil.

The earthquake

An acute shortage of toilet paper has hit Tokyo, as Japan's people react to the earthquake and tsunami by stocking up on essentials.

In a posh supermarket in the centre of the capital, a lone sign st

Japanese government today blasted the operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant for its 'absolutely unacceptable' mistake of giving an extremely high radiation reading, as engineers battled

Highly radioactive water has leaked from a reactor at Japan's crippled nuclear complex, the plant's operator said on Monday, while environmental group Greenpeace said it had detected high levels of ra