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Wallace R. Harper's granddaughter, Karen Harper.  (Jane Sponagle/CBC)

From family archive to stage: The remarkable journey of ‘Not for a cat’ play at the Cambridge Festival

31 Mar 2025

A recently rediscovered play, Not for a Cat: A Play for the Nuclear Age, will be premiering at the Cambridge Festival. The play was originally...

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Gone to the dogs

25 May 2021

A story of finding unexpected companionship at the site of the worst nuclear accident in history, Chernobyl.

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The Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami

Opinion: Five years after Fukushima, there are big lessons for nuclear disaster liability

11 Mar 2016

Makoto Takahashi (Department of Geography) discusses the impact of the Fukushima disaster and Japan's nuclear-liability laws.

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Japan of the apocalypse

Facing up to Fukushima

20 May 2011

In the wake of the disaster at the Fukushima reactor, Japan and other nations are re-evaluating their attitude to nuclear energy. Cambridge academic...

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Calls for a global nuclear renaissance in new study

13 Aug 2010

Scientists from the University of Cambridge and Imperial College London today outlined a 20-year master plan for the global renaissance of nuclear...

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