Serious differences have emerged between the Centre and Telangana Government over uranium explorations in the Amrabad Tiger Reserve, spread across Mahbubnagar and Nalgonda districts in southern part of the state. The state Forest Department has said it will not allow any exploration that interferes with the natural habitat of the …
North Korea has finally acknowledged having a secret nuclear arms programme involving enriched uranium. The plan is in violation of the 1994 Agreed Framework deal under which the Communist state had promised to freeze its nuclear arms totally. It was supposed to eventually dismantle its nuclear programme in exchange for …
Iraq has accused Britain and the us of not only causing cancer but also blocking medical supplies crucial to the treatment of cancer to its people. In a letter to un secretary-general Kofi Annan, Iraqi foreign minister Naji Sabri said depleted uranium ammunition used by the us-led forces during the …
lake Ontario of Canada is in a perilous condition due to leakage of nuclear waste from a facility managed by Cameco Corporation, the world's biggest supplier of uranium. The leakage of toxic substances such as arsenic and uranium from the storage site of Cameco at Port Granby has been going …
britain has resumed test firing of depleted uranium (du) shells. The test firings were banned after there was a public outcry of its health effects. The tests were conducted at the Dundrennan military range, off the coast of Scotland. Controversy about the health hazards sparked off after five Italian soldiers, …
Nuclear waste is generated in uranium mines, nuclear power plants and research reactors. Once the uranium ore is extracted at the Jaduguda mines in Bihar, it is sent to a facility in Hyderabad for processing. Earlier, the waste was dumped in a pond nearby. But as it contaminated some wells …
in one of the worst nuclear accidents in Japan's history, on September 30, high levels of radiation leaked from a uranium processing plant at Tokaimura, some 140 kilometres from Tokyo, exposing around 50 people to radiation, three of whom are said to be in a serious condition. Prior to this …
the traditional owners of the Jabiluka uranium mine site in Australia won a reprieve in their battle to halt the project when the company, Energy Resources Australia ( era ), "temporarily' suspended work. The company said the decision to stop work on the underground tunnel to the ore body was …
SIXTEEN British ex-servicepersons, who served in the 1991 Gulf War, have tested positive for depleted uranium contamination, according to the National Gulf Veterans' and Families' ssociation (ngvfa). Depleted uranium poisoning is the cause of a variety of illnesses veterans are suffering from since the war against Iraq, said a spokesperson …
people living in the villages near the Uranium Corporation of India Ltd (ucil), Jaduguda, Bihar, are suffering from a large number of radiation-induced diseases, deformities, mental retardation as well as disturbances in reproductive physiology. This was revealed in a recent survey by a team led by B N Pandey of …
Uranium deposits have been found in "fractured controlled mineralisation" in granite rocks near Tshundapalli and Mullapalli in the Cuddapah district of Andhra Pradesh. While such deposits have been found earlier in Russia, France, Namibia and the Ukraine, this is the first find in India. The deposits were discovered by the …
READ this carefully and between the lines: "British Nuclear Fuels (BNF) has just lost a multimillion pound German contract for its Thorp reprocessing plant because of pressures from the anti-nuclear lobby." Effectively, this means that that legendary part of zealous anti-nuclear mythography the world over, the reprocessing plant at Sellafield …
PAKISTAN plans to expand the controversial uranium enrichment plant at Kahuta near Islamabad to provide fuel for a nuclear power reactor being bought from China, according to senior government officials. Abdul Qader Khan, director of the research laboratories at Kahuta, said, "We believe that by the time we have the …
The Meghalaya government is taking no chances even though uranium mining in the state has been given a clean chit by a high-level team led by Atomic Energy Commission chairperson R Chidambaram. Chief minister S C Marak says he will send a multi-party delegation to the uranium mines in Jaduguda, …
THE FRENCH government's decision to stop supplying enriched uranium for the nuclear reactor in Tarapur, 100 km north of Bombay, has thrown the Indian establishment into a tizzy. Some department of atomic energy (DAE) officials insist the French announcement is merely a ploy to make India sign the nuclear non-proliferation …
THE HIMALAYAN-Tibetan rivers have been found to be a major source of marine uranium and scientists estimate they contribute about 3,000 tonnes, or, about 25 per cent of the total, worldwide marine uranium. The Ganga and the Brahmaputra together, they estimate, dump about 1,000 tonnes of dissolved uranium annually in …
RESIDENTS of Domiasiat and Wahkaliar villages near Cherrapunji in Meghalaya have formed village action committees to resist a proposed uranium mine in the region. Students, welfare organisations and opposition parties in the state have joined hands to form the Khasi Jaintia Environment Protection Council (KJEPC) to support them. KJEPC convener …
