WHO, UNDP, UNEP and UNICEF have partnered to create a new compendium of 500 actions aimed at reducing death and diseases driven by environmental risk factors, the first such resource to unite this expertise from across the UN system. Environmental pollution and other environmental risks cause 24 per cent of …
Radiation from Japan’s 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster has for the first time been detected along a North American shoreline, though at levels too low to pose a significant threat to human or marine life, scientists said on Monday. Trace amounts of Cesium-134 and Cesium-137 were detected in samples collected on …
The central government has not been able to identify half of some 2,400 owners of land in Fukushima Prefecture where it plans to build storage facilities for contaminated soil from the nuclear crisis, sources said. The government intends to build the complex on around 16 sq. km of land in …
The increasing contamination of the city's sewerage and by injections of toxic chemicals into drains has led Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) to invite Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) to treat its sludge. A facility will be set up in Ahmedabad by BARC which will treat sludge with gamma radiation to …
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Monday it will release all available radiation data associated with its Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, in response to criticism over its failure to swiftly announce leaks of radioactive rainwater into the sea. According to Tepco, the company had a policy of disclosing radiation …
A radiation leak at an underground nuclear waste dump in New Mexico was caused by “chemically incompatible” contents, including cat litter, that reacted inside a barrel of waste causing it to rupture, scientists said on Thursday. The US Energy Department report on last year’s radiation accident at the Waste Isolation …
Government auditors say Tepco has wasted more than a third of the ¥190 billion in taxpayer money allocated for cleaning up Fukushima No. 1. A Board of Audit report describes various expensive machines and untested measures that ended in failure. It also says the cleanup work has been dominated by …
4 years after a tsunami caused devastation and a nuclear disaster in Japan’s Fukushima prefecture, life is far from restored for the local residents evacuated from the area. Justin McCurry reports.
The Central Information Commission has pulled up the environment ministry for providing "false and misleading" information that it had conducted no study on the harmful effects of mobile radiations. It has also asked the ministry to explain why it has allowed unrestricted installation of mobile towers and not formulated any …
HONG KONG — A sample of powdered tea imported from the Japanese prefecture of Chiba, just southeast of Tokyo, had 9.3 times the legal maximum level of radioactive cesium 137 allowed in food, the Hong Kong government announced late Thursday evening. Hong Kong’s legal limits for radioactive material in food …
A Hiroshima-based research institute plans to conduct lifelong health monitoring of people who worked at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant after the tsunami-triggered meltdown disaster struck there on March 11, 2011, it was learned on Wednesday. This will be the first such long-running survey on the people who worked …
Madura: Noted social activist Medha Patkar today joined hands with MDMK leader Vaiko to oppose the proposed neutrino observatory project in Theni district, claiming that it would cause large-scale environmental damages. "Nature will suffer major damages if India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) is set up. Radiation from it will affect people …
In "Tunnel Vision blocks neutrino lab progress" (Feb 23), T Jayaraman, a physicist by training and professor at the school of habitat studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, said opposition to the proposed Indian Neutrino Observatory (INO) in Theni has no scientific basis. He denied that the project that will …
The Government on Thursday assured Parliament that no provision related to compensation under the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Act (CLND) was waived in the recent India-US agreement and said the provision of Rs1,500 crore is for immediate compensation only. Making this clear while fielding questions on the Civil Nuclear …
The climatic impact of CO2 and other greenhouse gases is usually quantified in terms of radiative forcing, calculated as the difference between estimates of the Earth’s radiation field from pre-industrial and present-day concentrations of these gases. Radiative transfer models calculate that the increase in CO2 since 1750 corresponds to a …
FUKUSHIMA – Fukushima Gov. Masao Uchibori said Tuesday he will allow the transfer of radioactive soil to a provisional site in the prefecture. The provisional site is part of a planned interim storage facility for soil and other radioactive waste from decontamination work in the prefecture following the March 2011 …
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Tuesday it has failed to disclose leaks into the sea of rainwater containing radioactive substances from a drainage ditch linked to a building at its stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant although it became aware of the leaks in April last year. The building …
Sensors at the Fukushima nuclear plant have detected a fresh leak of highly radioactive water to the sea, the plant’s operator announced on Sunday, highlighting difficulties in decommissioning the crippled plant. Tokyo Electric Power Co said the sensors, which were rigged to a gutter that pours rain and ground water …
Since 1990, scientists have used complex models to predict how climate change and manmade greenhouse emissions will affect the world. But a team of experts - including an astrophysicist, statistician, and geography professor – has claimed these models ‘very greatly exaggerate’ the effects of global warming. Using a simpler, solar-based …
A robot developed by a UK start-up is helping to locate hazardous radiation sources at the scene of the Fukushima disaster, the world’s worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl. Createc, a small imaging company based in Cumbria, has developed camera technology called N-Visage for robots that can detect and draw a …
For the first time since the triple meltdown at the Fukushima No. 1 plant throttled the agriculture-reliant prefecture, all rice produced there last year cleared the required radiation tests. The Fukushima Prefectural Government last year checked every bag of rice produced in the prefecture — some 10.75 million bags — …
