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 …
Shillong, April 19: The preliminary report on the cause of the death of fishes in Kynshi and Rilang rivers, West Khasi Hills, has ruled out the possibility of radiation from uranium ore exploration. The report said the two possible reasons are coal mining and spread of toxic substances in the …
Limits for towers tightened to a tenth of the existing exposure level The new and stringent radiation emission rules for mobile phones and towers, which will for the first time stipulate emission levels for handsets sold in India and make it compulsory for these levels to be displayed on phones …
Sri Lanka issuing a statement regretted the Indian media reports linking Sri Lanka's concerns of the safety of nuclear power plants in India to India's vote against Sri Lanka for the UN resolution at the Human Rights Council Session in Geneva last month. The Chairman of Sri Lanka's Atomic Energy …
The Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011, resulted in unprecedented radioactivity releases from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plants to the Northwest Pacific Ocean. Results are presented here from an international study of radionuclide contaminants in surface and subsurface waters, as well as in zooplankton and fish, off …
Shillong, April 15: Scientists from the Meghalaya State Pollution Control Board will test the waters of Kynshi and Rilang rivers in West Khasi Hills to ascertain its quality following the death of thousands of fishes since Friday. The Khasi Students’ Union (KSU) attributed the unprecedented incident to the exploratory drilling …
Sri Lanka on Monday said it had not objected to the Kudankulam nuclear power project in Tamil Nadu and underlined that India has every right to use nuclear technology in meeting the requirements of electrical energy. “Sri Lanka has not brought up the issue of the safety of Kudankulam Nuclear …
Sri Lanka's Power and Energy Ministry is currently conducting a survey in the Mannar coastal area to determine the baseline radiation levels in the area. Power and Energy Minister Champika Ranawaka told ColomboPage that the baseline survey is carried out in the coastal belt between Mannar and the Jaffna peninsula. …
Sri Lanka's Power and Energy Ministry is currently conducting a survey in the Mannar coastal area to determine the baseline radiation levels in the area. Power and Energy Minister Champika Ranawaka told ColomboPage that the baseline survey is carried out in the coastal belt between Mannar and the Jaffna peninsula. …
The government will shortly make strong representations to the International Atomic Energy Authority (IAEA), at its technical sessions in September, over the Koodankulam nuclear power plant, situated 360 kilometres North of Tamil Nadu in Southern India, which could have deleterious effects on Sri Lanka in terms of radiation. Currently, a …
India has agreed to a public discussion with Sri Lanka on safety aspects of the nuclear plants being built in South India, reports in the local media said today. India wants to allay any Lankan fears on the issue, The Times of India quoted official sources as saying. The Indian …
Radioactive iodine was found in kelp off the US West Coast following last year’s earthquake-triggered Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown, according to a new study. It was already known that radioactive iodine 131 (131-I), carried in the atmosphere, made it across the Pacific within days of the March 11, 2011 tsunami …
Symptoms of a mysterious disease that has killed scores of seals off Alaska and infected walruses are now showing up in polar bears, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said on Friday. Nine polar bears from the Beaufort Sea region near Barrow were found with patchy hair loss and oozing sores …
Japan's government will announce soon its contingency plans for dealing with nuclear accidents to ease public concerns about restarting reactors closed since the Fukushima radiation crisis last year, Trade Minister Yukio Edano said on Tuesday. Contingency plans for Kansai Electric Power Co's two reactors, which are at the most advanced …
Sri Lanka today expressed concern over possible impact of radiation from India's nuclear power plants located in the southern region, as it prepares to raise the issue with global atomic watchdog IAEA. The official raising of concern with the International Atomic Energy is to be made in September, the Power …
It is one year since the great eastern Japan earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear disaster ravaged Japan. How is the country coping? Shriya Mohan travels to Tokyo and Fukushima to find out. My first impression of Japan, after landing at the Haneda international airport in the wee hours of the …
A study on the impact of radiation on the health condition of people living around Kaiga Nuclear Power Generation Station has commenced. Kaiga nuclear power plant. The survey is being conducted by Tata Memorial Cancer Research Institute, Mumbai, and the Community Health Centre of Kasturba Medical College, Manipal. The people …
Japan should aspire to phase out nuclear power completely, its energy minister said on Friday, even as the government struggles to persuade a wary public that it is safe to restart reactors after the world's worst nuclear crisis in 25 years. Yukio Edano, whose trade portfolio makes him responsible for …
New Delhi: A letter from the office of India’s Central Information Commission to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh recently raises serious concerns over two proposals to amend the Right to Information Act through the Nuclear Safety Regulatory Authority (NSRA) Bill 2011, which was introduced in the Lok Sabha last September. The …
Japan said on Friday it would lift entry bans on some cities in Fukushima prefecture that had been designated no-go zones due to their proximity to a nuclear power plant crippled by a powerful earthquake and tsunami last March. After the natural disasters triggered the worst atomic accident since Chernobyl …
