Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect and poor maintenance appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 25.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect …
Four years after the radiation leak of cobalt 60 at the Mayapuri scrap yard, there is no way yet to detect radiation in the waste market. Last year, National Green Tribunal had directed the ministry of environment and forests to install scanners at the gates of the market. But that …
Issues relating to protection of the planet continue to capture media headlines and provoke public and political debate. The United Nationsʼ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has referred to global warming as a ʻweapon of mass destructionʼ (IPCC, 2007). However, global warming is not the only earth-threatening issue – there …
Exposure to emissions would be fatal within hours, say authorities The crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant has radiation leaks strong enough to deliver a fatal dose within hours, Japanese authorities have revealed, as the government prepares to step in to help contain leaks of highly toxic water at the …
Japan's nuclear crisis escalated to its worst level in two years on Wednesday, with its nuclear watchdog saying it feared more tanks were leaking contaminated water and China expressing its shock over the disaster. Japan's nuclear regulator also said it feared the disaster exceeded the ability of the plant's operator, …
Two years after the Fukushima disaster started unfolding on 11 March 2011, its impact on the global nuclear industry has become increasingly visible. Global electricity generation from nuclear plants dropped by a historic 7 percent in 2012, adding to the record drop of 4 percent in 2011. This World Nuclear …
Toxic radioactive substances were detected again in groundwater at the Fukushima nuclear plant, its Japanese operator said on Sunday. Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) said tests showed that tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen, was present at levels 10 times the permitted rate. “From test samples on July 5... we …
The Department of Energy on Wednesday put forward a long-term plan to extract and ship low-level radioactive waste from leaking tanks at Washington state's Hanford Nuclear Reservation to a dump in New Mexico. The announcement came two weeks after Washington Governor Jay Inslee publicly announced that six waste tanks were …
After a brief lull, protests against the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KKNPP) were revived both in India and Sri Lanka with a protest being held in Colombo yesterday (5). Hundreds of anti-nuclear activists held an agitation in Colombo in front of the Indian High Commission, organized by the Greens4Chenge Environment …
A vote is being held on whether to go ahead with a search for a site to store high level nuclear waste. Executive members of Cumbria County and one of either Allerdale or Copeland Borough Councils must agree if "Stage 4" of the process is to go ahead. This would …
Keen on avoiding community opposition of the kind seen for the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant, the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) will launch a sensitisation initiative ahead of starting work on two more 500 MW reactors in Kalpakkam, IGCAR Director S. C. Chetal said on Wednesday. Addressing the …
The Supreme Court today reserved its order on a plea seeking a stay on commissioning of the Kudankulam nuclear plant till all safety measures are put in place. Following marathon arguments spanning three months, a Bench of Mr Justice KS Radhakrishnan and Mr Justice Dipak Misra reserved its order on …
Allaying the apprehensions of the people of Kolar in Karnataka, the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd. (NPCIL) on Tuesday submitted in the Supreme Court that no decision had been taken to dump nuclear waste in the defunct Kolar Gold Mines of Bharat Gold Mines Ltd. During the hearing of …
The Centre on Tuesday sought to quell protests by locals in Kolar, Karnataka, against reports of earmarking abandoned gold mines of the district for dumping nuclear waste. The government clarified before the Supreme Court that it was not considering the spot for such purposes. “The NPCIL is filing the present …
Across the former Soviet Union harmful agricultural chemicals were either buried or improperly stored. Now the process of clean-up has begun At Tegul'det (population 3,000), a village in the south-east corner of Tomsk oblast, it takes a lot to upset the residents, busy hunting, fishing and preening their vegetable patches, …
A former employee of the Bharath Gold Mines Limited (BGML), Panir Selvan, 57, was the latest to succumb to the deadly disease, silicosis, when he died on Friday at the Kolar Gold Fields (KGF). The disease has already killed hundreds who worked in the deep pits of KGF to extract …
Several organisations and political outfits in Kolar have strongly opposed the Centre’s decision to dump the spent fuel from the Kudankulam nuclear power plant in Tamil Nadu in the now-defunct Kolar Gold Mines in Karnataka. In a submission before the Supreme Court on Wednesday, the Nuclear Power Corporation of India …
Rumours that waste from Koodankulam nuclear power plant near Chennai will be dumped at the gold mine pits here has sent shock waves in this town. It is said that Solicitor General R Nariman submitted an affidavit to the Supreme Court on Wednesday that the Central government has decided to …
South Korea is to hold public consultations on where to store waste nuclear fuel as storage capacity at its reactors is reaching full capacity, the government said on Tuesday. The plan to set up an independent consultative body comes as South Korea grapples with its worst nuclear crisis ever after …
There are lessons to be learnt from Japan, given the dilemma it finds itself in. Should it continue running its 50 nuclear power plants or do away with them within a specific time frame? Opinions, after the Fukushima disaster, are sharply divided. The latest attempt by the Japanese government to …
