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 …
Nearly eight months after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident scattered radioactive material over surrounding communities, Japan still is struggling to figure out how to clean up the mess, exacerbating fears about health risks and fanning mistrust of the government. Thirty miles away from Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, the …
Japanese officials in towns around the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant reacted guardedly to plans announced on Saturday to build facilities to store radioactive waste from the clean-up around the plant within three years. Saturday's announcement, seven months after the world's worst nuclear disaster in 25 years, came as towns near …
The Centre has announced the setting up of a 15-member group of experts to interact with stakeholders in a bid to allay widespread apprehensions about the upcoming Kudankulam nuclear power project. The Department of Atomic Energy’s decision to constitute the expert group, which is being seen as a neutral body …
Texas Governor Rick Perry has sidelined a state commissioner opposed to expanding the scope of a nuclear-waste landfill while appointing a new board to oversee a project owned by one of his biggest political donors. Perry, who tops the list of candidates seeking the Republican nomination to run for U.S. …
A rare earthquake on America's east coast last month caused half the radioactive waste containers at a nuclear plant to move several centimeters but they were not damaged, operators said Thursday. Of the 53 giant containers storing waste at North Anna power station in central Virginia near the epicenter of …
Some 800m below the town of Gorleben, northern Germany, salt glistens like ice underfoot. The man in charge of the nation’s nuclear waste is walking through caverns carved into a huge salt formation that could one day entomb 17,000 tonnes of highly radioactive detritus. “Walk carefully, salt is slippery,” says …
The earthquake that shook the East Coast last week rattled casks holding radioactive nuclear waste at a Virginia plant, moving them as much as 4.5 inches from their original position, the plant's operator said. The 5.8-magnitude quake shifted 25 casks, each 16 feet tall and weighing 115 tons, on a …
Leakage of radioactive elements SHILLONG: The current controversy about leakage of radioactive wastes from Delhi University which claimed one life and has affected many should make all other universities using radioactive matter for experiments to sit up and take notice. According to scientists in the North Eastern Hill University (NEHU) …
New Delhi: India has now put in place three laboratories that will exclusively test food samples coming into the country from Japan for radioactive contamination. The Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) has informed the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) that it has granted accreditation to three labs
While the radiation levels exceeded the limits allowed by the govt, an official said that the products `pose no immediate health risk' and more testing was being done on other foods. Japan said radia March 19: Japan said radiation levels in spinach and milk from farms near its tsunami-crippled nuclear …
Global warming and the established responsibility of the anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases represent a strong push towards the construction of new nuclear power plants (NPPs) to cope with the growing energy needs. The toxicity of nuclear waste associated with the extreme difficulty of their disposal and increase in cancer …
Radioactive material is carried by moisture in the air. It can then be inhaled, get washed down by rain into the sea and onto soil, and contaminate crops, marine life and drinking water Radioactive materials spewed into the air by Japan
Energy markets are undergoing major change. They have to cope with a new economic environment and, at the same time, a new energy context. Indeed, on the one hand, energy markets are undergoing deregulation with the aim of opening them to competition. They are also submitted to priva-tisation policies, which …
Indian nuclear operators and scientists on Sunday said the failure of Japanese nuclear reactors was mainly due to the devastating tsunami, which led to external electricity failure and termed the incident "rare combination of events." They also commended their counterparts in Japan for carrying out an excellent procedure in the …
??Plans for undersea nuclear power reactors around the coast of France could see a boom in uptake of the technology - but serious questions about costs and waste disposal remain unanswered.
