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 …
Tokyo/Fukushima: As Japan grappled with its worst atomic crisis in decades, premier Naoto Kan on Thursday said the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant must be scrapped as radiation seeping into sea tested 4,385 times the legal limit, but authorities ruled out expanding the evacuation zone. French President Nicolas Sarkozy visited the …
Radiation Level At Record High Tokyo: Radioactive iodine thousands of times higher than the permissible safety limit was discovered on Wednesday in the sea near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Japan
The Chernobyl disaster still has much to tell us about the long-term risks of low-level radiation exposure. But only if the necessary follow-up studies are supported. (Editorial) http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v471/n7340/full/471547a.html
Reassurances from ‘experts’ on the safety of nuclear power will not wash, says Colin Macilwain. The Fukushima crisis raises genuine questions. http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110330/full/471549a.html
In a week that has seen little good news about the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors, the latest data on radioisotope fallout from the plant is so far offering a glimmer of hope. http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110330/full/471555a.html
Twenty-five years after the nuclear disaster, the clean-up grinds on and health studies are faltering. Are there lessons for Japan? http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110330/full/471562a.html
Japan's government vowed Tuesday to overhaul nuclear safety standards once its radiation-leaking reactor complex is under control, admitting that its safeguards were insufficient to protect the plant against the March 11 tsunami. The struggle to contain radiation at the complex has unfolded with near-constant missteps, including two workers drenched Tuesday …
Tokyo: Sharply elevated radiation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex on Sunday raised the possibility of spreading contamination and forced an evacuation of a part of one of the buildings at the damaged plant, but Japanese utility officials later called the readings a mistake. The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency …
Year After Radioactive Material Scarred Scrapyard, No Safety Measures Taken New Delhi: A year has passed since the Mayapuri radiation incident but shopkeepers in one of India
In the wake of the nuclear crisis in Japan, Germany has temporarily shut down seven of its reactors and China, which is building more nuclear power plants than the rest of the world combined, has suspended approval for all new facilities. But this reaction may be more motivated by politics …
Mumbai: Indians face no danger, at least for the moment, of any radioactive contamination if they come in contact with imported Japanese products like cars, TV sets, electronic items and other consumer goods. The firm assurance was given on Thursday by chairman of the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) S …
Even as the Japanese authorities began distributing bottled water for the estimated 80,000 children less than a year old in the Tokyo area, city authorities said Thursday that levels of a radioactive isotope found in water samples from one purification plant had fallen by more than half in the last …
On March 11th, Japan was hit by one of the biggest natural cataclysms ever observed – a magnitude 9 earthquake on the Richter scale and a tsunami with a wave more than 10 meters high. The tsunami has resulted in a serious nuclear accident in the Fukushima power plant operated …
Faint traces of very low levels of radiation from the stricken nuclear complex in Japan have been detected in Sacramento, European officials reported on Friday, bringing the distant atomic crisis to American shores for the first time. The readings, picked up by highly sensitive detectors set up to monitor clandestine …
Japan has faced adversity before. But even amid radiation and rubble, the nation's not hopeless, says William Pesek AT HIS FIRST press conference, Prime Minister Naoto Kan called it a crisis, and for an hour or so that felt right. Then the videos began
