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 …
It is one year since the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake generated a tsunami that ripped apart the north-eastern sea-coast of Japan leaving over 20,000 people dead and the Fukushima nuclear power plant damaged. The triple disaster is estimated to have caused losses worth $235 billion according to World Bank. Pictures …
Bathinda: A nuclear physicist, Hardev Singh Vir, would be conducting an independent study on the source of uranium and to ascertain whether it is to blame for the high incidence of cancer cases in the area. For the study, Dr Virk has collected drinking water samples from several villages, including …
Atomic Energy Authority officials, along with other stakeholders, collected samples in the deep sea upto four kilometres in the Beruwala area, to check whether they were contaminated due to the radiation leak in Japan. Atomic Energy Authority Sectional Head Wijeya A. Waduge told The Island yesterday that the earlier test …
NEW DELHI: Six Delhi University professors were summoned by a court on Monday to explain their alleged criminal culpability in the death of one person and critical injuries caused to seven others in 2010 due to radiation from a radioactive irradiator, disposed of in a scrap market here. The professors …
— In the darkest moments of last year’s nuclear accident, Japanese leaders did not know the actual extent of damage at the plant and secretly considered the possibility of evacuating Tokyo, even as they tried to play down the risks in public, an independent investigation into the accident disclosed on …
Thousands rallied yesterday in Malaysia against an Australian miner's rare earths plant in the biggest protest yet over fears it will produce radioactive waste harmful to them and the environment. Australia's Lynas has almost completed building the plant near the seaside town of Kuantan in eastern Pahang state to process …
In a first initiative of its kind, India has begun scouting for deep underground sites to store for several decades the nuclear waste generated from its burgeoning atomic power programme. As a first step, the Department of Atomic Energy will set up an underground laboratory in one of its uranium …
The country’s nuclear research programme could get a major fillip with the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre proposing to build two new research reactors under the 12th Five Year Plan. The reactors will be used for testing materials for new power plants, radioisotope production and manpower training, among others. “We have …
Some 8.5 tons of radioactive water leaked from a reactor at Japan’s crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant but it had not flowed outside the reactor building, Kyodo News said on Wednesday, quoting the plant’s operator. Tokyo Electric Power Company said the leak occurred in the No 4 reactor after …
The Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KKNPP) is totally safe, asserts the expert group constituted by the Government of India. In a release, A.E. Muthu Nayagam, group convenor, said, “Based on its extensive examination of various issues, there should be no cause for concern about the safety” of the plant. He …
Japan's stricken nuclear power plant has leaked more than 600 liters of water, forcing it to briefly suspend cooling operations at a spent-fuel pond at the weekend, but none is thought to have escaped into the ocean, the plant's operator and domestic media said. The Fukushima plant, on the coast …
DU’s Radiation Fiasco Prompts Govt To Plan Mobile Detection Systems. Fear of exposure to radiation from scrap or medical waste may soon be a thing of the past. The central government will set up mobile radiation detection systems in 35 major cities across the country. “We shall be setting up …
The United States must urgently work to find a new central site to house its spent nuclear fuel and probe whether Japan's nuclear disaster has any safety implications for storage at the country's plants, a federal panel said on Thursday. The U.S. government has struggled with how to manage the …
Japan said Thursday that it would begin a cleanup this spring of radioactive contamination near the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, with the goal of cutting radiation levels in half within two years. The Environment Ministry said the cleanup would cover about two-thirds of the 100-square-mile zone around the plant …
A 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Japan today near the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, but did not cause any further problems at the power station, officials said. The quake hit in the Pacific, 22 kilometres east of Iwaki in southern Fukushima, at 12.20 pm (0320 GMT) at a depth of nine …
It has unparalleled safety features, says technical team The Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KKNPP) has come up with unparalleled safety features and it has been constructed in such a way that it shall withstand any sort of natural calamity, be it earthquake or tsunami. Also, the fears of radiation and …
Decommissioning the wrecked reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant will take 40 years and require the use of robots to remove melted fuel that appears to be stuck to the bottom of the reactors’ containment vessels, the Japanese government said on Wednesday. The predictions were contained in a detailed …
Sri Lanka's health minister Maithreepala Sirisena has appointed a high-powered committee to investigate the waste disposal from the National Cancer Institute after the National Atomic Energy Authority (NAEA) has found some radioactive substances in bathing wells and a paddy field in the areas surrounding the hospital in Maharagama. Western Provincial …
Tokyo: Japan’s Meiji Holdings said on Tuesday that radioactive cesium was found in infant milk powder made by the food and dairy firm, in the latest food scare to grip the country. Shares of Meiji plunged nearly 10% to their lowest close since May 2009 following the news. Meiji said …
The foreign suppliers of nuclear material to Indian nuclear power plants would not be held liable for accidents caused by defective or faulty equipment supplied by them if the accident takes place after a guarantee period specified by them. According to the Rules of the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damages …
