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 …
While Japan has battled a series of food scares in the wake of the nuclear crisis, the latest revelation hits at the heart of the country’s proud national staple: Radioactive cesium exceeding the government limit was detected for the first time in rice harvested in Fukushima prefecture. About 630 becquerels …
Halliburton Co faces lawsuits over groundwater pollution near a now-closed facility in Oklahoma that cleaned missile casings for the U.S. Defense Department during the Cold War, the company said on Friday. Halliburton, which now specializes in oilfield services, said one of its units cleaned solid fuel from missile casings between …
This report by Blacksmith Institute reveals that worst pollution problems stem not from MNCs, but from poorly regulated small-scale operations and it also calculates for the first time, the health impacts of toxic sites. The World's Worst Toxic Pollution Problems 2011 report reveals that contrary to popular belief, most toxic …
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 …
Norwegian researcher finds double the estimated cesium radiation, says Japan’s estimate may miss emissions blown out to sea The Fukushima nuclear disaster released twice as much of a radioactive substance into the atmosphere as Japanese authorities estimated, reaching 40 percent of the total from Chernobyl, a preliminary report says. The …
If heavy rain had fallen in Tokyo on March 14 or March 15, the capital could have experienced the same severe spikes in radiation that areas northwest of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant suffered, says the author of a new study. “There was a period when quite a high concentration …
New Delhi: In its post-Fukushima review of nuclear safety, India has ramped up safeguards at its atomic power plants with three layers of power back-ups, water pipes drawn from offsite locations, elevated water towers and options for injecting nitrogen to prevent explosions. With public concern spiking after the Japanese disaster …
LUCKNOW: Visualise this: Teams of city police busy checking if there is any radiation leak in the environment using sophisticated detection kits. This scenario could well be a reality once the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) implements phase I of its project, which aims to ensure safety from radiation hazards. …
‘Will Act As Deterrent To Acts Of Terror’ New Delhi: Fifty cities across the country will soon have Mobile Radiation Detection Systems(MRDS) as partof the preparedness to handle radiological emergencies like the onethathittheMayapuri area in the Capital where one person died last year. The Union home ministry recently sanctioned setting …
Japan found the first case of rice with radioactive materials far exceeding a government-set level for a preliminary test of pre-harvested crop, requiring thorough inspection of the rice to be harvested from the region, the farm ministry said late on Friday The ministry said radioactive cesium of 500 becquerels per …
New Delhi: A trial court will now hear on September 29 the chargesheet filed in the Mayapuri radiation leak incident against six Delhi University teachers. The court, which was to consider the chargesheet on Wednesday, deferred it till September 29. Meanwhile, a DU professor, accused in the case, has moved …
The National Green Tribunal in its hearing on the issue of 3 x 660 MW expansion of coal-based thermal power plant at Koradi, Nagpur District, Maharashtra in its final order on Tuesday directed the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) to look into the matter as to long-term impacts caused …
Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) V. Narayanasamy on Tuesday met those protesting for the past 10 days against the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) and assured them that the safety and security of the people were paramount. “People's safety first and power generation comes later,” he …
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 …
The Delhi police today filed a chargesheet in a city court against six Delhi University professors in the 2010 Mayapuri radiation case for endangering lives by auctioning a radioactive gamma irradiator without following mandatory precautions. The chargesheet, filed before Metropolitan Magistrate Lovleen, covers Delhi University teachers, including the then Head …
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 level of radiation that four workers were exposed to at the Kakrapar Atomic Power Station-2 or KAPS unit 2 in Gujarat is not significant enough to cause any harm to their health, the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) has said. On May 30, KAPS-2 was operating normal …
Surat: Five daily wage workers, hired for cleaning and colouring a tunnel at the Kakrapar Atomic Power Station (KAPS), about 75km from the city, have alleged that they were exposed to radiation there on May 30, 2011. In a memorandum to the Tapi district collector, they have sought employment and …
A new contract to process 1,000 tons of nuclear waste from Germany has environmental activists concerned that the town of Oak Ridge, Tennessee could become a prime destination for the world's nuclear trash. The city in east Tennessee was founded by scientists who were developing the atomic bomb during World …
