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 …
Use of radiation-resistant micro-organisms have enabled scientists of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) to recover heavy metals like uranium and cadmium and radionuclides such as cobalt-60 from radioactive waste. The treatment of these waste by microbes (both natural as well as genetically engineered ones) offers less expensive, eco-friendly, `in situ' …
India will not ban food imports from Japan immediately as no item has yet tested positive for radioactive contamination. All food imports, however, will now need mandatory
Kiev (Ukraine): Greenpeace said hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians are still eating food contaminated by radiation from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion a quarter-century after the blast. In a report, the environmental group said samples of milk,berries,potatoes and root vegetables in two Ukrainian regions show unacceptably high levels of …
As Japanese workers pumped out contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean from the quake-hit Fukushima nuclear facility, authorities on Tuesday said radioactive iodine several million times the legal limit was detected in seawater near the plant but insisted that it posed no major health risk. The plant's operator, Tokyo Electric …
Makes Room For More Lethal Runoff Tokyo: Tokyo Electric Power Company began dumping over 11,000 tons of radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant on Monday, mostly to make room in storage containers for increasing amounts of far more contaminated runoff. The water, most of …
Smokeless tobacco products being marketed in India contain 3095 chemical components with serious implications for human health. About 28 of these components are proven carcinogens, areca nut the most commonly used of all. What
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 …
Japan ordered an immediate safety upgrade at its 55 nuclear power plants on Wednesday in its first acknowledgement that standards were inadequate when an earthquake and tsunami wrecked one of the facilities nearly three weeks ago. Adding to the evidence of radiation leakages around the crippled nuclear complex, 240 km …
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
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
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 …
