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 …
Japan is considering evaporating or storing underground tritium-laced water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant as an alternative to releasing it into the ocean, Tokyo Electric Power Co's chief decommissioning officer told Reuters on Wednesday. The removal of hundreds of thousands of tonnes of water containing tritium, a relatively harmless …
Nuclear waste dumps can be imposed on local communities without their support under a new law rushed through in the final hours of parliament. Under the latest rules, the long search for a place to store Britain’s stockpile of 50 years’ worth of the most radioactive waste from power stations, …
The central government has not been able to identify half of some 2,400 owners of land in Fukushima Prefecture where it plans to build storage facilities for contaminated soil from the nuclear crisis, sources said. The government intends to build the complex on around 16 sq. km of land in …
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Monday it will release all available radiation data associated with its Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, in response to criticism over its failure to swiftly announce leaks of radioactive rainwater into the sea. According to Tepco, the company had a policy of disclosing radiation …
A radiation leak at an underground nuclear waste dump in New Mexico was caused by “chemically incompatible” contents, including cat litter, that reacted inside a barrel of waste causing it to rupture, scientists said on Thursday. The US Energy Department report on last year’s radiation accident at the Waste Isolation …
Government auditors say Tepco has wasted more than a third of the ¥190 billion in taxpayer money allocated for cleaning up Fukushima No. 1. A Board of Audit report describes various expensive machines and untested measures that ended in failure. It also says the cleanup work has been dominated by …
A total of ¥189.2 billion in taxpayers’ money has been spent since fiscal 2011 on decommissioning the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant and dealing with the buildup of radioactive water there, according to the Board of Audit. The board also said Monday that Tokyo Electric Power Co. has allocated …
A new German government report is stoking fears that the country’s energy companies can’t shoulder the cost of a government plan to close the country’s nuclear-power plants. Germany aims to phase out its nine remaining reactors by 2022, faster than almost any country. But nobody knows exactly how much it …
Norio Kimura lost his wife, father and 7-year-old daughter Yuna in the March 2011 tsunami. Now, he fears he may lose his land, too, as Japan’s government wants to build a sprawling radioactive waste storage site in the shadow of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant. Like many here, Kimura is …
Norio Kimura lost his wife, father and 7-year-old daughter Yuna in the March 2011 tsunami. Now, he fears he may lose his land, too, as Japan's government wants to build a sprawling radioactive waste storage site in the shadow of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant. Like many here, Kimura is …
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Tuesday it has failed to disclose leaks into the sea of rainwater containing radioactive substances from a drainage ditch linked to a building at its stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant although it became aware of the leaks in April last year. The building …
FUKUSHIMA – Fukushima Gov. Masao Uchibori said Tuesday he will allow the transfer of radioactive soil to a provisional site in the prefecture. The provisional site is part of a planned interim storage facility for soil and other radioactive waste from decontamination work in the prefecture following the March 2011 …
Sensors at the Fukushima nuclear plant have detected a fresh leak of highly radioactive water to the sea, the plant’s operator announced on Sunday, highlighting difficulties in decommissioning the crippled plant. Tokyo Electric Power Co said the sensors, which were rigged to a gutter that pours rain and ground water …
Sensors at the Fukushima nuclear plant have detected a fresh leak of highly radioactive water to the sea, the plant’s operator announced Sunday, highlighting difficulties in decommissioning the crippled plant. Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) said the sensors, which were rigged to a gutter that pours rain and ground water …
Toxic air pollutants even a trace amount heighten the risk of childhood cancer, according to cancer specialists, who say that the overall incidence of childhood cancer in India is reported to be over a lakh of new cases per year. “About 1.6 to 4.8 per cent of all cancers in …
The operator of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co, said it would not be able to meet a self-imposed deadline to decontaminate water containing highly radioactive substances by the end of March. The admission by the utility known as Tepco is another setback in its struggle to …
The Environment Ministry will start storing nuclear waste from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant and surrounding areas in interim facilities in two Fukushima towns from March—four years after the disaster that devastated the Tohoku region. Environment Minister Yoshio Mochizuki made the announcement after the plan overcame the final obstacle last …
IWAKI, FUKUSHIMA PREF. – An irradiated, abandoned town adjacent to the wrecked Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant has agreed to let the central government build a dump there which will house contaminated waste for as long as three decades, the town’s mayor said Tuesday. Cleanup workers will toss radiation-tainted soil, …
BHP Billiton wants to increase radioactive waste storage at Olympic Dam, but opponents say leakage rates will rise BHP Billiton believes it can increase the amount of radioactive waste being stored in ponds at Olympic Dam without seepage rates rising, under the new development plan for the famous mineral deposit …
The number of workers injured at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant this fiscal year, which ends March 31, far exceeded the 2013 figure by November, Tokyo Electric Power Co. officials said. The rise mainly reflects an increase in the overall number of workers at the disaster-hit plant, according to …
