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 …
Toxic radioactive substances were detected again in groundwater at the Fukushima nuclear plant, its Japanese operator said on Sunday. Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) said tests showed that tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen, was present at levels 10 times the permitted rate. “From test samples on July 5... we …
Court also orders nuclear company to pay £72,000 costs for mistake which sent low-level waste to wrong site The nuclear company Sellafield Ltd has been fined £700,000 and ordered to pay more than £72,000 costs for sending bags of radioactive waste to a landfill site. The bags, which contained waste …
The European Commission on Thursday published a draft nuclear safety law that includes mandatory EU-wide reviews every six years in response to lessons learnt from the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan. In the aftermath of the Japanese nuclear tragedy, the EU carried out a series of stress tests to examine …
To prevent serious injury from being caused to environment and humans, national green tribunal (NGT) on Wednesday banned burning of plastics, tyres, wires or any such materials in the scrap market of Mayapuri here. A bench headed by NGT chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar also directed that no one in the …
The Supreme Court on Monday said there is no basis to the fear that the radioactive effects of the Kudankulam nuclear power plant, when commissioned, will be far reaching. A Bench of Justices K.S. Radhakrishnan and Dipak Misra said: “We are convinced that the KKNPP design incorporates advanced safety features …
Tokyo: Radioactive water has apparently leaked from another underground storage tank at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) said on Sunday. The volume of the latest leakage was believed to be small, it said. On Saturday, it said as much as 120 tonnes of radioactive …
Some radioactive water may have leaked into the ground from a storage tank at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, its operator said on Sunday, the latest in a series of troubles at the facility. The fresh leak comes a day after Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) said up …
A second underground storage pool is leaking radioactive water at the disaster-stricken Fukushima No. 1 power plant, operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Sunday. The first pool, No. 2, was found to have leaked 120 tons of highly radioactive water on Friday. The size of the leak at the second …
Radioactive water has apparently leaked from another underground storage tank at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co said on Sunday. The utility, known as Tepco, said the volume of the latest leakage is believed to be small. On Saturday, it said as much as 120 tons …
New Delhi: The national green tribunal has set up a committee, headed by the secretary of the environment department, to look into the issues of the Mayapuri scrap market where a radioactive leak in April 2010 killed one person. The committee will comprise of one member from Delhi Development Authority, …
Three Years After Tragedy, No Mechanism In Place To Check Radioactivity New Delhi: Thirty-fiveyear-old Deepak Jain, a scrap dealer at Mayapuri, doesn’t come to work regularly. Labourers at his shop, unlike other shops in one of the city’s biggest and busiest scrap markets, don’t have much work as there is …
The Japanese utility that owns the tsunami-damaged nuclear power plant said Sunday it has detected a record 740,000 becquerels per kilogram of radioactive cesium in a fish caught close to the plant. That’s 7,400 times the government limit for safe human consumption. The bottom-dwelling fish called a greenling was found …
Winning back confidence in nuclear power after Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident in March difficult, but will require unwavering commitment to safety International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Yukiya Amano said on Monday public awareness was important to ensure nuclear power projects do not face opposition. He acknowledged the concerns …
The Department of Energy on Wednesday put forward a long-term plan to extract and ship low-level radioactive waste from leaking tanks at Washington state's Hanford Nuclear Reservation to a dump in New Mexico. The announcement came two weeks after Washington Governor Jay Inslee publicly announced that six waste tanks were …
A bill to lift a decadeslong ban on uranium mining in Virginia was withdrawn Thursday just before a state Senate panel vote where it was expected to be defeated. The bill, pulled by its sponsor, Republican Sen. John C. Watkins, was backed by a company that wanted to mine an …
SHILLONG: The Travelling International Uranium Film Festival India 2013 has chosen Shillong as one of the cities to showcase films on the different aspect of Uranium mining and Nuclear Energy in the world. This two-day event will be inaugurated tomorrow in the city. International Uranium Film Festival is a global …
South Korea is to hold public consultations on where to store waste nuclear fuel as storage capacity at its reactors is reaching full capacity, the government said on Tuesday. The plan to set up an independent consultative body comes as South Korea grapples with its worst nuclear crisis ever after …
British regulators filed charges against the owners of the Sellafield nuclear waste site on Thursday on allegations of illegal dumping of radioactive waste, adding to the plant's history of controversy and complaints. The nine charges relate to the dumping of low-level waste in a landfill in 2010, the latest in …
JAIPUR: Raising doubts over the inspection by International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) at Rajasthan Atomic Power Station (RAPS) in Rawatbhata, anti-nuclear activists on Friday demanded safety examination by an independent body. Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace (CNDP) and People's Union of Civil Liberties (PUCL) claimed that the exercise is …
China has built its first experimental fast neutron reactor which will help make better use of the nuclear energy. The reactor passed official checks on Wednesday after 20 years of developments by Chinese scientists, according to the China Institute of Atomic Energy. Experts organized by the Ministry of Science and …
