Nuclear Waste

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Futala lake pollution, Nagpur, Maharashtra, 05/06/2025

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 …

Safety audit of nuke plants sought

Kozhikode: A safety audit of nuclear reactors and a law to make solar units mandatory for buildings which cost more than Rs.25 lakh were among the demands raised at an energy seminar organised at the Sports Council Hall here on Wednesday. The seminar was organised by the Society for Protection …

Battle of Yucca Mountain rages on

Staff have been cut, contractors laid off, offices closed and even furniture disposed of. But despite all its efforts to back away from plans to store spent nuclear fuel deep under Yucca Mountain, Nevada, the administration of US President Barack Obama just can't seem to bury the idea.

Panel on Nuclear Waste Disposal to Propose Above-Ground Storage

A commission created to help resolve the impasse over the disposal of the nation

Japan, U.S. Plan Nuclear Waste Storage In Mongolia

Japan and the United States plan to jointly build a spent nuclear fuel storage facility in Mongolia to serve customers of their nuclear plant exporters, pushing ahead despite Japan's prolonged nuclear crisis, the Mainichi daily said on Monday. A Trade Ministry official said Japan, U.S. and Mongolia officials, at a …

Regulator Grilled About Nuclear Waste Dump

Republican lawmakers questioned top officials from the U.S. nuclear regulator on Wednesday over its role in shelving a permanent dump for radioactive waste at Nevada's Yucca Mountain. Storage of nuclear waste is a top issue for regulators in the wake of Japan's Fukushima Daiichi disaster. Officials in Japan are struggling …

Nuclear Waste Storage A Top Issue For NRC: Chairman

The U.S. nuclear safety regulator is studying whether to require plants to more quickly move radioactive waste out of pools as part of a review on safety in the wake of Japan's nuclear disaster, its chairman said on Monday. Damage to a pool holding spent fuel at the Fukushima Daiichi …

Toxic water level rises in Japan nuke plant

The level of toxic water in two of the six reactors of the Fukushima plant has risen and is hampering the work of restoring its cooling functions Tokyo, April 26: The embattled operator of Japan

BARC scientists recover uranium, cobalt-60 from nuclear waste

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' …

Leak plugged, new N-crisis erupts

Japan Readies To Inject Nitrogen Into Reactor To Prevent Blast After Hydrogen Buildup Tokyo: Workers stopped a highly radioactive leak into the Pacific off Japan

25 years on, Chernobyl food still contaminated

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 …

India slaps 3-month ban on Japanese food imports

With rising fears of nuclear radiation contaminating the Japanese food chain, the Indian Government has decided to ban import of all food items from Japan for at least the next three months. The suspension of imports will be

Japan More radiation found in seawater near N-plant

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 …

Radiation from frequent tests comes under the scanner

Mumbai: Just as the world is watching Japan all over again after it announced that contaminated water from its crippled nuclear plants would be released into the sea, the medical world is slowly talking about a touchy topic: Is radiation from medical devices harmful? Medical scans have emerged as the …

A survey of the worlds radioactive no go zones

Everyone knows about Chernobyl, Three Mile Island and, now, Fukushima. But what about Semipalatinsk, Palomares and Kyshtym? The world is full of nuclear disaster zones -- showing just how dangerous the technology really is. http://www.firstpeoplesfirst.in/admin/pdf/74_Atomic%20Deserts.pdf  

No radiation threat from Japan imports

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 …

Radiation in Tokyo water down by more than half

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 …

Food Safety Fears Mount in Japan, Tokyo Tap Water Unfit for Infants

Radioactive iodine exceeding the limit considered safe for infants has been detected in Tokyo

In Japan, food radiation is more serious than thought

Tokyo: The World Health Organization said on Monday that radiation in food after an earthquake damaged a Japanese nuclear plant was more serious than previously thought, eclipsing signs of progress in a battle to avert a catastrophic meltdown in its reactors. Engineers managed to rig power cables to all six …

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