Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Hussain Ahamad Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 05/01/2024. In the application, the allegation was in respect of illegal mining of earth from the nearby agricultural field by brick kilns in an area in Muzaffarnagar district. Pits were …
A minor tsunami hit Japan's northeastern coastline today after a strong earthquake rocked the region nearly a year on from Japan's worst post-war natural disaster. The 10-centimetre wave and 6.8 magnitude quake, which struck some 210 kilometres off the northern island of Hokkaido, prompted local authorities to issue an evacuation …
MUMBAI: The anti-Jaitapur nuclear plant pitch rose a notch higher on Sunday with demonstrations and rallies against the nuclear power plant being held at a number of places across the state. To mark the first year of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, demonstrations against Jaitapur project and other nuclear …
Fatehabad: To mark the first anniversary of nuclear disaster in Fukushima (Japan) and to pay homage to three farmers who lost their lives during their 579-day stir, farmers agitating against the acquisition of their land for the Gorakhpur Atomic Power Plant today observed a fast at the dharna site. Farmers …
Regulators on Friday told the owners of the nation's nuclear reactors to implement new safety rules based on the lessons learned from the earthquake and tsunami that crippled Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant a year ago. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) said it authorized its staff to issue three immediately …
Nuclear power is safer than it was a year ago when a series of disasters at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant left 19,000 people dead or missing, the U.N. atomic energy chief said on Friday, but Greenpeace said no lessons had been learnt. In a statement issued ahead of Sunday's first …
Thousands of protesters took to the streets in Taiwan Sunday calling on the government to shut down the island’s nuclear power plants, citing the painful lesson of Japan’s 9.0-magnitude earthquake one year ago. In the capital city of Taipei, the crowd observed a one-minute silence to pay tribute to the …
Amartya Sen’s felicitous metaphor which celebrated an aspect of an open middle class Indian society has been harshly disproved by no less a person than the mild-mannered Manmohan Singh when he followed the practice of Indira Gandhi in seeing a “foreign hand” behind democratic opposition. Even when the prime minister …
The crisis that unfolded at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant after Japan's megaquake and tsunami is rewriting the nuclear safety guide. There are some positives. Despite being shaken by an earthquake that exceeded the worst case assumed in their design, the reactors along Japan's Pacific coast suffered no serious damage …
One of the less-noted consequences of the nuclear disaster at Fukushima is the effect on carbon dioxide emissions. Two of the world's six largest emitters are switching off their nuclear power stations, leaving them needing to source energy from elsewhere.
Last year’s triple disaster—earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown—has shattered Japanese faith in many of the country’s institutions. ON MARCH 11th, the first anniversary of the day that turned her world upside down, 13-year-old Wakana Yokoyama will be performing a rice-planting dance for her fellow villagers. It will be a happy …
The terrifying meltdowns and hydrogen explosions at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station in the days following 11 March 2011 made the importance of backup electricity generators painfully clear.
The Indian government has cancelled a visa granted to Maya Kobayashi, a Fukushimat survivor due to visit India and share her experiences with communities who would be affected by the proposed nuclear power plants, including the Koodankulam Nuclear Project. She was visiting India on the invitation of Greenpeace. The Indian …
CHENNAI: The Central expert group's report on the Kudankulam nuclear power plant issue has answered all questions raised by protestors and was satisfactory, a senior member of the Tamil Nadu government panel, appointed to look into concerns of the locals, said today. "We have reviewed all concerns raised by the …
Developing countries with an insatiable thirst for electricity are going full speed ahead with new reactors a year after the Fukushima Daiichi disaster disrupted the growth of nuclear power around the world. Innovations in nuclear design are tackling problems like the ones that contributed to the Fukushima Daiichi disaster in …
Long before the disaster at Fukushima Daiichi, nuclear engineers were working on solutions to problems similar to those that contributed to the accident. Some of the improvements—from new high-tech materials to so-called passive safety systems—have been worked into the designs of the latest generation of reactors, regulators and safety experts …
The aftermath of the biggest earthquake in Japan's history, and the tsunami and nuclear disaster that followed, offers a map for preparing for the next catastrophe. (Editorial)
Japan's worst-ever nuclear accident displaced more than 100,000 people. Many could now safely return home. Yet mistrust of the government prolongs their exile.
Disasters led by the Japan earthquake cost the world a record figure of more than $380 billion last year, a UN official said Monday. While countries are managing to control the disaster death toll, economic costs are increasing more than ever before, said Margareta Wahlstrom, the UN special envoy on …
