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 …
The number of workers exposed to high radiation at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 power plant in fiscal 2014 has grown 1.5-fold from the year before, data from Tokyo Electric said Saturday. A total of 992 workers, mostly those employed by subcontractors, saw their doses top 20 millisieverts in the …
Emergency services were battling on Tuesday to prevent Ukraine's largest forest fire since 1992 from spreading towards the abandoned Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk said. Earlier, the interior ministry had warned that high winds were blowing the fire in northern Ukraine towards Chernobyl, where in 1986 a …
Authorities in the Japanese capital have cordoned off a playground where high levels of radiation were detected this week, reviving concerns about nuclear contamination four years after the Fukushima disaster. Nuclear regulators measured elevated radiation levels on Thursday in a children's park in central Tokyo, city officials said, more than …
This is the time of year when birds come out and really spread their wings, but since a disastrous day just before spring’s arrival four years ago, Japan’s Fukushima province has not been friendly to the feathered. And as several recent papers from University of South Carolina biologist Tim Mousseau …
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 …
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 …
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 …
4 years after a tsunami caused devastation and a nuclear disaster in Japan’s Fukushima prefecture, life is far from restored for the local residents evacuated from the area. Justin McCurry reports.
A Hiroshima-based research institute plans to conduct lifelong health monitoring of people who worked at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant after the tsunami-triggered meltdown disaster struck there on March 11, 2011, it was learned on Wednesday. This will be the first such long-running survey on the people who worked …
The Government on Thursday assured Parliament that no provision related to compensation under the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Act (CLND) was waived in the recent India-US agreement and said the provision of Rs1,500 crore is for immediate compensation only. Making this clear while fielding questions on the Civil Nuclear …
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 …
Japan's atomic regulator on Thursday cleared a second set of reactors for restart, another step towards returning the country to nuclear power after the Fukushima disaster of 2011 led to the shutdown of all units. Two reactors at the Takahama nuclear station operated by Kansai Electric Power, Japan's most nuclear-reliant …
U.S. nuclear suppliers remain deeply sceptical of the assurances on interpretations of civil nuclear liability provided over the weekend by the Indian Ministry of External Affairs, both on Section 17 (b) and on Section 46 of the country’s liability law, according to persons close to the discussions here. Not fully …
Foreign suppliers of atomic reactors to India cannot be sued for damages by victims of a nuclear accident but can be held liable by the operator who has the right of recourse, the government said today releasing details of the understanding reached with the US recently. In a seven-page ‘frequently …
The maximum compensation that nuclear suppliers will have to pay in case of a mishap will be pegged at ₹2,160 crore. In a statement, the Ministry of External Affairs points out that the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Act of 2010 (CLND) presently prescribes that the maximum amount of liability …
MEA spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin, addressing speculation that US nuclear suppliers will be exonerated from any liability in the event of a nuclear disaster, said, “Let me assure you that when we arrived at the understanding with the US, we did so within the four corners of our law, international practice …
Nuclear power is a critical element in limiting greenhouse gas emissions, and a new Technology Roadmap co-authored by the IEA and the Nuclear Energy Agency outlines the next steps for growth in the aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi accident in Japan and the economic crisis and its effect on financing. …
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 …
