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 …
A 25-year-long battle in Taiwan between the area's government and indigenous people has culminated with the government agreeing to shut down a nuclear waste dump in Orchid Island by 2016. The island, about 65 km off Taiwan's southeast coast, is home to indigenous communities and has long been used to …
on february 15, 2007, ruling in favour of environmental group Greenpeace, a uk court said the consultation process for the government's 2006 energy review report was "seriously flawed', "misleading' and "procedurally unfair'. The order came as a setback to government's plans to build a new generation of nuclear plants. It …
This publication provides stimulating analysis on future scenarios of energy use, which focus on a range of technologies that are expected to emerge in the coming years and decades. There is now universal recognition of the fact that new technologies and much greater use of some that already exist provide …
A new U.S. government analysis has found that the plutonium at the heart of the country's nearly 10,000 stockpiled nuclear weapons could last twice as long as previously thought. That conclusion is likely to escalate the debate over the Bush Administration's campaign to build a new generation of weapons.
the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management's final report was released on July 31, 2006 in the uk. The government commissioned the report three years ago, after it decided to discuss nuclear waste disposal options. A British advisory panel has mooted to give communities better roads and emergency health care if …
radioactive wastes: A Pakistani senator recently accused the country's nuclear authorities of dumping radioactive waste near a village in the Punjab province causing cancer, miscarriages, and infertility among villagers and livestock. Senator Sardar Jamal Khan Leghari said tonnes of contaminated waste from uranium processing had been dumped outside abandoned mines …
More than 3,000 anti-nuclear activists attempted to block the delivery of atomic waste from France to the German town of Gorleben, on November 20, 2005. The activists staging a sit-down blockade on the railway track were arrested and farmers' tractors forming a barricade along the route confiscated. The controversial waste …
South Korean city of Kyongju has accepted to store nuclear dump in exchange for government subsidies worth us $288.2 million and us $5-10 million a year as storage fees. Kyongju city won the vote to host the country's first permanent storage site for nuclear waste beating three other cities vying …
• Traditional owners from Northern Territory, Australia gathered outside Lucas Heights nuclear reactor in Sydney to rally against plans to place a nuclear waste facility on their land • All new and renewed US passports will contain radio frequency identification chips that will include a digital photo and all other …
The northern territory (nt) government in Australia has failed to keep a vow to support senators in their fight against a national nuclear waste facility being built in its jurisdiction. The federal government wanted to build a nuclear waste dump in the nt for which it introduced legislations. Soon after, …
scientists in Germany have isolated a strain of bacteria from a uranium waste pile, which can be used to clean up toxic dumps. Bacillus sphaericus jg -a12 survives in highly toxic environments by accumulating heavy metals such as uranium, cadmium and lead in its outermost layer, according to the group …
yielding to pressure from the media and activists, who claimed their right to information under the country's Freedom to Information Act, uk's Tony Blair government has revealed a list of 12 secret radioactive waste disposal sites. The list was drawn up in the late 1980s and the then Tory regime …
the Union government recently said no outside body should be allowed to inquire into effluent discharges from the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (barc) at Trombay, Mumbai, because barc's activities are "strategic in nature'. The stand was expressed in an affidavit submitted to the Bombay High Court (hc) by Ananda Bose, …
After crushing a French environmentalist to death, a shipment of nuclear waste reached Germany's Gorleben storage site on November 9, 2004, despite strong protests. The rail convoy of 12 containers, heavily guarded by 11,000 German police, was forced to stop at several places in its route from La Hague reprocessing …
In Moscow, a celebration. One date symbolically sutured the two Russian cities: June 27. On that day, in 1954, the world’s first nuclear power station hummed into life in Obninsk, producing electricity till 2002. On that day 50 years later, 500 scientists and policy makers from 32 countries attended the …
India's nuclear power programme is also entering a crucial phase. Every challenge for the next 50 years the conference debated, India has to face and sort out before running the nuclear path. It needs to do that fast because it is just beginning to take its nuclear power programme seriously. …
Would it be cynical to interpret the conference's call to revive the nuclear power sector as hardsell? No. The present is as opportune a moment as can be. And for two sets of reasons. For one, 70 per cent of the world's 442 nuclear reactors will have turned utterly geriatric …
Four problems bedevil the nuclear energy sector: proliferation, political coyness over technology options that discourage proliferation, radioactive waste, and
a move is afoot in the us to soft-pedal on the issue of disposal of dangerous radioactive wastes. The us Senate recently approved a measure included in the Defense Authorisation Funding Bill that would allow the department of energy (doe) to reclassify lethal high-level radioactive waste in South Carolina as …
Kyrgyzstan's Prime Minister, Nikolai Tanayev, has vowed to prevent the country from becoming a uranium wasteland. His statement followed a public outcry against a Kyrgyz company's plans to process uranium from Germany. "The country needs to solve problems regarding its own uranium waste sites first,' Tanayev said in a cabinet …
