Nuclear Safety

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding illegal mining in village Leta, district Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh, 23/05/2025

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Akhilesh Kumar Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 23/05/2025. The matter related to illegal mining activites carried out by Jai Maa Chandrika Enterprises, Rajendra Nagar, village Kabari, district Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh. The applicant also alleged about illegal sale …

France urges worldwide nuclear review

French President Nicolas Sarkozy called on Thursday for a reform of global nuclear standards by the end of the year during a first visit by a foreign leader to Japan since the earthquake and tsunami that triggered its atomic disaster. G-20 chairman Sarkozy said France wants to host a meeting …

Nuclear emergency in Japan: lessons for India

The recent devastation that has impacted the people of Japan has been described as of epic proportions of many kinds: loss of lives, loss of private properties and public assets; economic set back; and nuclear emergency. While there was not much the civil society could do to avoid the earth …

Japan to scrap n-reactors; safety upgrade at other sites

Japan ordered an immediate safety upgrade at its 55 nuclear power plants on Wednesday in its first acknowledgement that standards were inadequate when an earthquake and tsunami wrecked one of the facilities nearly three weeks ago. Adding to the evidence of radiation leakages around the crippled nuclear complex, 240 km …

N-crisis mounts, Japan to scrap 4 stricken reactors

Radiation Level At Record High Tokyo: Radioactive iodine thousands of times higher than the permissible safety limit was discovered on Wednesday in the sea near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Japan

Lessons from the past

The Chernobyl disaster still has much to tell us about the long-term risks of low-level radiation exposure. But only if the necessary follow-up studies are supported. (Editorial) http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v471/n7340/full/471547a.html  

Concerns over nuclear energy are legitimate

Reassurances from ‘experts’ on the safety of nuclear power will not wash, says Colin Macilwain. The Fukushima crisis raises genuine questions. http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110330/full/471549a.html  

Radioactivity spreads in Japan

In a week that has seen little good news about the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors, the latest data on radioisotope fallout from the plant is so far offering a glimmer of hope. http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110330/full/471555a.html

Chernobyls legacy

Twenty-five years after the nuclear disaster, the clean-up grinds on and health studies are faltering. Are there lessons for Japan? http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110330/full/471562a.html

Japan govt admits safeguards at n-plant were insufficient

Japan's government vowed Tuesday to overhaul nuclear safety standards once its radiation-leaking reactor complex is under control, admitting that its safeguards were insufficient to protect the plant against the March 11 tsunami. The struggle to contain radiation at the complex has unfolded with near-constant missteps, including two workers drenched Tuesday …

PM promises independent nuclear regulator

Stressing, in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear accident, that the government was committed to ensuring the safety of Indian nuclear power plants, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday said steps would be taken to make the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB)

At Fukushima, radiation 100k times above normal

Tokyo: Sharply elevated radiation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex on Sunday raised the possibility of spreading contamination and forced an evacuation of a part of one of the buildings at the damaged plant, but Japanese utility officials later called the readings a mistake. The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency …

It is safe to go ahead with Jaitapur nuclear project

The DY Patil University (DYPU) of Kolhapur is associated with the Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project (JNPP). The department of atomic energy (DAE) and the Board of Research In Nuclear Sciences (BRNS) have awarded three projects to the varsity to carry out studies on baseline levels of radioactivity and assessment of …

Cut nuclear power's umbilical cord to the military

What if nuclear reactors were designed from first principles, simply as a means to produce power with as little risk as possible? (Editorial)

How newer reactors would have survived Fukushima

The safety features and power backups built into third-generation reactors should shut them down safely even without electrical power.

Why radiation fears are often exaggerated

Fear of radiation from Japan's stricken nuclear power plant must not blind us to the risks attached to the alternatives.

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 …

Impact of Fukushima event on nuclear power sector - Preliminary assessment

On March 11th, Japan was hit by one of the biggest natural cataclysms ever observed – a magnitude 9 earthquake on the Richter scale and a tsunami with a wave more than 10 meters high. The tsunami has resulted in a serious nuclear accident in the Fukushima power plant operated …

Do not phase out nuclear power yet

Fission power must remain a crucial part of the energy mix until renewable energy technologies can be scaled up, argues Charles D. Ferguson.

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