Trick or treat?

Countries approach communities to say yes to nuclear disposal site near them

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Heated protests over nuclear waste

Global resentment brews as Japan plans to ferry a new consignment of radioactive waste across maritime boundaries, flattening the latest …

Vietnam’s decision to scrap nuclear energy plans has some lessons for India

The decision dealt a blow to global nuclear energy trade and watered down Japan’s efforts at exporting reactors

China building ‘fundamentally unsafe’ nuclear reactors; marine life at risk

The lead-cooled thermal reactors can kill off their crews with radiation and their radioactive waste could spread far and wide

“What does it feel like?”

The news about Fukushima Daiichi nuclear waste leaking into the ocean and groundwater, prompts us to take a look at what the sciences can model …

Hiroshima Day 2023: The global footprint of nuclear fallout

Nearly 8 decades since the nuclear age started, people around the world, not to mention the flora and fauna, have all been exposed to radioactive …

Nuclear fusion breakthrough: Decades of research still needed before fusion can be used as clean energy

Regardless of the efficiency of a future fusion power plant, taking energy conversions from basic science to the real world will require …

Public hearings on Kaiga nuclear plant expansion, but what are the risks?

Proposed expansion of two units raises concerns, throws light on previous mishaps and health impacts

Tepco to decommission plant close to one damaged in 2011

The Fukushima Daini plant located 12 kilometres away from the Daiichi plant, had escaped damage in the 2011 quake and tsunami

Kudankulam plant will continue to operate despite failing to set up safe storage for spent fuel

NPCIL has missed 2018 deadline for building AFR facility to store spent nuclear fuel, which is currently kept within the power plant

Occupational hazard: Exposure to ionising radiation affects over 24 million workers globally

Behavioural risk factors plays an important role in the worldwide cancer burden and 44% of global cancer deaths are preventable  

‘We’ll need a geological repository to store nuclear waste only after 30-40 years’

P K Wattal, director, Nuclear Recycle Group of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, offers insight into the status of nuclear waste …

Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukushima: And now Zaporizhzhia?

There have been multiple reports of rocket attacks on Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant ever since Russia occupied it

Disposing of nuclear waste

>> Too Hot to Touch, the Problem of High Level Nuclear Waste, by William Alley and Rosemarie Alley, Cambridge University Press, US $ 29.9

Down with the dump

Residents of a Rajasthan village are up in arms over secret plans to store nuclear waste nearby

Dredging of river near Chernobyl could spell disaster for 28 million in Ukraine

Pripyat river is being drained as part of the E40 inland navigation project to connect the Baltic and Black Seas

Emerging hazard: Radioactive contamination increasingly found in scraps for recycling, says UN body

Radioactive contaminated metal, if used to manufacture household goods, could pose a potential health problem to unsuspecting consumers: …

Failing to come clean

It is unclear whether the Indian government supports the transfer of nuclear energy technology under the climate convention's Kyoto Protocol

Will Kolar become India's nuclear waste dumpyard?

Government offices, business houses, educational institutions and cinema halls remain shut in protest against the Centre’s move

Japan to release treated water from Fukushima nuclear plant from August 24 

Over 1.3 million tonnes of radioactive water stored from 12 years; UN nuclear watchdog had approved plan in July 2023