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Fukushima: Why is Japan releasing water and is it safe?Japan has begun the process of pumping over a million metric tons of treated radioactive water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power pla...
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The Fukushima water release planTanks on the site now hold about 1.3 million tonnes of radioactive water - enough to fill 500 Olympic-sized swimming pools. Here is how Tok...
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How dangerous was Russia's nuclear plant strike?After taking the strategic port city of Kherson, Russian forces moved into the territory near Zaporizhzhia and attacked the nearby city of ...
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Reliance to fund new generation nuclear reactor along with Gates, Vinod Khosla, ex MS HonchoReliance Industries has joined hands with Bill Gates, Vinod Khosla and Nathan Myrvhold to fund the development of a nuclear reactor.
22 Dec, 2011, 07.41 AM IST
- Protest against Kudankulam nuclear plant continues in Tamil Nadu
Villagers continued to protest outside Tamil Nadu's Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) on Friday, preventing employees of the plant fr...
15 Oct, 2011, 04.25 AM IST
- Post Fukushima: India begins construction on new N-plant
Moving ahead with its nuclear programme in the backdrop of the Fukushima accident, India today began construction of its 25th atomic power ...
18 Jul, 2011, 12.54 PM IST
- Fukushima N-plant hit by giant waves as high as 48 feet
A wall of water that slammed into Japan's Fukushima Daiichi power plant in the massive tsunami on March 11 was as high as 48 feet higher th...
10 Apr, 2011, 12.44 PM IST
- Review Jaitapur and large nuclear parks: Jairam Ramesh
The meltdown in Japan's Fukushima nuclear plants, following the earthquake and tsunami, is casting a shadow on Prime Minister's nuclear pla...
07 Apr, 2011, 01.02 AM IST
- WHO: No radiation cloud spreading from Japan
Rumors have been circulating by text messaging and other means of a threatening radiation cloud spreading across Asia.
17 Mar, 2011, 05.30 AM IST
- Hydrogen blast at Japan's Fukushima N-plant
Radiation risks mounted in Japan after a second hydrogen explosion rocked the quake-hit Fukushima nuclear plant today leaving 11 workers in...
15 Mar, 2011, 10.47 AM IST
- 180K flee as Japan's nuke-plant crisis intensifies
Operators have been dumping seawater into units 1 and 3 in a last-ditch measure to cool the reactors.
14 Mar, 2011, 07.27 AM IST