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NUCLEAR WASTE LEAKAGE
From 1946 to 1993, the UK, France, Switzerland and others dumped 200,000 radioactive waste barrels in the Atlantic. Decades later, scientists are investigating the potential radioactive threat.From 1946 to 1993, several European nations including the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, and German...
1,500 residents were displaced from Hanford in 1943; 83 years later, the Washington site holds about 56 million gallons of radioactive and hazardous wasteIn 1943, residents were uprooted from their homes to create the Hanford nuclear site, which played a crucial role in generating plutonium f...
'Oppenheimer' sheds new light on the legacies of the Manhattan Project: Nuclear legacy, public health hazards, and governmental secrecyAs Christopher Nolan's film "Oppenheimer" brings attention to the creation of nuclear weapons during World War II, the consequences of the ...
Oppenheimer and the business of nuclear powerThe undecidedness about nuclear energy is in stark contrast to J. Robert Oppenheimer's Bhagavad Gita-inspired equanimity about his creation...
Fresh shelling at Ukraine power plant as operator warns of radiation riskKyiv and Moscow have repeatedly swapped allegations over rocket attacks in the vicinity of the plant -- Europe's largest -- located in the ...
Better distribution may ease power sector woes: ETILCThe members point out that cash strapped power utilities have not been able to buy energy from the manufacturers, resulting in low power of...
Budget 2016: Full text of Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's speechJaitley presented his third budget which took on the fiscal and physical health of the nation by setting the fiscal deficit target at 3.5% ...
How technology can fix 6 big problems of IndiaTechnological breakthroughs are perhaps the most powerful lever to solve some of India’s big problems in a generation or two.
Leakage reported in six underground nuclear waste tanks in USThe Governor of Washington State said that there is no immediate or near-term health risk associated with these newly discovered leaks.
- Lurking radioactive waste exposes defenceless Delhi
The exposure to the radioactive Cobalt-60 in scrap at Mayapuri in west Delhi that has left a scrap dealer, four of his labourers and anothe...