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Highly dangerous plutonium offers no quick fix to US nuclear fuel crunchAmerica is exploring turning surplus plutonium into nuclear fuel for new reactors. This move aims to meet rising power demands, particularl...- Reactor reboot at world's largest nuclear plant highlights flaws in Japan's radioactive waste plansJapan has restarted its largest nuclear power plant to meet energy demands. However, the nation faces a critical challenge: a severe shorta...
- Sops for private investors in nuclear energy on cardsThe Indian government is actively seeking private sector investment for its nuclear energy expansion plans, aiming to boost green transitio...
- This $1.16 billion hole in the ground is humanity's best plan for nuclear waste, and it's opening in the world's happiest country - here's what you need to knowFinland nuclear waste repository: Finland is poised to open Onkalo, the world's first permanent underground repository for nuclear waste. T...
- How a critical recent milestone proved India doubters wrongIndia has achieved a major milestone with its new fast-breeder nuclear reactor reaching criticality. This marks a significant step in a dec...
- Race to the Moon: Power, politics and the new space orderA new space race is unfolding as the United States and China compete for lunar dominance. Both nations are pushing for crewed Moon landings...
- US EPA faces legal challenge over radioactive waste use in Florida road projectThe US Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, is facing a lawsuit from the Centre for Biological Diversity for approving a road project e...
- Sweden starts building 100,000 year storage site for spent nuclear fuelSweden has commenced construction on a final storage facility for spent nuclear fuel, set to store highly radioactive waste for 100,000 yea...
- Ukraine warns of radiation leak risk after power cut at occupied Chernobyl plantOn Tuesday, the U.N. nuclear watchdog warned that the systems monitoring nuclear material at the radioactive waste facilities at Chernobyl ...
- Is it green, or forever toxic? Nuclear rift at climate talksAs negotiators plot out how to fuel the world while also reducing carbon emissions at climate talks in Scotland, nuclear power is a central...
- No radioactive waste leakage into Thane creek from BARC: GovernmentAn environmental surveillance programme is carried out regularly at Thane creek for the measurement of various man- made radionuclides, the...
- Lesson for India: Why reprocessing of spent fuel from nuclear reactors makes little senseRecent media reports suggest that all is not well within the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) in Trombay, Mumbai.
- India can't dump radioactive waste in Lanka, says senior minister RanawakaThe Minister was commenting on the bilateral agreement signed on February 16 in New Delhi on cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear en...
- India generates around 4 tonnes/GW nuclear waste per year: Jitendra SinghNuclear waste is generated primarily from two kinds of facilities, such as Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs) and Spent Fuel Processing Facilities.
- 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.
- L&T delivers 12 dry shield canisters to Areva unitL&T has delivered 12 dry shielded canisters, used for the storage of radioactive waste from nuclear power plants, to US-based Transnuclear ...
- BARC scientists recover uranium, cobalt-60 from N-wasteUse of radiation-resistant micro- organisms have enabled scientists of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) to recover heavy metals like ur...
- Delhi University is country's only radioactive polluter: AERBDelhi University has earned the dubious distinction of being the country's only violator of radioactive waste disposal norms, according to ...
- IAEA seeks info on radioactive waste leak in DelhiThe UN atomic watchdog on Saturday said it is seeking more information about reports of a radioactive waste scandal at the University of De...
- Lurking radioactive waste exposes defenceless DelhiThe 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...
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