Electricity wholesaler Japan Atomic Power said on Monday that gas containing a minute amount of radiation had leaked from its Tsuruga nuclear plant in western Japan the previous day, but that the amount was well below the legal limit and there was no impact on the environment.
The amount of radiation was estimated at about one-four hundred thousandth of the annual legal limit, and there were no
BP will pay $25 million in civil fines to settle charges arising from two spills from its network of pipelines in Alaska in 2006 and from a willful failure to comply with court orders to properly maintain the pipelines to prevent corrosion, federal officials announced on Tuesday.
The fine is the largest per-barrel assessment ever levied against an oil company in a spill case and represents a ne
The nuclear disaster in Japan has sent waves of radiation and dread around the globe, prompting so many people to buy radiation detectors and potassium iodide to fend off thyroid cancer that supplies quickly sold out.
Japan, stung by international criticism of its handling of a nuclear crisis, will likely include foreign experts in a review of the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, an aide to the prime minister said on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Naoto Kan has promised an eventual review of the crisis, in which cooling functions at the nuclear power plant in northeast Japan were knocked out by a 15
Hitachi Ltd and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd will explore bolstering ties over Japan's stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, as Hitachi looks to win a multibillion dollar contract to scrap its damaged reactors.
Hitachi and rival Toshiba Corp each submitted separate proposals for the long-term decommissioning of the hobbled nuclear plant earlier this month, a process experts say cou
Japan Readies To Inject Nitrogen Into Reactor To Prevent Blast After Hydrogen Buildup
Tokyo: Workers stopped a highly radioactive leak into the Pacific off Japan
KOLKATA, 23 JAN: Seventy people fell ill and 5,000 people were affected following leakage of ammonia gas from a cold storage at Nagerbazar in Dum Dum today. Panic gripped residents and many fled the locality.
Around 5,000 people were affected and some of them were admitted to a local hospital. Residents developed breathing problems and eye irritation.
An oil spill around a mile long has leaked from a pipeline some 80 kilometres off the Mumbai coast and could mean a loss of about 25,000 barrels, state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corp said on Friday.
Oil Secretary S Sundareshan said the leakage should be plugged soon.
"The initial assessment of the extent of the oil spill is about one mile long," ONGC said in a statement.
MUMBAI: Taps in Kalina have been spewing yellow, muddy water for over a month now. A 24-inch water pipeline in H (east) ward, Santa Cruz (east), was damaged due to micro-tunnelling for sewerage work. This is the same ward which has reported maximum complaints about yellow, contaminated water.
BERHAMPUR: Panic gripped the locals, as traffic on NH 5 near IRE chowk was disrupted for sometime today following leakage of hydrochloric acid from a tanker.
The tanker loaded with the acid left Jayashree Chemicals at Ganjam this evening for Andhra Pradesh.
The leakage was spotted at IRE chowk when locals seeing the fumes ran for their lives.
