As Japanese workers pumped out contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean from the quake-hit Fukushima nuclear facility, authorities on Tuesday said radioactive iodine several million times the legal limit was detected in seawater near the plant but insisted that it posed no major health risk.
The plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), which last week said that contaminated wate
Mumbai: Just as the world is watching Japan all over again after it announced that contaminated water from its crippled nuclear plants would be released into the sea, the medical world is slowly talking about a touchy topic: Is radiation from medical devices harmful?
Medical scans have emerged as the final diagnostic answer for many diseases such as cancer.
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Mumbai: Indians face no danger, at least for the moment, of any radioactive contamination if they come in contact with imported Japanese products like cars, TV sets, electronic items and other consumer goods.
The firm assurance was given on Thursday by chairman of the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) S S Bajaj.
Even as the Japanese authorities began distributing bottled water for the estimated 80,000 children less than a year old in the Tokyo area, city authorities said Thursday that levels of a radioactive isotope found in water samples from one purification plant had fallen by more than half in the last 24 hours, now testing below the country
Tokyo: The World Health Organization said on Monday that radiation in food after an earthquake damaged a Japanese nuclear plant was more serious than previously thought, eclipsing signs of progress in a battle to avert a catastrophic meltdown in its reactors.
Engineers managed to rig power cables to all six reactors at the Fukushima complex, 240 km north of Tokyo, and started a water pump a
Issues relating to protection of the planet continue to capture media headlines and provoke public and political debate. The United Nationsʼ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has referred to global warming as a ʻweapon of mass destructionʼ (IPCC, 2007). However, global warming is not the only earth-threatening issue – there is also an increasing amount of environmental crime. The term ʻenvironmental crimeʼ is relatively new to the UK government lexicon but does not capture or harness the actions of the powerful towards acts of global environmental harm.
