The political debate over nuclear waste disposal in Nevada's Yucca Mountain in the us took a new turn with the senate giving its final approval to dump 77,000 tonnes of radioactive waste and

A us $108.8 million global fund has been raised to tackle environmental problems and nuclear waste in northwest Russia. At a recent conference in Brussels, the European Commission pledged us

It has not been smooth sailing for the controversial us $58 billion project to store all the nuclear waste across the us in Nevada. Initially, the plan was strongly opposed by

Up in arms against a proposal of the US department of energy to abandon radioactive waste buried in storage tanks, environmentalists have filed a

The dismantling of the country's first nuclear power plant has got underway. Japan Atomic Power Co is carrying out the closure work of the plant located in Tokai, Ibaraki Prefecture. The 166,000

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lake Ontario of Canada is in a perilous condition due to leakage of nuclear waste from a facility managed by Cameco Corporation, the world's big

an environmental nightmare is how the environmentalists describe a recent proposal of British Nuclear Fuels ( bnfl ). The company plans to build an aboveground nuclear waste dump in the heart

Brazil is planning to expand its nuclear energy generating capacity, in the wake of an acute energy crisis (see Down To Earth , Vol 10, No 4, July 15, 2001, p13). Government officials say that

The us navy has decided to stop its military training on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques. "The military exercises on Vieques will come to an end within two years and a panel will be asked to