THE French are quitting the Mururoa and Fangataufa atolls in the South Pacific, but are leaving in their wake fears of possible nuclear contamination. After conducting at least 123 nuclear tests
voicing its concern on the issue of nuclear wastes, India has asked for the inclusion of radioactive waste generated from military activities in the convention on safety of radio
with problems of the disposal of plutonium reaching alarming heights in us and Russia, Canada has offered to help in its recycling. Both us and Russia have stocks of tonnes of the highly toxic fuel
ANTI-NUCLEAR feelings ran high in northern Germany, when a 40-tonne shipment of-plutonium and nuclear waste recently arrived at the Gorleben nuclear storage 0ant near Hanover. A series of
THE Russian Supreme Court's judgement was toud and clear: no to nuclear waste. And claiming a pat on its back was Greenpeace, the international environmental organisation, which had moved the
IT COULD lead to a nuclear disaster in the area. High-level radioactive waste from the spent fuel reprocessing plant of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) at Trombay has been piling up
IN A damning revelation, Bellona, the Norwegian environmental group, has disclosed that dozens of Russian nuclear ftiel containers carrying a large amount of radioactive matter which had
While the Mexican government is lambasting the us for dumping nuclear waste near its borders, it is actually fishing in its own dirty waters. The main polluter has been the national oil giant,
