Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Tuesday it detected a record-high 25,800 becquerels per kilogram of radioactive cesium in fish sampled within 20 km of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.
New Delhi: Global nuclear watchdog IAEA will conduct an in-depth operational safety review of two atomic power plants at Rawatbhata in Rajasthan, the first such exercise in India in the aftermath o
The complicated and contentious issue of burying nuclear waste in Cumbria is heading for a milestone on 11 October when the three local councils which have expressed an interest meet to debate furt
It was called Treasure Island in honour of Robert Louis Stevenson's pirate classic, but the artificial island off San Francisco bay has nothing but trouble buried in its soil: radioactive contamina
Delhi High Court notices to AIIMS, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre on researcher's petition
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday issued notices to the Union Ministry for Health and Family Welfare, the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences and the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) on a petition by a researcher seeking a direction to the BARC to perform a scan to measure the extent of nuclear radiation in his body.
With the technology hurdle no longer in the way, India is readying thorium supplies to fuel its pilot advanced heavy water reactor (AHWR) that is currently in the works.
A plan to burn Britain's radioactive nuclear waste as fuel in a next-generation reactor moved a step closer to reality on Monday when GE-Hitachi submitted a thousand-page feasibility report to the
Chandigarh: A specialised laboratory equipped to check contamination of groundwater by uranium and other heavy metals will be set up and run in conjunction with the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (B
Punjab is the first state to report presence of uranium in drinking water in rural areas with almost 70 per cent samples sent to Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) testing positive for presence o
The State-run Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) clarified here on Friday that all nuclear power reactors at the Rajasthan Atomic Power Station (RAPS) were “safe” and that there was
