Makes Room For More Lethal Runoff
Tokyo: Tokyo Electric Power Company began dumping over 11,000 tons of radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant on Monday, mostly to make room in storage containers for increasing amounts of far more contaminated runoff.

The water, most of it to be released over two days, contains about 100 times the legal limit of r

Smokeless tobacco products being marketed in India contain 3095 chemical components with serious implications for human health.

Tokyo/Fukushima: As Japan grappled with its worst atomic crisis in decades, premier Naoto Kan on Thursday said the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant must be scrapped as radiation seeping into sea tested 4,385 times the legal limit, but authorities ruled out expanding the evacuation zone.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy visited the Japanese capital, in the first trip by a world leader here s

Japan ordered an immediate safety upgrade at its 55 nuclear power plants on Wednesday in its first acknowledgement that standards were inadequate when an earthquake and tsunami wrecked one of the facilities nearly three weeks ago.

Adding to the evidence of radiation leakages around the crippled nuclear complex, 240 km north of Tokyo, readings showed radioactive iodine in the sea off the plant a

Radiation Level At Record High
Tokyo: Radioactive iodine thousands of times higher than the permissible safety limit was discovered on Wednesday in the sea near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Japan

Tokyo: Sharply elevated radiation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex on Sunday raised the possibility of spreading contamination and forced an evacuation of a part of one of the buildings at the damaged plant, but Japanese utility officials later called the readings a mistake.

The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said that water seeping out of the crippled No 2 reactor building in

Year After Radioactive Material Scarred Scrapyard, No Safety Measures Taken
New Delhi: A year has passed since the Mayapuri radiation incident but shopkeepers in one of India

Workers were withdrawn from a reactor building at Japan

Fish sold in Japan

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.