Kudankulam meltdown

The spectre of Fukushima continues to haunt the world, forcing governments in most parts of the globe to rethink their plans to tap this …

Sealing the tomb

A foam spray can be used to seal the hazardous debris at Chernobyl, Ukraine, and also to safely transport radioactive wastes

Focus shifts to N-plant revamp

Environmental issues took a backseat at the recent G-7 meet where the main concern was the business of revamping Soviet-built nuclear power plants

Nuclear madness

The closure of Chernobyl sends a clear message. Nuclear power is dangerous and unprofitable

Nuclear tank explodes in Siberian plant

A blast in a secret weapons factory in the off-limits city of Tomsk-7 shook western Siberia recently and revived memories of Chernobyl.

A decade later, most of Fukushima remains contaminated

This is even after $28 billion has been spent to decontaminate and 30 million workers have cleared 17 million tonnes of nuclear waste till March 2019

Dredging of river near Chernobyl could spell disaster for 28 million in Ukraine

Pripyat river is being drained as part of the E40 inland navigation project to connect the Baltic and Black Seas

Environmental impacts of the Russia-Ukraine conflict

War in Ukraine could lead to thousands of civilian deaths, a potential refugee crisis and global economic downfall. It will also create …

Forget Fukushima: Chernobyl still holds record as worst nuclear accident for public health

The meltdown at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986 exposed 572 million people to radiation. No other nuclear accident holds a candle …

‘The difference between Chernobyl and Fukushima wildlife is the wolf is extinct in Japan’

Down To Earth speaks to James Smith from the University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom about the proliferation of wildlife in the two …

Environmental collapse before Soviet’s fall

Exactly 25 years after the fall of the USSR, let’s take a look at its ‘consumeristic’ policies for exploiting natural resources …

A holiday in bad air

Book>> Visit Sunny Chernobyl And Other Adventures In The World’s Most Polluted Places • by Andrew Blackwell • Rodale Books &…

Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukushima: And now Zaporizhzhia?

There have been multiple reports of rocket attacks on Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant ever since Russia occupied it

Chernobyl

Twenty years ago -- on April 26, 1986 -- the biggest nuclear disaster happened in Chernobyl, in what was then the Soviet Union, when a chain …

Chernobyl concluded

Protecting Chernobyl

United Nations

Danger zone

Causing cancer

G-7 plan against N-fallout

Chernobyl facts

LINGERING EFFECTS

Claim to safety

Radioactive power

Greening of Gorbachov