Kudankulam deadlock: Central team, protesters rule out further talks

Expert panel submits report saying plant meets all safety norms and that it is safe for operation

Andhra Pradesh speeds up Kovvada nuclear power project

Orders issued for acquiring 1,000 hectares

India, Japan pitch for carbon credits from nuclear energy

Non-profits irked. Say lessons not learnt from Fukushima

Kudankulam plant can withstand Fukushima-like disaster: Centre to SC

Court says it will not allow the plant to function if safety conditions are not met

High court stays land acquisition for Kovvada nuclear power plant

Petitioner alleges violation of norms, demands land acquisition should be permitted only after environmental clearances are secured

Supreme Court petitioned to stall proposed nuclear plants

Former bureaucrats, scientists,  say government pushing dangerous nuclear power programme without assessing safety or comparing cost with …

A schoolgirl’s nuclear nightmare

Varshini, 10, speaks for a new generation that is against nuclear energy

News Briefs

Japan restarts first nuclear plant after Fukushima disaster

Kyushu plant revived amidst heavy protests

Japan made “significant progress” in decommissioning Fukushima nuclear plant

15-member IAEA team applauds the country’s “planned efforts” but warns a lot remains to be done

India, Japan to sign carbon emissions reduction deal

Bilateral agreement that will help Japan earn carbon credits from India likely to be signed when Modi visits Japan next month

Nuclear corporation to allow general public inside power plants

Requests can be sent online

India takes a step ahead on nuclear transparency

To introduce an independent nuclear regulatory authority

Nuclear fault lines run deep

Secrecy, fettered regulator are a worry as India plans nuclear expansion

Nuclear energy set to grow at 45 per cent in next 20 years

Demand for nuclear energy has, however, declined after the Fukushima disaster of 2011

Supreme Court gives go ahead to Kudankulam nuclear power plant

Rules in favour of larger public interest; says plant is safe

Life post Fukushima

It is one year since the great eastern Japan earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear disaster ravaged Japan. How is the country coping?  …

Japan earthquake triggers Fukushima meltdown fear

The US Geological Survey measured the earthquake at 6.9, down from an initial 7.3

Explosion at nuclear plant in northern France injures at least five

The explosion took place in the engine room of the plant owned by a French energy giant Électricité de France

Want to solve climate problem? Nuclear isn't the answer

Alternatives to nuclear energy, in particular renewable sources of electricity like wind and solar energy, have become drastically cheaper.

Tepco to decommission plant close to one damaged in 2011

The Fukushima Daini plant located 12 kilometres away from the Daiichi plant, had escaped damage in the 2011 quake and tsunami

Robots to retrieve radioactive remnants from Fukushima, other retired nuclear plants

The £12 million 'LongOps' project is a collaboration between Japan and UK

Global Eco Watch: Leopard killed, eaten in Idukki as revenge for sheep-killing

Down To Earth brings you the top happenings in the world of global ecology

A decade on, only 15% of Fukushima core area decontaminated: Greenpeace

The Japanese government’s own figures reveal this, the organisation says in a report to mark 10 years of the disaster

‘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 …