Another Chernobyl

Computer Virus>> Nuclear Energy • Iran

People should not be kept in dark on ill-effects of nuclear plants

Nuclear info

As renewable energy picks up, nuclear decommissioning market booms

Though India is yet to take up decommissioning, it has a fund worth Rs 1,975 crore to do the job in the future

Japan ignored threats

Wikileaks>> Nuclear Safety • Japan

Report pitches for nuclear energy in future

India is undergoing negotiations to unlock long-standing agreements with French, Russian and US companies to build nuclear power plants across …

Report warns India against untested technology for nuclear power plants

Twelve nuclear plants have been proposed in India that will use new, untested technology

‘It is not just a nuclear risk, but a climate risk’

Jan Haverkamp, a nuclear expert of Greenpeace (Central and Eastern Europe), spoke to Down To Earth on about Akademik Lomonosov — the first …

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

Nuclear's unclear leap

Is India's failure to bag foreign reactors the real reason behind its announcement to set up 10 nuclear plants on its own?

South Asia

Extreme weather increasingly disrupted generation of nuclear power in last 30 years: State of the Climate in Europe 2022

Nearly 60% of plants located by rivers or lakes in the continent experienced nuclear power production losses since 2017  

Authorities move a step closer to mining the Aravallis for uranium

After traces of uranium and other mineral deposits were found in the mountain range in preliminary findings, a second phase of survey is being …

Uranium Rush

Just what is heavy water?

Down To Earth explains the importance of the culprit behind the leak at Kakrapar on Friday

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

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

Nuclear reality, damaged democracy

Indian policy-makers continue to vouch for nuclear energy after the Fukushima tragedy

Fresh row over nuclear bill

Suppliers let off the hook in the final draft

Switzerland votes for phasing out nuclear power, switching to renewable energy

The new energy policy prohibits construction of new nuclear power plants and promotes the use of renewable energy sources and energy conservation

Europe keeping dirty fuels alive; will spend $68 billion in hidden subsidies by 2040

Spain, Poland, Belgium, Ireland and the UK are making the biggest spending for subsidising fossil fuels

Gujarat's Kakrapar nuclear plant shut down after leak

The reactor will take at least 24 hours to cool

Six years on, authorities clueless about Fukushima

Abnormally high radiation preventing humans and robots from cleaning the damaged reactors

Waging war on state

Why are the dispossessed accused of undermining the nation when it is crooked politicians, businessmen who are destroying it?

Nuclear plant triggers reaction

Konkan villagers protest land acquisition for 9,900 MW power plant

After SEZs, nuclear power parks

Power plants proposed on farmland will displace 50,000 people