‘We’ll need a geological repository to store nuclear waste only after 30-40 years’

P K Wattal, director, Nuclear Recycle Group of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, offers insight into the status of nuclear waste …

Disposing of nuclear waste

>> Too Hot to Touch, the Problem of High Level Nuclear Waste, by William Alley and Rosemarie Alley, Cambridge University Press, US $ 29.9

Nuclear contamination

Thar desert faces threat

Hey, let’s twist

Arm-twisted nanotubes to dispose of nuclear waste

Down with the dump

Residents of a Rajasthan village are up in arms over secret plans to store nuclear waste nearby

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

Sayonara to nuclear

Even if Japan aims to exit nuclear power by 2040, its path remains treacherous

Leakage at Kakrapar could be large, warns expert

A Gopalakrishnan is the former chairman of the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board 

On thin ice

Trick or treat?

Countries approach communities to say yes to nuclear disposal site near them

Failing to come clean

It is unclear whether the Indian government supports the transfer of nuclear energy technology under the climate convention's Kyoto Protocol

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Will Kolar become India's nuclear waste dumpyard?

Government offices, business houses, educational institutions and cinema halls remain shut in protest against the Centre’s move