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“A River is Not a Radioactive Sewer”: Dr. Gordon Edwards on Radioactive Water Dumping in the Pacific Ocean, Hudson River

Asia, Documents, Editor's choice, Environmental Impacts of Nuclear Power, Fukushima, Latest, Nuclear America, Nuclear and water, Nuclear Anthropocene, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Safety, Nuclear Waste, Radiation and Health September 3, 2023 at 1:29 am 0 comments

A River is Not a Radioactive Sewer Dr. Gordon Edwards | Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility Media conference presentation, New York State, August 23 2023, Re: Plans to dump radioactive wastewater into the Hudson River In 2017, I was invited to give a talk on the shores of the HudsonRead More

Nuclear Safety Regimes and India: What the Silence on the latest Fukushima Crisis Tells Us

Anthropocene, Asia, Environmental Impacts of Nuclear Power, Fukushima, India's Nuclear Expansion, International, International Solidarity, Nuclear and non-humans, Nuclear and water, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Waste January 25, 2021 at 9:32 pm 0 comments

Sonali Huria| The Leaflet THE new year has begun on a grim note with a toxic gas leak at the Rourkela Steel Plant in Odisha on 6 January, which claimed the lives of four contractual workers. This is the latest in a disconcerting string of industrial accidents in India over the last fewRead More

UAE’s Barakah nuclear plant: wrong reactor, at wrong time, at wrong place

Asia April 19, 2020 at 9:58 pm 0 comments

The UAE has announced that the first reactor of its under-construction Barakah nuclear power plant is scheduled to come online within “a few months”. The country’s first nuclear plant could address a key energy need in the region, but questions remain as to its usefulness and safety in a geopolitically tense environment.

Namaste Nukes? Trump’s Toxic Sales Pitch for the Stalled Westinghouse Nuclear Project in India

Asia, From the Editor's Desk, India's Nuclear Expansion, International, Kovvada, Nuclear Commerce, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Liability February 29, 2020 at 1:35 am 0 comments

Kumar Sundaram | Despite the hype that Trump’s recent visit generated – of an upgrade of US-India relations to a ‘Comprehensive Global Strategic Partnership’ and so on – there is very little that India stands to gain. In the absence of any new meaningful and people-centric cooperation on trade, environment, education or technology, this nuclear tango will only remain a farcical buildup at the cost of the safety and livelihoods of Indian citizens.