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Chalk River protests: Canada’s indigenous communities struggle against proposed nuclear dump

Antinuclear Movement, Canada, Climate Change and Nuclear Power, Community Updates, Environmental Impacts of Nuclear Power, International, Nuclear and water July 23, 2024 at 9:24 pm 0 comments

Jacksen Friske | Canadian Geographic Protesters gather outside of the Supreme Court to oppose nuclear dump development near Ottawa River Protester Dan Nisbet standing in support with his pet dog. (Photo: Jacksen Friske) Protesters recently gathered outside the Supreme Court of Canada in Ottawa to support the legalRead More

Climate Change will Unearth Buried Nuclear Waste: US Federal Accountability Office

Anthropocene, Climate Change and Nuclear Power, Environmental Impacts of Nuclear Power, Nuclear Age, Nuclear America, Nuclear and Animals, Nuclear and Food, Nuclear and non-humans, Nuclear and Society, Nuclear and water, Nuclear Anthropocene, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear History, Nuclear Safety, Nuclear Technology, Nuclear Waste March 1, 2024 at 5:41 pm 0 comments

Climate change could unearth buried US nuclear waste Anita Hofschneider | Mother Jones This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Ariana Tibon was in college at the University of Hawaiʻi in 2017 when she saw the photo online: a black-and-white picture of a manRead More

The charade of the Kudankulam waste repository: How India’s nuclear establishment hoodwinked the courts

Latest March 15, 2022 at 10:46 pm 0 comments

S P Udayakumar | When the Supreme Court gave a green signal to the Koodankulam reactors 1 & 2, it laid out 15 conditions for the nuclear department to fulfil and building a Deep Geological Repository (DGR) by 2018 was one of them. When there was no progress on this, Poovulagin Nanbargal (Friends of the Earth) in Chennai approached the SC again and the nuclear department sought additional time. On July 2, 2018 the SC granted time until April 30, 2022. But nothing has happened on the DGR front so far.

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