Karan Thapar spoke to Shyam Saran on India's vote against Iran at the IAEA in 2005. ...
09:51 AM, Mar 20, 2011
The nuclear crisis in Japan has been rated equivalent to six on the INES scale and there are fears that it could reach level seven. INES stands for International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale and has seven levels from one to seven. The scale was developed by the International Atomic Energy Agency, in association with other nuclear agencies and member countries. The scale has been in use since 1990.The INES...
03:56 PM, Mar 18, 2011
Boston: Small amount of radioactive material, blowing from Japan's damaged nuclear power plants, is expected to reach California on Friday but experts have said the radiation would be "within safe limits" and poses no major risk, according to a media report. Radioactive isotopes are being blown toward North America "high in the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean" and will reach California as soon as Friday, a report in the Los...
09:36 AM, Mar 18, 2011
Vienna: The situation at Japan's tsunami-stricken nuclear plant is "very serious," but at the moment does not appear to be deteriorating, a senior official of the UN atomic agency said on Thursday. As emergency workers frantically worked to regain control of the dangerously overheated nuclear complex, Graham Andrew told reporters "there had been no significant worsening" over the past 24 hours at the crippled plant. Andrew, a senior aide to...
08:27 AM, Mar 18, 2011
Vienna: The UN atomic energy chief said he planned to fly to Japan on Thursday to seek first-hand information of what he called a very serious situation at a stricken nuclear power plant in his home country. Director General Yukiya Amano of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said he intended to request an extraordinary meeting of its 35-nation governing board as soon as possible after he returned to Vienna....
10:17 AM, Mar 17, 2011
Tokyo: Workers were ordered to withdraw briefly from a stricken Japanese nuclear power plant on Wednesday after radiation levels surged, a development that suggested the crisis was spiraling out of control. Just hours earlier another fire broke out at the earthquake-crippled facility, which has sent low levels of radiation wafting into Tokyo in the past 24 hours, triggering fear in the capital and international alarm. Nuclear experts said the solutions...
11:51 AM, Mar 16, 2011
Tokyo: Japan's major stock index rebounded about six per cent on Wednesday's opening bell after the benchmark Nikkei 225 Stock Average lost more than 10 per cent in the previous trading session. The benchmark Nikkei 225 Stock Average gained 520.7 points, or 6.05 per cent, to trade at 9,125.85 at 9:15 am (0015 GMT), while the broader Topix index was up 46.45 points, or 6.06 per cent, at 813.18. The...
07:07 AM, Mar 16, 2011
Tokyo: Japan raced to avert a catastrophe after fire broke out on Wednesday at a nuclear plant that has sent low levels of radiation wafting into Tokyo, prompting some people to flee the capital and triggering growing international alarm at the escalating crisis. The operator of the quake-crippled plant said workers were trying to put out the blaze at the building housing the No4 reactor of the nuclear facility in...
07:00 AM, Mar 16, 2011
Oslo: Health risks from Japan's quake-hit nuclear power reactors seem fairly low and winds are likely to carry any contamination out to the Pacific without threatening other nations, experts say. Tokyo battled to avert a meltdown at three stricken reactors at the Fukushima plant in the worst nuclear accident since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, triggered by Friday's tsunami. Radiation levels were also up at the Onagawa atomic plant. "This is...
10:29 PM, Mar 13, 2011
Tokyo: Another nuclear reactor in Fukushima threatened to go out of control on Sunday morning as Japanese engineers worked to head off a meltdown in the wake of the massive 9.0 earthquake. The cooling system had stopped working in a sixth reactor, according to the Japanese news agency Kyodo. In the particularly hard-hit reactor 1 of the Fukushima nuclear plant complex, technicians had begun to flood the system with sea...
09:41 AM, Mar 13, 2011
Tokyo: Inside the troubled nuclear power plant, officials knew the risks were high when they decided to vent radioactive steam from a severely overheated reactor vessel. They knew a hydrogen explosion could occur, and it did. The decision still trumped the worst-case alternative - total nuclear meltdown. At least for the time being. The chain of events started on Friday when a magnitude-8.9 earthquake and tsunami severed electricity to the...
08:29 AM, Mar 13, 2011
Analysts and industry representatives gave different assessments of the potential dangers after an explosion blew the roof off one of Japan's nuclear power plants damaged in Friday's massive earthquake. It underlined the fluid and unpredictable situation at the Fukushima Daiichi facility north of Tokyo, from which the Japanese government said radiation leaked. The critical issue is what has happened or is happening with the reactor fuel - which contains almost...
08:11 AM, Mar 13, 2011
New Delhi: Earthquake, tsunami, and now a possible meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear power station north of Tokyo. The plant comprising six reactors generates 4.7 gigawatts of power. So when this explosion happened the worst was feared. The government said the blast was caused by water vapour in the cooling process. But plant officials confirmed several workers were injured. There could have been damage to the reactor's cooling system, which...
07:18 AM, Mar 13, 2011
Sendai: Thousands of people fled the vicinity of an earthquake-crippled Japanese nuclear plant after a radiation leak and authorities faced a fresh threat on Sunday with the failure of the cooling system in a second reactor. Operator TEPCO said it was preparing to vent some steam to relieve pressure in the No.3 reactor at the plant 240 km (150 miles) north of Tokyo -- which would release a small amount...
06:56 AM, Mar 13, 2011
Vienna: The United States said military aspects to Iran's nuclear work were "increasingly apparent", as the big six world powers urged Tehran on Wednesday to cooperate with the UN atomic watchdog to help resolve such concerns. The major powers said "the door remains open" for dialogue with Iran, but made clear the Islamic Republic must engage in substantive negotiations to find a diplomatic solution to a long-running dispute over its...
10:49 PM, Mar 09, 2011
United Nations: The head of the UN nuclear watchdog agency on Tuesday said that Iran is still not cooperating with the IAEA to show that its nuclear programme is peaceful. "Iran is not providing the necessary cooperation to enable the Agency to provide credible assurance about the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities in Iran, and therefore to conclude that all nuclear material in Iran is in peaceful activities,"...
12:03 PM, Mar 08, 2011
New Delhi: In a significant step which will enable it to do nuclear commerce, India on Wednesday signed the Convention on Supplementary Compensation (CSC), which sets parameters on a nuclear operator's financial liability, at the IAEA in Vienna. The Indian move is seen as an effort towards allaying concerns of American companies on account of the newly-enacted Nuclear Liability law by Parliament. "We can confirm that the Indian government has...
02:42 PM, Oct 27, 2010
Vienna: Pakistan became the new chair of the UN nuclear watchdog's governing body on Monday, despite being outside a global anti-nuclear arms pact and home to a nuclear smuggler who supplied Iran and North Korea. Western diplomats have suggested they do not see the choice as ideal because -- like India, North Korea and Israel -- Pakistan has shunned the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) that is at the heart of the...
05:57 PM, Sep 27, 2010
It says it would would vote against any exemption for China to sell two civil nuclear reactors to Pakistan. ...
09:40 AM, Jul 24, 2010
UN's atomic watchdog IAEA has called Delhi's radiation leak the world's biggest radiation crisis in four years. ...
10:32 PM, Apr 30, 2010
