The Centre on Saturday made it clear there was no plan to dump Uranium waste from the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in defunct gold mines at Kolar Gold Fields (KGF) in Karnataka. Amid media reports that Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd has decided to dump the uranium waste in KGF, Minister of State in PMO V Narayanasamy said the waste will not be taken to KGF. ...
03:01 PM, Nov 24, 2012
Kolar: Protests have broken out in Karnataka's Kolar district after reports that the government is planning to dump nuclear waste from the Kudankulam nuclear power plant into the defunct gold mines. Residents of Kolar observed a bandh on Friday against the move and backed by the MLAs and MPs. The bandh came two days after a government reply to the Supreme Court that waste from the Kudankulam nuclear plant will...
05:17 PM, Nov 23, 2012
Washington: The Obama administration has won a legal battle in the fight over where to bury US nuclear waste. The federal appeals court in Washington on Friday ruled against South Carolina and Washington State, which want to ship radioactive spent nuclear fuel to a repository 90 miles (145 kilometers) from Las Vegas at Yucca Mountain. Congress chose Yucca Mountain as the leading candidate for waste disposal. But opponents are concerned...
02:49 AM, Jul 02, 2011
