Japan’s nuclear watchdog disqualifies a reactor for the first time since Fukushima disaster
Japan’s nuclear watchdog on Wednesday formally disqualified a reactor in the country’s north-central region for a restart, ...
Okhla waste plant: Delhi govt sees it as solution, residents say their lives are being poisoned
Residents living near the Okhla waste-to-energy plant in Delhi have reported severe health issues due to toxic emissions.
Weeks after a chemical plant inferno, nearby residents say they’re suffering prolonged illnesses and financial upheaval
The opaque plumes of noxious smoke billowing out of a Georgia chemical plant are long gone. But the relentless effects of the BioLab fire in Conyers are still visible, residents say – from exacerbated ...
Ukraine says it launched drone attack on Russian chemical plant
Ukraine launched a drone attack on a Russian chemical plant in the western city of Tula overnight on Friday into Saturday, ...
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From electric to people power: historic plant wins gong
With its whirring engines and towering smoke stacks, Mildura's power station was rarely out of the news as a technological ...
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New powerful reactor sucks CO2 from factory smoke without using extra heat
Researchers from the Norway-based research company, SINTEF, have designed a simpler carbon capture technology called a ...
Lithium-ion battery fires on the rise: Chicago Fire Department takes action
Lithium-ion batteries, which power many everyday devices, have the potential to cause serious harm or death if they are flawed, and the Chicago Fire Department is now tracking these fires due to ...
Cause of Augusta paint plant fire released
ASRC Industrial, parent of Gulf Coast Industrial, confirms that, earlier today, an isolated fire occurred at Gulf Coast ...
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Researchers identify major contributing factors to American crisis: 'Treating the air we all breathe like their sewer'
When a handful of facilities create such massive amounts of pollution, it affects everyone's health and drives up our ...
Take out some of the nuclear fuel remnants of the Fukushima nuclear power plant...For the first time since the 2011 accident.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said today (2nd) that it has taken a small amount of nuclear fuel debris inside the accident reactor at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi ...
The Georgia Chemical Disaster Is a Warning
Officials in Rockdale County, where the fire broke out, have filed a federal lawsuit against BioLab, the company that owns ...
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New Age ritual sends ’bad energies’ and foreign wild plants up in smoke
A commercialized New Age ritual is causing not only ’unwanted energies’ to go up in smoke, but also foreign wild plants. A study by Utrecht University researchers Isabela Pombo Geertsma and Anastasia ...