Topic: Industrial Accidents And Disasters

NGOs slam London Olympics chief over Dow stand

The NGOs fighting for the rights of Bhopal gas tragedy victims today slammed Olympic organising committee chief Paul Deighton for his statement...

Music with a message

Music is a universal language - and the message the Messiah Project's Friendship Concert Tour in Japan is offering is one of hope and joy.. . The...
Financial institutions have entered a final stage of negotiations for loaning an additional 1 trillion yen ($12.97 billion) to embattled Tokyo...

Road map released for Fukushima decontamination

The Environment Ministry released a road map on Jan. 26 for decontaminating areas around the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, hoping to provide...
New submitter Required Snark writes "UC Davis researchers have found a mechanism where the sodium in sea water can cause uranium nano-particles to...
When you stand in the center of Japan's exclusion zone, there is absolute silence. The exclusion zone is the 20-kilometer (12-mile) radius around ...
Sany Heavy Industry Co. (600031), the construction-equipment maker run by China's richest man, agreed to buy German concrete pump maker Putzmeister...

The human cost of technology

The New York Times on the human cost of industrial accidents at Apple's foreign suppliers: . Troubling, the groups say, is some suppliers'...
Harperdog writes "Gabrielle Hecht has an interesting piece on the subcontracted workers of the nuclear energy industry, in Japan and elsewhere...

Germany to end subsidies for solar power

John MacAyealGermany to end subsidies for solar powerhttp://bizmology.hoovers.com/?p=477542012-01-23T20:31:27Z2012-01-23T20:24:01ZAlarmed by the...