Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
Mumbai’s Tata Memorial Centre has begun work to set up a community-based cancer registry and carry out health surveys to document the precise occurrence of cancer, birth defects and other illnesses around India’s atomic power plants. The move to study the incidence of the disease comes in the wake of …
CHENNAI: The Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd. (NPCIL) Friday announced that the first of the two 1,000 MW units of Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) is expected to start commercial operations this August and the second unit in March 2013. The announcement on NPCIL's website as to the expected …
Fatehabad: Work for the setting up of the proposed nuclear power plant at Gorakhpur by the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL), which is already behind schedule, is likely to be delayed further now. The NPCIL has not been able to deposit funds for distribution among farmers as compensation …
There will be no compromise on the safety of atomic plants and it will be harmful to close the additional source of energy. It will be harmful for the country to pass ordinance on denial of nuclear power, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asserted in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday. Dr. …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh stated in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday that it would be harmful if the country gave up the option of tapping nuclear energy as an additional source of electricity. Fielding a pointed query from Shiv Sena floor leader Anant Geete during Question Hour, the Prime Minister …
Fatehabad: Senior officers of Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) had a tough time answering questions of medicos on safety aspects even as agitating farmers launched a fresh movement against the Gorakhpur atomic power project today. The NPCIL’s scientific meet last night with members of the local chapter of …
“PIO failed to explain reasons for withholding the reports” The Central Information Commission (CIC) has directed the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) to host in its website before May 30 the Safety Analysis Report, Site Evaluation Report and Environmental Impact Assessment Report regarding the two reactors to be …
New Delhi: Reports relating to safety, site evaluation and environmental impact assessment of the controversial Kudankulam nuclear power plant should be made public, the Central Information Commission has said. The commission, however, allowed certain portions that have been exempted from disclosure under the RTI Act to be kept a secret. …
A public hearing for granting environment clearance to the upcoming 4 X 700 MW Haryana Atomic Power Project will be held at Gorakhpur in Haryana on July 17, 2012. Read and share this EIA report of the project. The Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) is intended to setup …
Responding to chief minister J. Jayalalithaa’s repeated demand for 100 per cent allocation of power from the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP), Atomic Energy Commission chairman, Sreekumar Banerjee and NPCIL chairman, S.K. Jain assured at a joint press conference on Thursday that they would recommend an increase in Tamil Nadu’s …
TIRUNELVELI: The second unit of the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant Project (KKNPP) may become operational by year-end, hinted Atomic Energy Commission chairman and Department of Atomic Energy secretary Srikumar Banerjee. Banerjee, who addressed presspersons along with Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) managing director S K Jain at the …
Sometimes, those who are able to understand complexities are flummoxed by the simplest of things. The country's atomic establishment has realised this, ruefully, and at much cost. While scientists and `nucleocrats' were busy seeking international tie-ups and finding fuel for ambitious nuclear power projects, they missed out one crucial factor. …
Upset with the Tamil Nadu government for going back on its assurances, the People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) on Monday announced that it would resume an indefinite hunger strike from May 1 against the two 1,000 MW plants at Kudankulam. "We have decided to go on hunger protest once …
Expressing satisfaction over the progress in preparing the first reactor of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project for commissioning, Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) Chairman and Managing Director S.K. Jain has said the KKNPP was waiting for the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board's clearance for the opening of the reactor pressure …
Instead of coercing the people fighting against injustice and life-threatening projects like Kudankulam Nuclear Power Projects, these people should be protected in a democratic set-up, social activist Neeraj Jain said. Speaking to reporters here on Thursday, Mr. Neeraj, who was here to deliver lecture at Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, told reporters …
An 18-member team of Russian scientists from Atomstroy Export and top NPCIL officials visited the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) in order to speed up the commissioning of Reactor-1. Atomstroy Export is a Russian engineering company of the state-owned ‘Rosatom’ Corporation involved in constructing nuclear reactors abroad. It has constructed …
AREVA Solar, an AREVA subsidiary, has been awarded a contract by Reliance Power to build a 250 MW concentrated solar power (CSP) in Rajasthan. AREVA said under the contract, it will build two 125 MW CSP plants using its Compact Linear Fresnel Reflector (CLFR) technology and will provide construction management …
In a measure to allay Sri Lanka's fears on the Kudankulam nuclear plant in India's Southern coast, India said today that the plant has high safety standards and a legal mechanism to deal with the trans-boundary liability issues. The Kudankulam plant in the state of Tamil Nadu, just 250 km …
After Kakarapar Atomic Power Station (KAPS) in Gujarat, the State-owned aluminium major Nalco is looking to set up another nuclear power plant, in collaboration with the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL). An NPCIL-Nalco joint venture is already executing unit 3 and 4 of Kakarapar Atomic Power Station (KAPS) …
