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The multi-purpose port, India’s biggest refinery and the Jaitapur nuclear plant threaten the coast's ecology. In its rush to present a business-friendly face, the State government is now betting on the ecologically-rich Konkan coastline, where three proposed projects — a port which will also include a thermal power plant among …
Festering question marks over the EPR’s robustness and added worries of cost-related viability of new projects based on this technology are areas of concern The decks may have been cleared for what would be the world’s largest nuclear power generating station by net electrical power rating, with an early-2017 target …
India’s nuclear establishment has denied reports by a US-based media organisation, including one critical of the country’s nuclear safety record, terming them "deliberate distortion of facts” and “curiously timed” just when New Delhi was pushing fast forward on the road to nuclear energy. The articles, by well-known author Adrian Levy, …
Say in light of its own experience, Japan should not put profits of its nuclear industry before the environment. CLAIMING that in the wake of opposition to nuclear power in Japan, the nuclear industry there was protecting its profits by getting into a civil nuclear agreement with India, the Maharashtra-based …
The proposed 9900 MW Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project (JNPP) has run into fresh trouble with the partial and conditional five-year environmental clearance granted to it on November 26, 2010 lapsing last week. Anti-nuclear plant activists have written to Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar with a request to issue stop work …
INDORE: Graduation function of the fifteenth batch of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) training school was organized at Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore (RRCAT) here on Sunday. Certificates were given away to seven training scientific officers (TSOs) and seventeen PhD and MTech students. Addressing the gathering, chairman, Atomic …
A large police force today evicted farmers living on a piece of land acquired by the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) for setting up of their power project at Gorakhpur. The authorities razed their houses, destroyed their crops, carted away their belongings as well as cattle. Led by …
The proposed 6,000 MW nuclear power plant at Mithivirdi in Bhavnagar faces further delay despite being accorded the crucial Coastal Regulatory Zone (CRZ) clearance. This is mainly because the land acquisition process for the plant cannot begin till the new land acquisition act is in place. Right to Fair Compensation …
Maha CM warns protesters Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis is said to have warned the Shiv Sena leadership that the government would crack down on those holding protests against the Jaitapur plant. Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray has come out against the Jaitapur nuclear project, it is not clear whether …
Asks NPCIL to comply with 10 conditions including application of safety measures suggested after Fukushima accident. India's nuclear power regulator the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) has given its clearance for the erection of major equipment at the two units of 700 MW each (7 & 8) of Rajasthan Atomic …
AHMEDABAD: Nearly six years after it was announced, the 6,000 MW nuclear power plant at Mithivirdi, a coastal hamlet some 40 km from Bhavnagar, is close to getting the crucial coastal regulatory zone (CRZ) clearance. The project has been recommended for the clearance by the expert appraisal committee of the …
The maximum compensation that nuclear suppliers will have to pay in case of a mishap will be pegged at ₹2,160 crore. In a statement, the Ministry of External Affairs points out that the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Act of 2010 (CLND) presently prescribes that the maximum amount of liability …
Experts hope with India and the US reaching an agreement on operationalising a civil nuclear deal between the two countries, work on the 6,600-Mw Mithi Virdi and 9,564-Mw Kowada nuclear power projects will be expedited. In June 2012, state-run Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) had entered into an …
Larsen & Toubro hopes to build nuclear reactors in partnership with Westinghouse Electric Company and is exploring other partnerships after India and the US cleared the way for implementing a bilateral agreement signed in 2008. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Barack Obama, who was the chief guest at …
Washington and New Delhi have announced they have bridged the gulf that has deterred US nuclear power generation companies from entering the Indian market since 2008, when the US-India civil nuclear agreement was signed. On Sunday, President Barack Obama hailed the "breakthrough" agreement after talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. …
Farmers of Gorakhpur village in Fatehabad district of Haryana, whose land was acquired for setting up country's largest 2,800 MW nuclear power plant, are now claiming that the state failed to keep the promises made while taking their consent for acquiring the property. The villagers have now submitted a complaint …
Notwithstanding the opposition of its junior partner Shiv Sena in Maharashtra, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has said the 9,900-Mw nuclear power project at Jaitapur in the coastal Ratnagiri district will go ahead as planned. It said the project will be developed by the Nuclear Power Corporation (NPC) and that …
Judgement of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Promoters and Builders Association of Pune Versus The State of Maharashtra & Ors dated 03/12/2014 regarding the judgment of the Bombay High Court dated 8.10.2010, inter alia, holding that “excavation activity even for the purposes of laying foundation of …
NPCIL allowed to feed infirm power into grid till January 22. The Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) Unit 1 is expected to go commercial by January 22. Because of the problems in the turbine, the commercial run could not be started by October 22, the Nuclear Power Corporation of India …
