Reply filed by the Director, Environment-cum-Special Secretary, Forest, Environment and Climate Change Department, Odisha and Member Secretary, Odisha Coastal Zone Management Authority, May 1, 2025. NGT, had registered suo motu in response to the news item in the Hindu, May 4, 2024 titled "Swell waves likely to strike coastal areas …
Designing and running nuclear power requires an entirely different mode of planning and assessment than possible with conventional risk analysis. There is little indication that the existing organisational culture of the Department of Atomic Energy permits such “over-the-horizon” creative thinking as is required.
Even as Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) generated a record 40.8 per cent more electricity in 2010-11, the State-owned body said that the government is looking at creating a joint venture which will consider holding stakes in uranium mines in foreign countries in a bid to get assured and …
Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) has submitted its internal safety assessment report, which was made in the light of the Japan nuclear crisis, to the Department of Atomic Energy. As part of efforts to revisit the safety of Indian nuclear power plants, four task-forces were set up to assess …
The DY Patil University (DYPU) of Kolhapur is associated with the Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project (JNPP). The department of atomic energy (DAE) and the Board of Research In Nuclear Sciences (BRNS) have awarded three projects to the varsity to carry out studies on baseline levels of radioactivity and assessment of …
The severe quake that hit Japan earlier this month and the devastating tsunami that followed it were unfortunate. These two events triggered a series of explosions at Fukushima Daiichi and a few other nuclear power installations. The Dept. of Atomic Energy (DAE) quickly got into a denial mode saying that …
In the backdrop of earthquake and tsunami affecting some of the nuclear power plants in Japan, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh informed the Parliament on Monday that the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) and its agencies have been directed to carry out urgent technical review of all safety systems of nuclear …
The government has approved the construction of a 9900 MW (megawatt) nuclear park at Jaitapur in Ratnagiri district. The Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL), a public sector undertaking of the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), will own this mega power project. The project will have six European pressurised …
NEW DELHI: Firm on the need to increase nuclear power generation, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh on Monday said given the low levels of nuclear power generation, the issue of handling waste was one of management. However, as India
In a possible way around the practical hurdles posed by the supplier liability clause in the civil nuclear liability law, the government is all set to make it clear in the rules and regulations of the law that a supplier will be liable only for a fixed time period and …
France, India Ink Multi-Billion-$ N-Deals FRANCE and India signed multi-billion-dollar agreements that will usher in an era of civilian nuclear energy in this country, two years after the US helped end India
Shillong: NGOs opposing the proposed uranium-mining project in the State have told DAE and UCIL officials, in no uncertain terms, to tell the Centre to abandon its idea of mining uranium here. "We told them to forget uranium from Meghalaya. We also told them not to return since we are …
Bringing to bear his political weight amid, so far, unsuccessful efforts at the official level to bridge differences on a range of critical issues, US President Barack Obama is learnt to have written a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh conveying America
The approval is sub-ject to the conditions that there will be no cutting of trees and damage to forest cover. The ministry has also asked DAE to take adequate measures to minimise the effect of tunnelling and to dispose rock debris. Decks were cleared on Monday for setting up an …
The 10,000-MW nuclear power projects at seven sites, including Haripur in East Midnapore, has been approved by Centre and the work of setting up the reactors can be started very soon with the help of Russia, said Mr Srikumar Banerjee, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission today. He was speaking …
