Both BPI France and SFIL are French government-owned financial institutions. Loan is a major component of EDF and NPCIL negotiations. French major EDF, which has got the contract for building reactors for the Jaitapur nuclear power plant, has said India will have to provide a sovereign guarantee to two other …
Both BPI France and SFIL are French government-owned financial institutions. Loan is a major component of EDF and NPCIL negotiations. French major EDF, which has got the contract for building reactors for the Jaitapur nuclear power plant, has said India will have to provide a sovereign guarantee to two other …
France’s EDF Group hopes that the terms of the deal to build a nuclear power plant in Jaitapur will be finalised by December 2018. EDF and Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd signed an Industrial Way Forward Agreement to develop the power plant during French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to …
The Indian official added that the two countries are yet to decide on several important aspects like terms of credit, which the EDF will give to the NPCIL, and the techno-commercial aspect, that includes cost per unit. India and France are likely to sign a framework agreement for expediting the …
NEW DELHI: Technological and financial concerns as well as differences over taking responsibility for the construction of the proposed 10,000-mw nuclear power plant at Jaitapur in Maharashtra are weighing down efforts to fast-track the general framework agreement ahead of French president Emmanuel Macron's visit in December. Macron will be in …
EDF proposes to take care of engineering and a large share of procurement and wants the Nuclear Power Corporation of India to take care of construction. A French firm, which is to build six atomic reactors at Jaitapur, has submitted a fresh plan to the NPCIL proposing to share a …
Even as China has indicated its unwillingness to support India's attempt to enter the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), the country will still go ahead with its plans to have 63,000 MW of nuclear capacity by 2032. "We want to be a part of the NSG. We are in talks with …
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 …
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 …
New India-France Agreement To Conform To `Make In India' Campaign After Prime Minister Narendra Modi's recent visit to France, the controversial and trouble-ridden Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project in Maharashtra's Ratnagiri district moved a step forward.The Nuclear Power Corporation and a French firm, Areva, signed what is known as a pre-engineering …
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 …
India and the US achieving a breakthrough in operationalisation of the stalled nuclear deal, it is believed, will remove impediments for several nuclear projects that are stalled in the country. However, in spite of the deal, the 9,900 mega watt Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project still faces a significant hurdle in …
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 …
The state wing of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi revert the decision of environmental clearance to the Jaitapur nuclear power project in Maharashtra on the same grounds that he reverted the environmental impact assessment (EIA) report for the Mithivirdi nuclear power project …
Environment Minister has now to decide on go-ahead for the plan prepared in consultation with BNHS and state forests and wildlife dept Biodiversity conservation plan for the Jaitapur nuclear power project in poll-bound Maharashtra has got the approval of a high-powered panel of the Environment Ministry. The decision was taken …
Nuclear experts bat for quick resolution of Liability issue The Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) and Nuclear Power Corporation (NPC) on Tuesday said that nuclear capacity through indigenous reactors and reactors with international cooperation would be increased to 17,080 Mw by 2022, from the present level of 5,780 Mw. DAE …
Allaying France’s apprehension stemming out of the Shiv Sena’s opposition to the nuclear power plant at Jaitapur, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has conveyed to the French government that there is “no rethink” on the proposed nuclear power project, top sources told The Indian Express. Sources said this was conveyed at …
Liability law not an issue, says French Foreign Minister As India and France inch towards a deal on setting up two nuclear power reactors at Jaitapur in Maharashtra, issues other than the nuclear liability law are holding back the clearance of this ambitious power project. Diplomatic sources told The Hindu …
IN A move to address the issue of liability, which has held up deals with several countries, the government has decided to form a nuclear insurance pool having a number of stakeholders to meet the requirement of a financial cover in case of a mishap. The Department of Atomic Energy …
