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 …
Farmers in Haryana have stepped up their campaign against the setting up of the Gorakhpur Nuclear Power Plant in the Fatehabad district of the state. The Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) has earmarked over 628 hectares of land to set up a 2,800-MW power plant which will use …
The overconfidence shown by Indian officials on nuclear safety is unfounded and alarming MV Ramana, Physicist, Program On Science and Global Security, Princeton University PRIME MINISTER Manmohan Singh’s seemingly unfounded allegations about the funding of the people’s movement against the Koodankulam nuclear plant has shifted attention away from the real …
The government today said there will be no compromise on nuclear safety or livelihood of any section of society in India's pursuit of atomic power, a statement that comes against the backdrop of anti-nuclear protests in Kudankulam and Jaitapur. Addressing a joint sitting of Parliament, President Pratibha Patil asserted that …
Villagers opposing the 10,000 MW Jaitapur nuclear power project in Maharashtra's Ratnagiri district have decided to launch an economic non-cooperation movement against Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd. About 4,000 locals participated in a protest rally from Ratnagiri to Jaitapur on Sunday. About 700 of them signed a pledge that …
MUMBAI: The anti-Jaitapur nuclear plant pitch rose a notch higher on Sunday with demonstrations and rallies against the nuclear power plant being held at a number of places across the state. To mark the first year of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, demonstrations against Jaitapur project and other nuclear …
That Predictable Strong Arm Anti-GM crop NGOs come under fire as a draft bill threatens arrest of activists who provoke fear against GM technology without “scientific evidence” NGOs “linked to the Church” under fire for opposing uranium mining in West Khasi Hills, Meghalaya, in 2010 Medecins Sans Frontieres under the …
Several members of Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s hand-picked National Advisory Council (NAC) have asked the government to stop harassing the anti-nuclear activists in Koodankulam. These include economist A.K. Sivakumar, activists Aruna Roy and Harsh Munder. They are amongst a group of over 50 intellectuals, including historian Romilla Thapar, writer Arundhati …
Against the backdrop of the Centre initiating action against certain NGOs opposing the Kudankulam nuclear plant, Congress' Maharashtra unit demanded a probe into "motives and funding patterns" of private groups and Shiv Sena that are opposing Jaitapur atomic power project. Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan remained noncommittal over the demand …
Rubbishing allegations of foreign funding to the proposed Jaitapur nuclear power project in Ratnagiri district, Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray today said that those who are willing to go ahead with the project should be probed. "If somebody feels that money is being given to protest against the Jaitapur …
Taking lessons from the cancellation of his programme in Ratnagiri, eminent nuclear scientist and a strong supporter of the proposed 9,900 MW Jaitapur nuclear power plant, Anil Kakodkar avoided speaking about the Jaitapur plant in his lecture on ‘Preparing for our secure energy future’ on Monday at the Agharkar Research …
The Coalition for a GM-Free India has expressed “outrage” at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's statement that foreign-funded NGOs were the reason for the moratorium on Bt brinjal. “It is a clear attempt to undermine and disrespect the exercise of democratic rights by the citizens of this country regarding critical issues …
The Shiv Sena on Monday did not allow the city-based Agharkar Research Institute (ARI) — funded by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) — to hold discussion on the Jaitapur nuclear power plant project during its Science Day celebrations. It forced ARI to give in writing that there will …
MUMBAI: Nuclear scientist Dr Anil Kakodkar's speech in favour of the Jaitapur N-plant, scheduled for Tuesday in Ratnagiri, has been cancelled following threats by the Shiv Sena. Sena CEO Uddhav Thackeray saw nothing wrong in the Sainiks' threat to Kakodkar. "In fact, the Jaitapur nuclear plant is a threat to …
With the resettlement and rehabilitation (R&R;) package for the locals displaced by the proposed nuclear power plant at Kovvada in its final stages, officials indicate that the final package will have best features of the latest Land Acquisition Act. The ministry of environment has directed the Nuclear Power Corpora-tion of …
Bringing some degree of clarity to the negotiations on the proposed Jaitapur nuclear power plant, France said construction of the European Pressurised Reactor (EPR) plant could start in less than a year’s time. Following the Fukushima nuclear accident and protests at Jaitapur, signing of a commercial agreement between French company …
In the course of a technical review, the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) has found that the original set of computer systems accompanying French nuclear major Areva’s EPR reactor units need “further reinforcement” to meet the regulatory requirements. A set of two EPR units are to be deployed …
Shiv Sena’s changed priorities in the wake of upcoming Zilla Parishad (ZP) elections seem to have put the anti-Jaitapur Nuclear Power Plant (JNPP) struggle in a jeopardy. The planned jail bharo agitation in and around JNPP site area on January 24 and 25 has been postponed till the time ZP …
Taking cue from Tamil Nadu villagers protesting against the 2,000-Mw Kudankulam nuclear power project, their counterparts in Maharashtra have decided to step up their agitation against the proposed plant at Madban along the Konkan Coast. Project-affected persons from 10 villages in the vicinity of the project site have announced a …
A US-based geologist has dismissed Maharashtra government's claim over the safety of the proposed nuclear plant site at Jaitapur, stating that the site is vulnerable to quakes. "Since Jaitapur lies in the same compressional stress regime that has been responsible for generating two major earthquakes at Latur and Koyna in …
Negotiations with French company Areva on the nuclear plant at Jaitapur could restart soon, a senior official of the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) said on Monday. The talks were stalled owing to a safety review of all the nuclear plants by the French Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN). …
