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 …
Hardening its stand, an anti-nuclear forum spearheading the stir against Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP) in Tirunelveli today said a series of protests had been planned there in the coming days, including a “wailing protest” on 30 January, death anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. “We are fighting for our right to …
French, Russian regulators say no need to change designs of projects at Jaitapur and Kundankulam. India’s nuclear capacity addition programme, which has seen opposition from local villagers and experts countrywide, has got a boost following safety assurances from French and Russian nuclear safety regulators associated with pertinent projects in Maharashtra …
While exhibits from the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) have been a regular at IIT Bombay’s Techfest, for the first time at this year’s festival, NPCIL addressed the students to dispel myths and fears about nuclear energy. In the wake of the Fukushima disaster last year, NPCIL had …
French major Areva also claims safety of EPRs, but critics not convinced. The evolutionary pressurised reactors (EPRs) that Areva is interested in supplying to the Nuclear Power Corporation (NPC) as part of the proposed Jaitapur nuclear power in Maharashtra will offer 15 per cent savings on uranium per mega-watt produced …
Effect to vary, though power projects dependent on imported equipment and foreign borrowing may see major cost issue. The rupee’s depreciation is set to hit infrastructure sector projects dependent on international market borrowings and imported equipment in a big way. Experts apprehend that the over 20 per cent slide in …
Supported by the Opposition Shiv Sena, residents of a few villages of southwestern Maharashtra today stepped up their strong opposition to the proposed 9,900-Mw plant in their area of Jaitapur. As former Atomic Energy Commission chief Anil Kakodkar shared the dais with its current chairman Srikumar Banerjee for the first …
Declaring his party’s solidarity with the people of Konkan, Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday said if they do not want the atomic power project in Jaitapur, then his party will not let it happen. Uddhav’s statement came in front of eminent nuclear scientists of the country, Dr …
Almost two weeks after India announced its much-awaited rules for nuclear liability, France on Tuesday expressed satisfaction that the new rules put responsibility on all the stakeholders, foreign as well as domestic entities. This is the first response from the French government after the new rules were announced on November …
“You cannot start a reactor if you don't have full confidence of local people” Chairperson of the Atomic Energy Commission of France Bernard Bigot on Monday said the controversial European Pressurized Reactor (EPR) technology was re-evaluated after the Fukushima disaster and it had got the green signal from the nuclear …
Although India has a long written record, the shaking intensity of few damaging earthquakes that occurred before AD 1800, can be quantified. Since reliable estimates of future shaking near planned nuclear power plants depend on the extrapolation of historical earthquake data spanning many centuries, estimates of seismic risk to the …
No reliable historical seismic record in the region before 1800 A.D. While the government is determined to build a nuclear power plant at Jaitapur in Ratnagiri district, a new paper in journal Current Science has said that the apparent seismic silence of Jaitapur does not mean that an earthquake cannot …
Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office V. Narayanasamy on Wednesday briefed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the situation in Kudankulam in Tamil Nadu, where an agitation is on against the commissioning of the nuclear power plant. Later speaking to journalists, Mr. Narayanasamy expressed hope that the stalemate would …
MUMBAI: In a victory for anti-Jaitapur nuclear plant activists who claimed their fundamental rights to speech and movement were being trampled upon, the Bombay high court directed the state government not to restrain them from entering Ratnagiri district. A division bench of Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice Roshan Dalvi …
The anti-Koodankulam nuclear power project (KKNPP) struggle of the people’s movement against nuclear energy (PMANE) has set off a chain reaction, boosting the other anti-nuke movements in the country. Launched three months ago, the anti-KKNPP struggle, coordinated by PMANE, however, is not a sudden upsurge against the 2x1000 MW reactors …
Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan said on Wednesday that Mumbai’s peculiar geography and the need to maintain the city’s economic vibrancy in spite of overcrowding are challenges before the government as it tries to implement major infrastructure, housing and transport projects. Mumbai faces “unique geographical challenges” apart from challenges of land …
The Democratic Front government is not happy with the Centre’s decision to extend the moratorium on important projects in coastal Konkan, arguing that it would stall the pace of development in the region. The ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) has informed the state government about its decision to extend …
The ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) has extended the moratorium imposed on projects in Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg districts of Maharashtra till December. In a notification issued last week, MoEF advisor Nalini Bhat said the moratorium had been extended because the ministry had received the report of the Western Ghat …
It is not a car factory where you can switch off the systems: NPCIL chairman The Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) ran the risk of being seriously damaged with blockades creating a major impediment in ensuring that the plant systems functioned at a minimal level, scientists warned on Friday. “In …
State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) plans to take up to 49% stake in one of the five proposed nuclear power plants of Nuclear Power Corp of India Ltd (NPCIL). "We are in discussions with NPCIL for incorporating a joint venture for setting up a nuclear power plant. NPCIL …
State-owned Oil & Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) plans to take up to 49 per cent stake in one of the five proposed nuclear power plants of Nuclear Power Corp of India Ltd (NPCIL). "We’re in discussions with NPCIL for incorporating a joint venture for setting up a nuclear power plant. …
