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 …
MUMBAI: The central hall at St Xavier's College had a packed audience on Thursday, the first day of the 'people's tribunal on the safety, viability and cost efficiency of nuclear energy'. Environmental activists, researchers, project-affected persons and retired navy personnel deposed before the tribunal headed by A P Shah, former …
New Delhi: After Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh faced agitating students at Tata Institute of Social Sciences protesting against the clearance to the Jaitapur nuclear power plant, the Nuclear Power Corporation of India has promised to make a presentation to the faculty and students at the Mumbai campus. NPCIL has …
Exactly one year after the much controversial public hearing, which was held for the proposed Jaitapur nuclear power plant, the anti-project activists on Monday announced the first ever
Project will disturb a part of the prime animal habitat Will the sylvan setting of Kuntala waterfall become Adilabad's Jaitapur? The growing opposition to a proposed private sector mini-hydel power plant at the spot reinforces this feeling. The 6 MW power project on this waterfall, a unique entity in the …
Sharad Pawar To send expert panel for effects on fisheries, mangoes. While reiterating his earlier support for the Jaitapur nuclear project in Maharashtra
The green signal to the 9,900-MW Jaitapur reactor has wider implicationsIt has been in the eye of the storm almost ever since it was conceived. Last week, the government gave the go-ahead to the 9,900 MW nuclear power plant at Jaitapur in Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra. Once completed, it would …
A group of over 25 scientists, bureaucrats and activists released a statement on April 19, demanding transparency in India’s nuclear power programme. The statement was released a day after a clash between policemen and those protesting the proposed nuclear power plant at Jaitapur in Maharashtra. One person was killed and …
In a discussion with students of Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) on Wednesday, union minister for environment and forests Jairam Ramesh revealed that the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) was not happy with the public hearing conducted by the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) for the …
MUMBAI: As students of the Tata Institute of Social Science (TISS) walked up to the podium to get their medals during the 71st convocation ceremony from the chief guest, they handed him pocket-sized anti-nuclear placards in return. For, the chief guest was Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh and the students …
Bill for independent regulatory authority in monsoon session of Parliament The Central government is set to form an independent regulatory authority, which will be responsible for nuclear safety and enforcement of safety standards. A bill to that effect will be introduced in the monsoon session of Parliament this year, Union …
The nuclear power plant project at Jaitapur may have cleared the ground but has run into a hurdle with the finance ministry refusing to provide a blanket guarantee to the project funding. The Budget division of the ministry has informed Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) that the government would not …
The All India Power Engineers' Federation (AIPEF) and the National Confederation of Officers' Associations of Central Public Sector Undertakings (NCOA) have come out strongly against the proposed Jaitapur nuclear power plant. Terming it a
A new compensation package totalling over Rs450 crore for people affected by the Jaitapur nuclear power project is expected to be announced soon. The package, put together by the Maharashtra government and the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited, betters the initial Rs 15 crore compensation offered by the state …
Criticising the staunch opposition to the proposed Jaitapur nuclear power project, Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar today said that development activities cannot be stopped in fear of natural calamities. "One has to see how to overcome natural calamities. It is wrong to stop forces of development. We have not stopped …
Maharashtra government has informed Bombay high court that it has initiated criminal prosecution against two activists, including a retired high court judge, protesting against the proposed Jaitapur Nuclear Power plant for violating restrain orders. The high court is hearing a petition filed by the retired judge BG Kolse Patil and …
The nuclear disaster at Fukoshima in Japan should not stop us from going ahead with the Jaitapur nuclear plant. It means that our nuclear reactors should not only be quake- resistant, but be able to tolerate a tsunami too, Principal Scientific Adviser to Prime Minister Dr Rajagopala Chidambaram said here …
GANDHINAGAR: The decision of Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) to come up with a nuclear plant along Saurashtra sea coast is likely to suffer a setback. Well-placed Sachivalaya sources have said that the Gujarat government is "already in two minds" whether to go ahead with the NPCIL's plan …
Jaitapur n-plant will put the extremely rich bio-diversity area to great risk and destroy environment, warn activists Activists who took part in a national anti-nuclear plant yatra from Tarapur, the site of the country's oldest nuclear reactor, to Jaitapur earlier this week have taken strong exception to the Union Government's …
