Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Rajaram Vs State of Haryana dated 27/05/2025. By the execution application, the applicant was seeking compliance of the NGT order July 5, 2024 passed in OA No. 735/2024. In the OA, the applicant has raised the grievance in respect of …
AMIDST WIDESPREAD DISBELIEF, HARIPUR, THE SITE FOR THE INDO-RUSSIAN NUCLEAR POWER PLANT, IS RIPE FOR ANOTHER CIVIL WAR, SAYS PARTHA DASGUPTA RAMPRASAD BAR, a bespectacled man in his mid-50s, was stitching a blue fishnet under a palm-tree when he saw this correspondent and his camera-wielding colleague. One could immediately see …
Bill to provide for civil liability for nuclear damage, appointment of claims commissioner, establishment of nuclear damage claims commission and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. The Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill, 2010 was introduced in the Lok Sabha on May 7, 2010. The main features of the …
The government has decided to introduce in the Lok Sabha on Friday the Civil Liabilities for Nuclear Damage Bill that seeks to define the liabilities of the operator of a nuclear power plant in the event of an accident. The Bill, which was originally supposed to be introduced on March …
After a brief blip caused by the global economic slowdown, the electricity business in China is back to normal: in other words, it is buzzing. On April 26th Huaneng Power, the country
Review by Greenpeace on regulations and emergency procedures relating to radiological facilities in India, in response to the Mayapuri accident. Exposes inadequacy in existing policies & lists recommendations for emergency preparedness & management of radiation-related incidents.India plans to have 20,000 MW of nuclear energy by 2020 and 63,000 MW by …
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) recently expanded its reporting of energy-related carbon dioxide emissions starting in the fall of 2009. This analysis examines the level and drivers of energy-related carbon dioxide emissions in 2009.
The Mayapuri accident is not a one-off occurrence. This document lists 16 occasions in which sources of radiation have been lost, stolen or misplaced from radiological facilities in India over the last ten years. The document also lists some accounts of accidents and near-misses in the country
Indian nuclear industry, despite years of isolation, has reached full maturity and should now be a willing partner in the international nuclear market without compromising its interests and principles. The legislation to fix Liability for Nuclear Damage shall suit its own ethos and needs.
HYDERABAD: With the Andhra Pradesh government declaring a strong intent to promote nuclear power, two nuclear energy parks at Kovvada (Srikakulam district) and Nizampatnam (Guntur) are to be established with a whopping investment of over Rs. 1,50,000 crore. Disclosing this to reporters here on Thursday, Nuclear Power Corporation of India …
The nuclear summit of 47 countries that was convened by the United States skirted the real issues of proliferation and disarmament of atomic weapons by the nuclear weapon states. Instead, the hyped up discourse was centred on preventing the transfer of nuclear weapons to non-state actors or
RASHME SEHGAL NEW DELHI `The govt was keen to have the N-facilities insured but no Indian insurance company wanted to take such a risk' While the govern ment is keen to push the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill (CLNDB) 2010 in Parliament, it turns out that none of its …
KEEN to push through the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill, the government reiterated its offer to make changes in the proposed legislation, including increasing the liability amount. In what appeared to be a suggestion for a quid pro quo, the government said that changes could be considered by the …
Liability provisions should be revised periodically to ensure they are adequate and aligned with international practice Anshu Bharadwaj / April 22, 2010, 0:09 IST The government has recently drafted the
Kanika Datta / New Delhi April 20, 2010, 1:21 IST Getting the requisite numbers to pass the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill 2010 in the Lok Sabha may be the least of the United Progressive Alliance
Even as the threat of a fourth round of UN sanction loomed large over it, Iran appeared to have partially succeeded in ending its global isolation on the nuclear issue if one were to draw any conclusion from the two-day international conference on nuclear disarmament which ended in Tehran tonight. …
The draft nuclear liability bill indemnifies the supplier of a nuclear plant and caps the liability of the operator in the event of an accident. The indemnity for suppliers is meant to please multinational plant vendors who wish to be free of liability even for accidents that result from a …
Two-day event will be attended by 50 nations, including India, Russia & China Under mounting global pressure to abandon its controversial nuclear programme, Iran hosts a two-day international conference here on Saturday on nuclear disarmament in a move clearly aimed at countering the high-profile Nuclear Security Summit convened by US …
