Nuclear Power

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding poor handling of the fly ash by Rajiv Gandhi Thermal Power Plant, Khedar, Hisar district, Haryana, 27/05/2025

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 …

India looks to 'foreign' help to save nuke deal

Illustration courtesy: Ajit Ninan (TOI) NEW DELHI: Having left the nuclear deal almost until the eleventh hour, India and its international allies are trying to scrounge for ways to save the nuclear deal

Gordon Brown wants to increase nuclear capacity

IN THE face of soaring oil prices, uk Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said that the country needs to increase its nuclear power capacity. Brown

N. Korea demolishes n-tower

P. S. Suryanarayana The 25-metre cooling tower was built in 1986 Blast for peace: The cooling tower of the nuclear complex being demolished in Yongbyon on Friday. SINGAPORE: The cooling tower at the Yongbyon complex, suspected to be the nerve centre of North Korea's plutonium-based nuclear weapons programme, was on …

India, China to drive up uranium prices

The uranium industry's worst year is about to collide with a nuclear construction programme in India and China that rivals the ones undertaken during the oil crisis of the 1970s. The result is likely to be a 58 per cent rebound in uranium to $90 a pound from $57 now, …

Karat: imported nuclear power not central to energy security

Priscilla Jebaraj and Suresh Nambath India's energy security policy needs to go beyond the imported nuclear power that will be facilitated by the Indo-U.S. nuclear deal, Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Prakash Karat said on Sunday. Instead, the country's policy must focus on indigenous measures and energy accessed …

No compromise on nuclear programme: Musharraf

Pakistan's nuclear programme will continue unabated and it will not be compromised, according to President Pervez Musharaf. Speaking at a meeting with Director-General of the Strategic Planning Division Lt-Gen (retd) Khalid Ahmad Kidwai, who called on him at the Army House in Rawalpindi on Saturday, the president said there would …

Uranium issue on table with Oz: Pranab

Canberra: India has said it will raise the issue of uranium sale with Australia as external affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee arrived here on Sunday to carry forward the momentum in bilateral ties and ink two key treaties on extradition and mutual legal assistance in criminal matters. "We are going to …

World powers seek oil price cut; Opec refuses to blink

Jeddah : The world's energy powers embarked on a new level of dialogue to rein in runaway oil prices at an emergency meeting in this Red Sea city, but were unlikely to come up with a quick fix. While British prime minister Gordon Brown said there was a consensus that …

Across the divide

Sumantra Das What are the positions of Democrat presidential nominee Barack Obama and his Republican counterpart John McCain on the Indo-US nuclear deal, outsourcing, climate change and other issues that could affect India? As of now, here's where they stand. Indo-US nuclear deal / 123 agreement Obama: Promises to build …

Bardhan: Govt shouldnt be sacrificed for n-deal

BHUBANESWAR : Asking the UPA to focus on fighting inflation instead of the Indo-US nuclear deal, the CPI on Sunday said the Central Government should not be sacrificed in the name of such an agreement as nobody wanted early polls. "The priority at this moment is to fight the rising …

Life after death

IF YOU want to make an environmentalist squirm, mention nuclear power. Atomic energy was the green movement

Report: Hundreds of U.S. nuclear components lost

Hundreds of nuclear missile components in the U.S. arsenal cannot be located, the Financial Times reports, citing unpublicized details from a Pentagon report. One official put the number of missing parts at more than 1,000. The disclosure follows two nuclear blunders in the past year: the shipment of nuclear missile …

US: Will back N-deal till Jan 20

The Bush administration on Tuesday made light of the tortured debate in India over the N-deal, saying it will work till its last day in office

Atoms for peace

R. K. Pachauri Why is a progressive nuclear initiative bringing out the worst in Indian politics? Democracy in India has taken firm roots, and earlier misgivings about coalition governments at the Centre have proved largely unjustified, as recent experience has shown. However, in one respect, Indian democracy, with and without …

Power outages still haunting citizens

Citizens braved prolonged power load-shedding, coupled with frequent breakdowns, on Tuesday as the Karachi Electric Supply Corporation failed to meet the overall power demand despite the restoration of supply from a power generation unit of Bin Qasim Thermal Power Station. Sources in the power utility told Dawn that the Unit …

Make the IAEA agreement public

The Manmohan Singh government reckons it is make or break time for its civilian nuclear deal with the Bush administration. The bilateral nuclear cooperation agreement (the

Left ignores NSA plea to let govt approach IAEA

Russia has come out in support of the Indo-US nuclear deal. But it has said that a draft agreement with Moscow could not be signed in view of international laws that Russia recognized. Senior government sources said that the Russians were always aware that fresh projects not covered under past …

Pak in talks with China for more nuke plants

As the UPA government loses its nerve on the nuclear deal, it is becoming clear that Pakistan may be quietly powering ahead

For N-deal, a make or break moment

The meeting of the UPA-Left panel on the India-US nuclear deal on Wednesday could well be the final opportunity for the controversial pact to go through before both Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and US president George Bush reach the end of their tenures in office. The government is preparing for …

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