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 …
In the nuclear industry, memories can be distressingly short. In 1976, the UK Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution declared that it would be "morally wrong" to make a major commitment to nuclear power without demonstrating a way of safely isolating radioactive waste. Yet the UK is about to embark on …
This article reviews highlights of low energy nuclear reaction research, part of the field of condensed matter nuclear science. The field evolved from the so-called cold fusion discovery of two electrochemists, Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons at the University of Utah. Since the announcement of their discovery in 1989, more …
THE villagers at Xinwuli, Hunan, direct us through a 1000-year-old maze of cobblestone paths to the family home of one of their minor celebrities, Li Zi'an. Li's mother, a dignified woman named Chen, shuffles out on her spindly legs to greet us. "I don't know what my son is doing, …
The Bush Administration has for the first time dropped public hints that its hopes of seeing the US-India civil nuclear deal may be ebbing, suggesting that the next administration and Congress could take up the landmark pact if it fails to meet the deadline now. Putting out a mixed message …
Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. (BHEL) on Thursday announced a 16.6 per cent rise in the net profit at Rs. 2,815 crore in 2007-08. The company also announced plans to make a foray into the manufacture of higher rating nuclear turbines and generators and was entering into a joint venture with …
A limited strategic partnership with the US is beneficial for India, the UPA, and the Left. An exciting move if ever there was one: the Tata group's acquisition of Jaguar and Ford. Unthinkable some years ago. Yet it is credible now, especially after Tata Steel's acquisition of Corus.* Real potential …
The Ratan Tata-led three-member Investment Commission strongly supports the proposed civil nuclear agreement with the US as being critical for ensuring a large share of nuclear power in India's energy mix. The government can't ignore the commission' suggestions to ensure the country's energy security, say Subhash Narayan & Rajeev Jayaswal …
PARIS: As concern over global warming grows, the nuclear industry is stepping up efforts to portray itself as a viable source of clean energy. Governments are increasingly receptive, including the British government, which last year backed the construction of a new generation of nuclear power plants. Antinuclear environmentalists say that …
Giant Particle Accelerator Could Create Black Hole That Might Eat Up Earth: Lawsuit More fighting in Iraq. Somalia in chaos. People in this country can't afford their mortgages and in some places now they can't even afford rice. None of this nor the rest of the grimness on the front …
Given the uranium crunch, the Indo-US nuclear deal is crucial to India's ambitious programme. The opposition stems from a mental block, writes M.R. Srinivasan, former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission India is facing a severe uranium crunch
"It's the sun, stupid,' is probably how James Carville would summarize the message of Daniel G. Nocera, a chemist and professor of energy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, when he addressed a meeting on environmental issues that began in Aspen Wednesday night. The event is the first Aspen Environmental …
Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh has once again reiterated the commitment of the government towards generating energy for needs of the country. The govt is committed to further development of energy both as an environment friendly source of power and as a means of widening the energy basket available. There …
PRIME Minister Manmohan Singh was perhaps targeting the in-house critics of the Indo-US nuclear deal when he said that the government is "committed' to developing civilian nuclear energy at a function for a power project in the Capital His remarks are also perfectly timed with the visit of external affairs …
On Monday, Delhi took an important step towards achieving self sufficiency in power generation in time for the Commonwealth Games as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh laid the foundation stone for the 1,500-MW power plant
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh being presented a plant by Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit after he laid the foundation stone for the Gas Power Project at Bawana in New Delhi on Monday. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday said his government was committed to further development of nuclear power both …
A slew of India's premier scientific bodies have been slammed by the CAG for their inability to meet deadlines and for wasteful expenditure. Topping the list was the Department of Atomic Energy in which the Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology was to complete a synchrotron radiation source, Indus 2, …
Extending the support of the environmentalists to the Indo-US civil nuclear deal, which is in a limbo because of opposition from the Left parties, Nobel Laureate RK Pachauri today said not going ahead with the deal would be a mistake. Pachauri, whose UN Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change received the …
India's zeal for reactor imports needs to be tempered by the fact that more than half a century after U.S. Atomic Energy Agency Chairman Lewis Strauss claimed that nuclear energy would become "too cheap to meter,' the nuclear-power industry everywhere subsists on generous state support and shows the slowest rate …
A controversial nuclear club is taking shape. The UK has signed up to the Bush administration's Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) just a few months after it was rubbished as unworkable by the US National Academy of Sciences. The UK joins several other recent recruits, including Canada, Senegal and South …
