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 …
"it's a cruel joke', was the reaction of the noted Gandhian and anti-nuclear activist, Sangamitra Gadekar, when she heard that the Rajasthan Atomic Power Plant ( raps ) at Rawatbhata was awarded this year's Golden Peacock Environment Management Award. Gadekar had conducted a study in 1991 on the impact of …
What is the basis of the serious questions raised by you about the safety of nuclear reactors, especially the Russian-made ones to be set up in Tamil Nadu? In 1995, when I started gathering all the status reports, I found recommendations made in 1979, 1987 and 1995 were not being …
The 20th anniversary of the Three Mile Island accident, the worst commercial nuclear mishap in us history, was marked by a candle protest and anti-nuclear speeches. More than 100 protesters spoke out against atomic power and recalled the horror, that had gripped the nation for days and led to the …
The Sendai High Court in Japan dismissed an appeal filed by residents Onagawa Miyagi Province which demand a halt to the construction of a nuclear reactor and operations of an existing one by Tohoku Electric Power Company. Judge Toshimi Muto upheld a 1994 district court ruling that acknowledged the nuclear …
Ukraine has said that it would keep its promise to shut down the troubled Chernobyl nuclear power plant by the year 2000, but only if it received enough financial assistance from the West. "Till date, Ukraine's position is unchanged. Ukraine is ready to fulfil its obligation to close the Chernobyl …
The science, technology and environment ministry of Thailand has suspended a nuclear research reactor project at Ongkharak district. Deputy minister Pornthep Techapaiboon said the lack of required safety analysis from an accredited institution, risk assessment analysis and safety measures had prompted him to issue the suspension order. Speaking to a …
britain and France are engaged in a battle with Germany over the latter's decision to phase out nuclear power. The two countries want Germany to come out with a compensation package for foreign waste processing companies. Jurgen Trittin, Germany's environment minister, has said that there was "no legal basis for …
the United States seeks to punish those with whom it does not agree. Perhaps, this is democracy, North American style. The idea of sanctions is thus ingrained in its diplomatic discourse, though experience shows it mostly does not pay off. When India chose to declare last May that it could …
SPAINISH environment minister Isabel Tocino has said that increasing nuclear power output might become a part of Spain's climate change policy. In a paper presented to parliament, the minister said that upgrading nuclear resources was one way Spain could meet its Kyoto Protocol commitments. Spain is the first European Union …
one of the reactions to the nuclear explo-sions at Pokhran has been the imposition of sanctions by the United States on various Indian institutions. These include all research institutes funded by the Depart-ment of Atomic Energy like the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research ( tifr ) in Mumbai and the …
THE Indian industry and scientific community have strongly condemned the US decision to blacklist 40 Indian companies and laboratories along with their 200 subsidiaries. On November 13, the US slapped sanctions on more than 300 Indian and Pakistani government agencies, government-affiliated firms, laboratories and private companies in response to the …
RUSSIAN and Kazakh experts explained why they did not like the recent nuclear tests in India and Pakistan at an anti-nuclear conference. "We are still suffering from the radiation effects of nuclear tests carried out by Russia and China," said Tatiana Leschenko, an eye specialist and president of the Union …
Sunflowers and spinach could be used to clean up spillage of radioactivity from around nuclear plants if an experiment by the British nuclear industry proves successful. British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL) is growing dwarf sunflowers, spinach, sugar beet and Indian mustard on an 80-metre-stretch of land contaminated by leaks from the …
IN WHAT is seen as a punitive action against scientists for India's achievement in the nuclear field, the Clinton administration has asked seven Indian scientists working in the US to leave the country. According to a leaked memorandum by US energy secretary Federico Pena, 75 other Indian scientists working in …
india's potential nuclear arsenal is bigger than Britain's and is in the same league as the French and the Chinese, according to a report of the Jane's Intelligence Review . It's nuclear weapons programme is based on weapons-grade plutonium reprocessed from fuel from the Cirus and Dhruva research reactors in …
in the wake of the nuclear tests conducted by India and Pakistan, the recently-formed Convention Against Nuclear Weapons has called on the two nations to jointly initiate a global convention for the elimination of nuclear weapons. The convention criticised the Bharatiya Janata Party ( bjp )-led government for its weaponisation …
the testing of five nuclear devices on May 11 and May 13, 1998 - including a thermonuclear-boosted fusion bomb, a lighter but more powerful fission bomb of the type tested in May 1974, a low-yield nuclear device and two sub-critical tests - thrilled scientists and people alike. Heads of state …
the series of nuclear tests conducted by India in the last fortnight have proved one point. That given a strong political commitment, India has the ability to prove its prowess and stand up to the rest of the world. The Indian scientific establishment today feels confident that it does not …
france may soon shut down the country's controversial fast-breeder Superphoenix reactor. At present, France is the world's largest generator of nuclear power. The closure would be a victory for the green movement in the country. The move to close the plant has come 20 years ahead of schedule. At the …
