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 …
vice-chancellor of Osmania Univer-sity, V Ramakistayya, underscored the need for bringing about awareness among the masses to dispel fears of tapping nuclear energy. Speaking recently at a seminar held at Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh (ap), he said that a nuclear-awareness drive was the need of the hour. He pointed out that …
The country is to go ahead with a much-delayed plan for a nuclear power plant, said officials of the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission ( baec ) in Dhaka. The plan has been in the pipeline for more than 35 years. Sheikh Hasina Wajed, the Bangladeshi prime minister, gave her approval …
donen , Japan's state-run nuclear agency, admitted that corrosion had caused leakage of radiation from about 2,000 underground drums storing radioactive waste from a fast-breeder nuclear reactor before February in Tokai, a village north of Tokyo. Government officials said that water was surrounding the dumping site was safe, even as …
Radioactivity from the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant in Cumbria, UK, has reached as far as the northern waters of Canada spreading through the Arctic Ocean. Data compiled by the Norwegian research ship CSS Henry Larsen showed that a plume of iodine-129 from the nuclear plant had penetrated beyond Siberia to …
A 50-MW multipurpose nuclear reactor near Khushab in Punjub has become operational in Pakistan. The reactor is capable of producing isotopes, silica for solar technology, convert saline water into drinking water, make electric cables fire-proof and irradiate food items. Government sources said that instaffing such reactors will boost agricultural production. …
MAYAK, a nuclear energy facility in the former Soviet Union that remained shrouded in secrecy for over 40 years now, has been identified as perhaps the most disastrous, according to a recent research report. Though not as well- known as the nuclear power plant at Chernobyl, the Mayak complex is …
Plans to convert the world's largest fast-breeder reactor Superphenix into a research centre and nuclear waste incinerator, may have to be shelved. Ruling on a lawsuit filed by several environmental groups, the Council of State, France's highest court, recently struck down a 1994 government order authorising operation of the nuclear …
This southeast Asian country is planning to move towards diversification of power sources. Indonesia plans to build the nation's first nuclear power plant in Java, the most heavily populated part of the country. This is notwithstanding the fact that three citizens' group in Jakarta had held a joint meeting last …
while the world is still debating the future of nuclear power, Sweden has decided to phase out its large nuclear power industry. The decision has sparked strong protests from citizens, opposition parties, trade unions and industries. The government intends to close down at least two of the country's 12 nuclear …
the recent announcement by Prime Minister (pm) H D Deve Gowda that full foreign ownership of nuclear energy plants will be allowed in India, is likely to see pro-nuke lobbyists working overtime to push the agenda through the ministry of science and technology and the planning commission. Although Gowda made …
Canada's nuclear expansion plans have run into rough weather. Two environmental groups, the Sierra Club of Canada and Energy Probe have decided to take the government to court if it continues its proposal to construct two huge nuclear reactors in China. The ecologists contend that the government has bypassed its …
RADIOACTIVE wastes from nuclear power plants pose an environmental hazard. Various options for the disposal of lethal leftovers from these plants have been considered. One such possibility is their
even as the need for nuclear power is being debated all over the world, India is planning to build a new series of nuclear power plants as part of a revived atomic energy programme. "In a bid to achieve rapid growth in the installed nuclear power capacity, a revised Nuclear …
India continued to play hard to get at the just concluded Conference on Disarmament (CD) in Geneva. Its stance that the comprehensive test ban treaty (CTBT) does not impress upon the nuclear powers to work firmly towards nuclear disarmament and at the same time seeks the rest of the world's …
As if the controversial Daya Bay nuclear plant was not enough, another nuclear power plant is coming up within 60 km of Hong Kong's coast amid concerns over marine contamination. For the construction of the twin reactor nuclear power plant in Lingao
In a bid to salvage its run-down nuclear industry, the government is planning to put up its nuclear plants for sale. A debate is raging on in the country about a bill which seeks to privatise two working power stations and one unfinished plant
The cat is out of the bag, finally. The suspicions that had lurked all these years about the safety standards of India's nuclear power plants, have been substantiated by the atomic energy regulatory board (AERB). All is not well with our nuclear installations according to A Gopalakrishnan, whose three-year tenure …
the world's first floating nuclear power plant, already under construction in Russia, will start operating by the year 2001. While Russian engineers are eagerly calculating its export potential, the project has sent alarming signals among environmentalists. They argue that the threat of ecological catastrophe from accidents caused by oil tankers …
exposing the double-talk of the five nuclear states, especially the us, requires little doing; the recently concluded Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (ctbt) in Geneva offered a remarkable instance. The five nuclear powers
