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 …
AFTER seven years of protracted negotiations Ukraine has signed an agreement in Ottawa with the G-7 countries (Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the US and Canada) and the European Commission on the closure of the Chernobyl nuclear power station. The agreement was signed in Ottawa by the Ukrainian economics minister …
A prototype fast-breeder nuclear reactor in Japan had to be shut down due to sodium leakage last December. This accident has recently raised fundamental questions about Japan's nuclear power policy, as the government-run Atomic Energy Commission has begun reviewing the country's fast-breeder development plan. The fast-breeder reactor 'Monju', named after …
THE future of nuclear pow~r worldwide appearS to be hanging in balance. Its prospects looked rosy 20 years ago when steep rise in oil prices compelled the Western nations to face the dreadful possibility of a serious and lasting energy shortage. Yet at that time, nuclear energy was not being …
THE country's nuclear ambitions have turned to ashes. Faced with a severe cash crunch, the Nuclear Power Corporation is unable to carry on the construction of new atomic power plants. A parliamentary committee reviewing the country's nuclear energy programme, has pulled up the government for ignoring atomic power. Reportedly, India …
TO MEET the rising demands of electricity, the Chinese government plans to augment its nuclear facilities by constructing 12 more nuclear plants apart from the present two. Nuclear power is projected to rise from the current one per cent usage to six per cent in AD 2020. Being cash-strapped, however, …
INDIA's nuclear power dream on the proposed Kudangularn project is floating again in the corridors of the Nuclear Power Corporation, as was recently disclosed by R Chidambaram, chairperson, Atomic Energy Commission, in the founder's day address at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Bombay, that negotiations with the Russian government to …
A NUCLEAR reactor in your vicinity could be the best way to contract breast cancer, as the latest Greenpeace report reveals. The report titled, "Nuclear Power, Human Health and the Environment: The Breast Cancer Warning in the Great Lakes Basin", endorsed by 13 us cancer experts, indicates that toxic chemicals …
Fifty years after Hiroshima, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is now hearing arguments on whether there can be a circumstance in which any country can legitimately be allowed to use a nuclear weapon against another. The arguments have been polarised between the nuclear haves and have-nots. And as with …
Crash H - bomb The French government's move to carry out nuclear tests in spite of protests from many countries and environmentalists lends a great amount of curiosity to Richard Rhode's book, Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb. In this riveting book, he tells the H-bomb. He reveals …
WITH energy in perpetual short supply, the Armenian government has decided to restart the Metsamor nuclear reactor which was closed down in 1988 following a devastating earthquake. Reviving the 407 MW reactor is a desperate measure for the state which is facing ruin due to the seven-year-old undeclared war with …
France is in a frenzy to be friends again with the rest of the world. Especially with the countries in the South Pacific, which have been smouldering with indignation ever since the Chirac government decided to resume underground nuclear tests in French Polynesia. It has joined hands with Britain and …
EXACTLY after a decade, the Nobel Peace Prize has found a recepienty campaigning directly against atomic weapons. In1985,it had been awarded to the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. The crusade of this year's awardees, Joseph Rotblat and the Conference on Science and World Affairs - drily called …
THE detection of accidental radiation leaks from nuclear power plants may just become easier, thanks to orchids. Researchers from Mangalore University (Karnataka) have zeroed in on an epiphytic orchid called Cyrnbidium aloifo which can be used for monitoring radiation levels in the vicinity of atomic power plants. The orchid was …
AUSTRALIAN premier Paul Keating called it .an act of stupidity," and the rest of the world exploded in anger - but Paris remained undeterred. In the wee hours of Septembei 6, the French did what they had resolved to do 3 months ago: they set off the first of the …
POWER generation using fusion reactors has long been seen as the panacea for humankind's unquenchable thirst for energy. If feasible, fusion will not only be economical but also one of the cleanest sources of power. There is only one snag: we are still many years from building an operational fusion …
JAPAN has gone ahead and done what-it has been planning to do for 'more than a year now. On August 29, its first proto- type fast-breeder reactor - Monju - started generating power. Monju is the key reactor of the nation's nuclear recycling programme, informs the semi -governmental Power Reactor …
THE Association of South East Asko Nations (ASEAN) has finally succeeded IN forcing the us to see reason. After resisting it for a decade, the us government has agreed to sign a treaty which will establish southeast Asia as a nuclear-free zone; it will be marked as a region in …
IF THE French go ahead with their plans to ensure nuclear tests, the Japanese will have nothing to do with them. Forty eight legislators have joined forces with Citizens for Peace - a non- parliamentary group - to issue a joint statement urging the government to recall Japan's ambassador to …
FRANCE's nuclear testing shenanigans the Mururoa atoll have caused an international furore (see Down to Earth, 31, 1995). Among the most hostile ics of the French moves on the atol the international environmental gram Greenpeace. The group claims that 45 founder David McTaggart and 2 grove members had infiltrated the …
In the Ist week of July, Armenians cheered as their government reopened a controversial nuclear power station 20 miles west of the earthquake-prone capital Yerevan. Officials are optimistic that the reactor, located at Medzamor, will be working at its optimum capacity by September, meeting 30 per cent of Armenia's energy …
