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 …
Sri Lanka and Pakistan signed six agreements including one on atomic energy Monday, the two countries’ leaders said, as the strategically important island looks to build its first nuclear plant. Details of the agreement were not immediately available but it comes after Sri Lanka signed a pact with India in …
Anti-nuclear activists on Thursday urged the governor of Shiga Prefecture to hold formal public hearings on the potential economic, social and environmental risks from two reactors in neighboring Fukui Prefecture that are moving toward restart. Representatives of the Citizens’ Commission on Nuclear Energy, a group of scholars, engineers, lawyers, and …
AMMAN – Jordan signed an agreement with Russia on Tuesday worth $10 billion that sets the legal basis for building the kingdom’s first nuclear power plant with a total capacity of 2,000 megawatts. Jordan imports nearly 98 percent of its energy from oil products and crude and is struggling to …
Maha CM warns protesters Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis is said to have warned the Shiv Sena leadership that the government would crack down on those holding protests against the Jaitapur plant. Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray has come out against the Jaitapur nuclear project, it is not clear whether …
A new German government report is stoking fears that the country’s energy companies can’t shoulder the cost of a government plan to close the country’s nuclear-power plants. Germany aims to phase out its nine remaining reactors by 2022, faster than almost any country. But nobody knows exactly how much it …
Asks NPCIL to comply with 10 conditions including application of safety measures suggested after Fukushima accident. India's nuclear power regulator the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) has given its clearance for the erection of major equipment at the two units of 700 MW each (7 & 8) of Rajasthan Atomic …
Hungary's 10 billion euro (7 billion pounds) plan to expand its Soviet-era Paks nuclear power plant in a deal with Russia has hit an objection in the European Commission that may oblige Budapest to revise the terms, EU sources said on Thursday. Confirming a report in Friday's Financial Times, one …
In its final report of this Parliament, the Energy and Climate Change Committee (ECCC) says the next Government must turn its focus to nuclear power and carbon capture and storage (CCS) and provide better support for the research and development of low-carbon technologies. The interactive report, titled 'Fueling the debate', …
Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka have shown interest in giving sites for Russian atomic power reactors after protests made it impossible to have these plants at the initially-allocated site of Haripur in West Bengal, government sources have said. The positive response from the two states has come as a respite for …
The gloom pervading the coal industry is set to deepen with the Chinese government outlining plans to further wind back the use of coal as it seeks to boost the use of non-fossil fuel energy and tackle the country's chronic air pollution. The new program comes as China's coal imports …
The UK and seven other countries last month called for a new package of nuclear aid funding and support, in a letter sent to the commission ahead of the EU’s energy union policy launch. The letter, seen by the Guardian, calls for new EU financing mechanisms for nuclear as a …
(Reuters) - Saudi Arabia and South Korea have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to cooperate on the development of nuclear energy, Saudi state news agency SPA said, building on a deal signed in 2011. South Korean President Park Geun-hye met with Saudi Arabia's King Salman on Tuesday in Riyadh …
A German energy cooperative will take legal action against the European Commission for approving state aid for a 16 billion pound ($25 billion) nuclear power plant in Britain, it said on Wednesday, arguing it threatens to distort competition. The project, to be built by French utility EDF at Hinkley Point …
The French government's energy bill was approved by the opposition-controlled upper house of parliament on Tuesday in a watered-down version that ditches key nuclear reduction targets and is likely to be changed again before its final adoption. The energy bill passed by the Socialist-controlled lower house last October included a …
The Cabinet approved a bill on Tuesday that will separate electricity generation from its transmission in April 2020, the third and final stage of a shake-up of Japan’s power industry in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis. The bill, which the government aims to enact during the current …
China approved construction of its first nuclear power project since the Fukushima disaster in Japan almost four years ago brought the program to a standstill. China’s State Council gave the go-ahead on Feb. 17 to begin building two new reactors at China General Nuclear Power Group’s Hongyanhe plant in the …
BERLIN — The European Union will fail to meet an ambitious goal of significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 unless it takes more aggressive measures to limit the use of fossil fuels and adopts new environmental policies, according to a report scheduled for release on Tuesday. Although European countries …
The Government on Thursday assured Parliament that no provision related to compensation under the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Act (CLND) was waived in the recent India-US agreement and said the provision of Rs1,500 crore is for immediate compensation only. Making this clear while fielding questions on the Civil Nuclear …
Orgenergostroy, a Russia-based company, has won the tender to conduct engineering survey, monitor the environment, and develop project documents for the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant site. The tender was floated by Atomenergoproekt, a sister concern of Russia’s state nuclear corporation – Rosatom – and an engineering company in December last …
“It will be possible to generate five lakh MW of power for 500 years with thorium-based reactors Calling spent fuel of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) ‘nuclear waste’ would be a misnomer as India was one among the three countries in the world that followed “closed cycle” process in nuclear …
