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 …
The ongoing protests against the Kudankulam nuclear power plant in Tamil Nadu will be called off on Thursday. The decision to call off the 11-day protest follows a meeting between representatives of the protesters, along with church officials, with chief minister J Jayalalithaa in Chennai. The 1,000 MW power plant …
Pakistan needs to build more nuclear power plants to provide energy relief that the country so desperately need and therefore requires international collaboration. It has already been tasked by the government to install 8800 MW of nuclear power by the year 2030. This was stated by Dr. Ansar Parvez, Chairman …
Siemens is exiting nuclear power in response to the German government's decision to quit the energy source, leading it to scrap a venture with Russia's Rosatom, its chief executive said. "The (nuclear) chapter is closed for us," Peter Loescher told German weekly magazine Der Spiegel in an interview published on …
The top nuclear negotiators from North and South Korea plan to meet next week in Beijing to discuss terms of restarting the long-stalled six-nation talks aimed at ending North Korea’s nuclear weapons program, a senior government official here said Friday. Wi Sung-lac, the South Korean envoy, and his North Korean …
Official Says Nuclear Standards Must Be Revised, Could Mean Years of Delays Guidelines for Japan's nuclear plants fail to account for worst-case earthquake and tsunami scenarios and need to be revised, said the head of a government committee drafting new seismic-safety standards, raising the prospect of further delays in the …
The world's nuclear power plant exporters announced Thursday a first-ever code of conduct, which they hope will raise safety standards, prevent proliferation, and enhance environmental protection. They agreed to six principles addressing everything from physical safety and security to ethics and compensation for damage in the event of an accident. …
Greenpeace has shifted its campaign focus toward confronting polluting companies, away from lobbying deadlocked U.N. climate talks, the global head of the environmental group told Reuters on the eve of its 40th anniversary. The group was exploring a new strategy to target banks which backed fossil fuel companies and nuclear …
But officials play it down, saying the incident is not so disastrous as the one at Fukushima The explosion at a nuclear reprocessing plant in southern France on Monday, which killed one person and injured three, has come at an inopportune time for India. For, it is about to begin …
The Bombay high court on Tuesday quashed a Ratnagiri district magistrate order prohibiting the association, Indian People’s Tribunal, to hold an indoor private meeting to hear the grievances of people protesting against the proposed Jaitapur nuclear power project. A division bench of Chief Justice Mohit Shah and justice Roshan Dalvi …
Japan's efforts to safely dismantle the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex is expected to be fraught with technical challenges and take more than a decade to complete, the government's Atomic Energy Commission said Wednesday. Removing the fuel from the spent-fuel pools and the reactors is vital to ensuring there will …
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda put the issue of phasing-out the country's reliance on nuclear energy on the back-burner Tuesday, saying his new administration's priorities are post-disaster reconstruction and economic recovery. "In the mid- to long-term, we must aim to minimize our dependency on nuclear energy," Mr. Noda said in …
Over 4,000 people today observed a fast to intensify their protest against the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project in the district. The villagers observed the fast at a village, which is 5 km from the site. Anti-nuclear plant activists also planned to organise fast at Koodankulam tomorrow, an activist said. The …
The outlook for renewable energy may be cloudy as governments scramble for solutions to a faltering global economy and financial markets suffer from uncertainty, but it is not bleak, analysts said in two separate reports on Friday. Renewable energy sectors have lagged fossil fuel energy and wider global stocks over …
Moscow's energy minister Sergei Shmatko on Sunday promised further nuclear co-operation with Iran, after Russia built the Islamic republic's first atomic power plant despite US objections. "I say with certainty that in the future, we will have more co-operation in the Bushehr power plant, and also in the development of …
With an eye on increasing public confidence in nuclear energy, the government on Wednesday introduced a Bill to set up an independent nuclear regulator in the Lok Sabha. The Nuclear Safety Regulatory Authority Bill, 2011, will establish a legal framework to regulate nuclear and radiation safety and establish an authority …
A Bill aimed at establishing a legal framework to address nuclear safety issues and set up an autonomous atomic energy watchdog was introduced in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday. The Nuclear Safety Regulatory Authority Bill, 2011, introduced by the Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office, Mr V Narayanasamy, …
After weathering the East Coast’s recent quake, the North Anna nuclear plant finds itself in a situation that no American reactor has ever faced before. The shock was bigger than anything its designers thought it would ever experience —big enough to make 17-ton canisters of spent fuel skitter a few …
A farmer sitting on a hunger strike along with other peasants to protest acquisition of land for the proposed nuclear power plant in Fatehabad district of Haryana died on Tuesday at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (PGIMS), Rohtak. Ishwar Singh Siwach, a 60-year-old farmer from Gorakhpur village farmer, …
A Bill to establish a legal framework to comprehensively address nuclear safety issues and establish an autonomous atomic energy watchdog to regulate the sector was introduced in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday. The Nuclear Safety Regulatory Authority Bill, 2011, introduced by Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office Mr …
People residing in Koodankulam, Idinthakarai and nearby villages plan to go on hunger strike on September 11, at Idinthakarai in Tirunelveli district. They are demanding closing down of the Koodankulam nuclear power plants, a release by the People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy said here on Wednesday. The decision to intensify …
