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 …
Indian companies tried to export nuclear grade material to Syria and Iran in violation of international conventions and desisted only after the matter was raised by the US, WikiLeaks has revealed. The secret US diplomatic correspondence says that a public sector unit was also trying to export high grade conventional …
Sun-baked and debt-choked Greece presented on Monday a plan to become Europe's solar energy powerhouse, attracting up to 20 billion euros of investment in the decades to come to lift its economy out of the doldrums. The cash-strapped country regards clean energy as one of the few advantages of its …
Iran on Monday made its first counterproposal in two years to ease the confrontation with the West over its nuclear program, offering to allow international inspectors “full supervision” of the country’s nuclear activities for the next five years, but on the condition that the mounting sanctions against Iran are lifted. …
The purpose of this action plan is to define a programme of work to strengthen the global nuclear safety framework. The plan consists of actions building on the Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Safety convened in June 2011, the conclusions and recommendations of the Working Sessions, and the experience and knowledge …
During the first half of 2011, Germany for the first time generated more than 20 percent of its electricity from renewable sources, a new report says. While the country’s total electricity demand remained stable during the first six months of 2011, the share generated by renewable sources increased from 18.3 …
Japan’s new prime minister, Yoshihiko Noda, promised on Friday to keep Japan on its path of phasing out nuclear power, saying it was “unrealistic” to build any new reactors in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear crisis or to extend those at the end of their life spans. In his …
The United Nations' nuclear agency says it is "increasingly concerned" that Iran has conducted experimental work to develop nuclear weapons, in particular on warheads to deliver nuclear payloads. In a report issued Friday, the International Atomic Energy Agency also said Iran has begun deploying so-called second-generation centrifuges at its largest …
The UN nuclear agency said Wednesday it is “increasingly concerned’’ about a stream of intelligence information suggesting that Iran continues to work secretly on developing a nuclear payload for a missile and other components of a nuclear weapons program. In its report, the International Atomic Energy Agency said “many member …
Campaigners to join hands, rally at N-plant sites Even before the nuclear industry gets its act together to build new plants, activists opposing India’s atomic energy programme have joined hands for co-ordinated protests at various sites where nuclear projects are planned. An organised agitation is expected to mount pressure on …
Japan's new prime minister has made clear he sees nuclear power playing a part in energy supply for decades -- so one of his first challenges is to convince a skeptical public to allow shut reactors to restart. Yoshihiko Noda inherits a country with no cohesive energy policy after the …
Nuclear regulators said Thursday they want the operators of all 104 U.S. commercial reactors to conduct new assessments of their facilities' vulnerability to earthquake damage. The decision was motivated by the increased awareness that seismic risks may have been underestimated by nuclear-power industry and regulators in the past, especially for …
Some 800m below the town of Gorleben, northern Germany, salt glistens like ice underfoot. The man in charge of the nation’s nuclear waste is walking through caverns carved into a huge salt formation that could one day entomb 17,000 tonnes of highly radioactive detritus. “Walk carefully, salt is slippery,” says …
Iran is moving its most critical nuclear fuel production to a heavily defended underground military facility outside the holy city of Qum, where it is less vulnerable to attack from the air and, the Iranians hope, the kind of cyberattack that crippled its nuclear program, according to intelligence officials. The …
The government has decided to empower the Nuclear Safety Regulatory Authority (NSRA) — which is being formed to regulate safety from nuclear radiation — with wide-ranging powers to conduct investigations, inspect, search and seize documents and objects from the sources of such radiation. The NSRA Bill 2011 — a copy …
Japan's nuclear crisis will make the nuclear-power industry safer and stronger, rather than knock it off course, Australian uranium miner Paladin Energy said on Wednesday. Paladin, which has two uranium mines in Africa, said the industry's outlook remained strong despite the shorter term impact of the disaster at the Fukushima …
The Ministry of Environment and Forests constituted a committee under the Chairmanship of Shri J.M. Mauskar, Special Secretary to Government of India vide Office Order No.J-11013/30/2009-IA.II (I) (Pt.) dated 14th December, 2009 to examine the issues relating to monitoring of projects. The mandate of the committee was as follows: To …
New Delhi: The Cabinet on Tuesday approved the setting up of a new independent nuclear safety regulatory authority which will report to the Parliament and will be headed by a professional with extensive experience in atomic energy. The Cabinet approved the Nuclear Safety and Regulatory Authority Bill that has been …
Countries with atomic power plants would be encouraged to host international safety review missions, under a draft U.N. action plan that may disappoint those who had hoped for strong measures to prevent a repeat of Japan's nuclear crisis. Seeking the middle ground between states advocating more binding global rules and …
Iran will no longer negotiate a nuclear fuel swap with some of the world powers, its atomic chief said on Monday, adding however that Tehran was ready for closer co-operation with the UN nuclear watchdog. "We will no longer negotiate a fuel swap and a halt to our production of …
Not since the grim period after World War II has Germany had significant blackouts, but it is now bracing for that possibility after shutting down half its nuclear reactors practically overnight. Nuclear plants have long generated nearly a quarter of Germany’s electricity. But after the tsunami and earthquake that sent …
