Nuclear Power

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding poor handling of the fly ash by Rajiv Gandhi Thermal Power Plant, Khedar, Hisar district, Haryana, 27/05/2025

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 …

Nuclear power must be expanded: Plan panel

Asserting that nuclear power will play a major role in meeting the energy needs of the country during the 12th Five-Year Plan, the Planning Commission on Thursday said the country needed an additional 1,00,000 MW of power during the 12th Plan period (2012-17) and therefore capacity expansion should be undertaken …

Haryana shortlists 2 sites for second nuclear power plant

Chandigarh Haryana government has shortlisted two locations for setting up its second nuclear power plant. The sites, Kitlana in Bhiwani and Balsamand in Hisar districts, were approved by the Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) in February this year and one of them will be finalised for setting up of …

Kudankulam in Catch-22 Situation Over Nuke Plant

As protestors in Ratnagiri are being lathi-charged for opposing the idea of a nuclear power plant at Jaitapur, down south in Kudankulam, the villagers are stoically eyeing an uneasy future. A few weeks from now, this Tamil Nadu village will witness the commissioning of perhaps the first nuclear plant in …

Japan may ban entry around crippled N-plant

Tokyo/Fukushima, Japan may for the first time designate as "off-limits" the 20-km evacuation zone around the tsunami damaged Fukushima nuclear plant, amid concerns over radiation risks to residents who have been returning temporarily to collect their belongings. Premier Naoto Kan, who is to visit Fukushima prefecture where the crippled plant …

Don't blame Ministry, says Jairam Ramesh

A day after one person was killed in police firing during a protest against the proposed nuclear plant in Jaitapur, Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said his Ministry could not be blamed for the incident. He accused the Shiv Sena of politicising the issue.

Curfew imposed in Ratnagiri

Post mortem after prolonged row; stone throwing during Shiv Sena bandh Curfew has been imposed in the city following violent protests and stone throwing outside the Ratnagiri civil hospital during a bandh called by the Shiv Sena on Tuesday. The death of Tabrez Sayekar of Nate in Monday's police firing …

Nuclear industrys trillion-dollar question

ParisIn the inbox of Petr Zavodsky, director of nuclear power plant construction at Czech power group CEZ are three sets of proposals from American, French and Russian consortiums, all angling for a $30-billion contract to build five new reactors. State-owned CEZ, central Europe

Govt: Don't stigmatise nuclear evacuees

The Japan Tokyo, April 19: The Japanese government on Tuesday urged local authorities, businesses and citizens not to discriminate against evacuees from the area around the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. The call came after some evacuation centres demanded radiation-free certificates from people who lived near the plant, and following reports …

Clearance can't be withdrawn

Rejecting the demand for withdrawal of the environmental clearance given to the Jaitapur power plant, environment minister Jairam Ramesh accused the Shiv Sena of politicising this issue and of whipping up public opinion against the setting up of the plant. Mr Ramesh stressed that

N-project triggers debate

Expressing con cern over the ongoing antinuclear power project agitation in Jaitapur, Maharashtra, the main Opposition BJP on Tuesday said the issue has definitely triggered a debate. However, the Congress suggested that there could be a conspiracy behind the agitation, cautioning people against

Robot in Japan reactors detects high radiation

Readings Monday from a robot that entered two crippled buildings at Japan

Situation tense in Jaitapur, says Patil

Maharashtra Home Minister R.R. Patil said on Monday that the situation was tense in Jaitapur after Minister of State for Environment Jairam Ramesh's statement that there was no going back on the proposed nuclear project. One person was killed in police firing and several were injured as the protest against …

Japan fears it may take 9 months to end nuclear crisis

Tokyo: Tokyo Electric Power Company said on Sunday that it hopes to bring the reactors at its hobbled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into a stable state known as cold shutdown within the next nine months, after which the three damaged reactor buildings at the facility will be covered. The …

Govt to assess capacity to handle nuke crisis

As part of the exercise undertaken by the government to ensure world class nuclear safety standards in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the four groups constituted by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will quantify to what level India can handle a major crisis beyond the design capacity of nuclear …

No Nukes? No Kidding!

Till we can produce sufficient solar and wind power, coal, gas and nuclear power will remain our mainstay When parts of Japan were devastated recently by an earthquake and subsequent tsunami, news of the human toll was quickly overshadowed by global fears of radioactive fallout from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear …

Uddhav Thackeray slams Jairam over 'u-turn' on Jaitapur nuclear project

Reacting to Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh's statement that there would be no rethink on Jaitapur nuclear power project, Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray today said it was a "mockery". Shiv Sena has sided with the local people in the coastal Ratnagiri district who are opposing the project. Thackeray …

SC begins hearing curative petition in Bhopal gas tragedy

A five-judge bench of the Supreme Court, headed by Chief Justice H S Kapadia began the hearing of curative petitions in the Bhopal gas tragedy on April 13. While hearing the curative petition filed by the CBI to re-examine the 1996 Supreme Court's judgement, the five-judge bench questioned the CBI …

What Fukushima tells us

Rather than question the safety of nuclear power, we should strive to strengthen it The accident at Japan

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