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 …
PM in Astana, will meet President Nursultan Nazarbayev today The Central Asian Republic of Kazakhstan is keen to buy small nuclear reactors from India and the two countries propose to carry out a feasibility study in this regard soon. With Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arriving here this evening on a …
India is putting in place an elaborate plan for legal and institutional reform to ensure its civilian nuclear programme meets all international safety standards. The objective is to make Indian nuclear reactors more resistant to disasters, said sources accompanying the Prime Minister. A new law is on the cards that …
Designing and running nuclear power requires an entirely different mode of planning and assessment than possible with conventional risk analysis. There is little indication that the existing organisational culture of the Department of Atomic Energy permits such “over-the-horizon” creative thinking as is required.
India's nuclear plants may soon get some additional safety features, including more provisions to add water to the reactors to deal with over heating of the core, a condition that led to the Fukushima nuclear accident. The measures are part of six recommendations made by four separate task forces set …
THE slow-moving disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan that is spreading a cloud of anxiety across the world has forced most nations to either suspend or review their nuclear power programmes—but not India. In the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami that struck the huge Daiichi power complex …
Two major events happening at two ends of the world—Japan’s natural disaster and nuclear fallout and unrest in Libya and other countries of the region—have one thing in common. Energy. The fallout from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, hit by earthquake and then the tsunami, has not yet been contained. …
Manmohan, Medvedev express satisfaction at the development in the relationship India and Russia will review safety issues with regard to their ongoing nuclear cooperation programme in the light of the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident in Japan. If necessary, additional features would be incorporated in the two Russian-origin nuclear plants …
Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan is worried that the state might lose the Jaitapur power project to other states if protests from various quarters against it continue. An official from the chief minister
Even as the Fukushima-Daiichi disaster is still unfolding, Indian and Chinese administrations and utilities have confirmed their will to continue with their nuclear new build programmes relying on most advanced standards. Similar commitment is being shown by the US, Canada and Brazil. However, Italy and Switzerland have decided to reflect …
Environment enthusiasts in the Capital today took out a candlelight vigil to mark the one-month anniversary of nuclear catastrophe in Japan. People gathered at the India Gate and held candles and placards to express their solidarity with the people of Japan and voiced their opposition to nuclear energy. Vigils were …
Even as Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) generated a record 40.8 per cent more electricity in 2010-11, the State-owned body said that the government is looking at creating a joint venture which will consider holding stakes in uranium mines in foreign countries in a bid to get assured and …
Japan Shifts N-Plant Staff, Lifts Alert After 90 Mins Tokyo: Japan was rattled by a magnitude-7.4 aftershock and tsunami warning on Thursday night nearly a month after a devastating earthquake and tsunami flattened the northeastern coast. Announcers on Japan
Expressing deep concern over the tsunami-triggered nuclear crisis in Japan, an ad-hoc group of nuclear safety experts from all over the world, that includes India
As the world debates the future of nuclear power plants in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster in Japan, experts have called for inclusion of binding safety standards in the international nuclear regime. A group of 15 nuclear experts, including Anil Kakodkar, former chairman of India
