Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Akhilesh Kumar Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 23/05/2025. The matter related to illegal mining activites carried out by Jai Maa Chandrika Enterprises, Rajendra Nagar, village Kabari, district Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh. The applicant also alleged about illegal sale …
Japan’s nuclear regulator is “very close” to finishing its review of two reactors in southern Japan that are slated to be the first to restart under new rules introduced since the Fukushima nuclear disaster, one of its commissioners told Reuters. Restarting the first reactors will end the country’s longest period …
COAL kills, especially in China. Up to half a million people die prematurely each year as a result of the country’s infamously foul air. Coal, from which China gets roughly four-fifths of its electricity, is the main contributor to that deadly pollution. And since the country’s power-generation may need to …
Japan's atomic regulator on Thursday cleared a second set of reactors for restart, another step towards returning the country to nuclear power after the Fukushima disaster of 2011 led to the shutdown of all units. Two reactors at the Takahama nuclear station operated by Kansai Electric Power, Japan's most nuclear-reliant …
Japan has begun deliberating its 2030 targets for power generation, a process likely to turn contentious when nuclear restarts are considered even as the much delayed cleanup at Fukushima continues four years after the meltdowns there. A ratio of between 15 to 20% for nuclear power was floated as a …
Nuclear power is a critical element in limiting greenhouse gas emissions, and a new Technology Roadmap co-authored by the IEA and the Nuclear Energy Agency outlines the next steps for growth in the aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi accident in Japan and the economic crisis and its effect on financing. …
An Act to provide for the establishment of the Sri Lanka Atomic Energy Board; for the promotion and encouragement of the use of nuclear science and technology for national development purposes; for the establishment of the sri lanka atomic energy regulatory council; for the regulation of practices involving ionizing radiation …
In a bid to clear the decks for the supply of imported fuel for its nuclear power plants, India is set to complete the process of placing its civilian reactors under International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards in the next few days. Government sources said that last lot of the two …
South Korea hopes to win sufficient community support to open a long-delayed storage facility for low and medium level radioactive waste early next year, the head of the country's nuclear safety body said on Tuesday. The facility in the southeastern city of Gyeongju to store contaminated clothing and tools has …
Board chief for more interactions with public to allay fears The Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) has set December 2015 as the deadline for implementing long-term additional safety measures in nuclear installations, said its Chairman S.S. Bajaj. Talking to reporters after inaugurating the 31st Safety and Occupational Health Professionals Meet …
Kakodkar says he warned the UPA govt about the negative implications of the nuclear liability law but was overruled Former Atomic Energy Commission chief Anil Kakodkar, one of the key negotiators for the Indo-US nuclear deal that has failed to translate into a single dollar of investment or generation of …
As Japan pitches an unpopular nuclear restart to residents near Kyushu Electric Power Co's Sendai plant, local politicians say approval is unlikely until December, delaying an already fraught process to revive the country's idled reactors. More than three years after the nuclear meltdowns at Fukushima, the worst disaster since Chernobyl, …
As part of a plan to restart its nuclear industry, the government last Thursday began a controversial consultation process with local residents near idled reactors that was criticized for failing to give everyone in the region a say. More than a year after Japan’s last reactor was shut down in …
Voters in a South Korean city have rejected plans to build a nuclear power plant in a referendum the government says has no legal effect. Thursday's vote in Samcheok, on South Korea's east coast, went as expected following this year's election of a mayor who wants the government to scrap …
With both the INLD and the HJC promising to abandon or shift the controversial Gorakhpur nuclear plant if voted to power, detractors of the project are now looking for a commitment on the issue. Residents of villages around the proposed site will meet Union Minister Sushma Swaraj, who is coming …
Sweden’s Green Party has joined the government for the first time in its 33-year history and now wants to use that power to shutter the country’s aging nuclear reactors in the face of opposition from a majority of lawmakers. By imposing stricter safety rules, higher taxes and by terminating state-owned …
LONDON – Three years after Japan closed all of its nuclear plants in the wake of the Fukushima meltdown and Germany decided to shut its industry, developing countries are leading the biggest construction boom in more than two decades. Almost two-thirds of the 70 reactors currently under construction worldwide, the …
Some 16,000 people rallied Tuesday in Tokyo against the government’s plan to restart nuclear reactors, more than three years after the Fukushima disaster, Jiji Press said. It was one of the largest anti-nuclear demonstrations since the nuclear watchdog on September 10 approved plans to restart two reactors at the Sendai …
Japan is facing the toughest test yet in its effort to restore nuclear energy more than three years after the Fukushima disaster: scrutiny from a skeptical population. The Nuclear Regulation Authority vouched last month for the safety of two reactors in Sendai, the first to pass inspections. Still, with Japan …
Two Belgian nuclear reactors owned by GDF-Suez unit Electrabel may remain offline until spring and may need to be halted permanently, Belgian state broadcaster VRT reported on Tuesday. The Belgian nuclear regulator ordered production to be stopped at the 1,008 megawatt Tihange 2 reactor and the 1,006 megawatt Doel 3 …
Europe's ageing nuclear fleet will undergo more prolonged outages over the next few years, reducing the reliability of power supply and costing plant operators many millions of dollars. Nuclear power provides about a third of the European Union's electricity generation, but the 28-nation bloc's 131 reactors are well past their …
