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 …
According to thIS new publication, about 600 million people and 10 million small businesses in Africa have no reliable source of electricity, and increasingly, connection to a national grid is no guarantee of electricity supply. Blackouts are becoming more frequent, and in sub-Saharan Africa, the World Bank reports that almost …
Nuclear Power and Secure Energy Transitions: From Today’s Challenges to Tomorrow’s Clean Energy Systems is a new report by the International Energy Agency that looks at how nuclear energy could help address two major crises – energy and climate – facing the world today. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the …
This document is the first of a series of case studies integrating security analysis of instability and conflict involving nuclear-armed states with cutting-edge climate science. The outcome of a novel collaboration between the Converging Risks Lab of the Council on Strategic Risks and the Woodwell Climate Research Center, the case …
The amount of nuclear waste is growing worldwide. But even 70 years after the beginning of the nuclear age, no country in the world has found a real solution for the radiating legacy of nuclear power. The final disposal of nuclear waste poses major challenges to governments worldwide. No country …
To implement 5 million smart meter projects French power multinational EDF (Électricité de France) is upbeat on India across several areas including renewables, nuclear power, transmission and distribution systems, and smart grids. The company, which had bagged a mega project to deploy five million smart meters in Bihar and Andhra …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Radioactive Waste, 17/07/2019. The radioactive solid wastes generated during operation and maintenance of nuclear power plants are segregated and volume reduced prior to its disposal. Disposal of these waste is carried out in specially constructed engineered modules such as reinforced concrete trenches and tile …
President Jair Bolsonaro’s nuclear plan is leaving many of his fellow Brazilians distinctly unenthusiastic at the prospect not of pollution alone but also of perceptible risk. A few days ago a procession of men, women and children carrying banners and placards wound its way through the dry parched fields in …
Though the ‘highly harmful’ source is regarded as saviour on certain counts, the country has a better option under the seas If it is right that nothing can stop an idea whose time has come, it must be true the other way too — nothing can hold back an idea …
JALANDHAR: Dal Khalsa has strongly opposeed union government's proposal to set up atomic power plants in Punjab and has urged all the political parties of the state including the ruling party to reject this move in one voice. "The proposal to set up a nuclear power plant in a densely-populated …
The Central Electricity Authority (CEA) expects electricity generation from conventional power sources, which comprise 80% of the total production capacity, to rise 6.4% y-o-y to 1,330 billion units (BU) in FY20. Thermal, nuclear and hydro power plants generated 1,249 BU in FY19, recording an annual growth of 3.6%. If the …
Both BPI France and SFIL are French government-owned financial institutions. Loan is a major component of EDF and NPCIL negotiations. French major EDF, which has got the contract for building reactors for the Jaitapur nuclear power plant, has said India will have to provide a sovereign guarantee to two other …
South Korea plans to boost the share of its energy output generated from renewable sources to as much as 35 percent by 2040, a draft revision to government policy showed on Friday, over four times the current amount. Asia’s fourth-largest economy has been pushing to shed its heavy reliance on …
National Assembly Energy Committee David Gikaria (R) with member Elisha Odhiambo during their meeting with Safari link at Continental House, Nairobi. [Boniface Okendo/Standard] Participants at the meeting in Kisumu called to discuss the Energy Bill 2018, which seeks to establish the Nuclear Regulatory Authority, wondered why Kenya wanted to embrace …
ZAMBIA needs an investment of about US$8 billion to produce 1,200 megawatts of power. National Energy Programme Implementation Organisation (NAPIO) national coordinator Reuben Katebe said Government has partnered with a Russian institution, which will finance part of the project. Dr Katebe was speaking on Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation http://epaper.daily-mail.co.zm/
China will be able to build six to eight nuclear reactors a year if project approval processes return to normal as expected in the near future, the chairman of the state-owned China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) told Reuters on Monday. "That should be enough to meet our country's 2030 development …
Nairobi — President Uhuru Kenyatta has today signed three Bills thereby operationalizing them into law. The three Bills which were presented to the President at State House, Nairobi, are, The Urban Areas and Cities (Amendment) Bill 2017, The Petroleum Bill 2017 and the Energy Bill 2017. The new energy law …
Against stiff competitive bidding, Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has won two significant orders for Primary side heat exchangers from Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL). Cumulatively valued at around Rs.97 Crore, the orders envisage manufacture and supply of four moderator Heat Exchangers and 18 D2O Heat Exchangers for …
PARIS (Reuters) - The French government and utility EDF (EDF.PA) will study the possibility of converting the 1.2 gigawatts (GW) Cordemais coal power generators to burn biomass due to its importance in guaranteeing security of supply, the energy ministry said on Tuesday. President Emmanuel Macron’s government plans to phase out …
Jaipur: The second phase of aerial survey of existing nuclear mineral deposits in Alwar district has begun. It is being conducted by Atomic Minerals Directorate for Exploration and Research, Hyderabad. The survey is aimed at gathering information necessary geological mineral deposits for the nuclear power programme in the country and …
Limiting global warming to 1.5°C compared to 2°C reduces the severity of climate change impacts on our natural and human systems. As highlighted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Global Warming of 1.5°C special report, several hundred million people would be less exposed to climate-related risks to health, …
