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 …
The Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd today told the Supreme Court that the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant has advanced safety features and it was designed to withstand earthquakes and other such threats. The NPCIL made the submissions before a bench headed by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra. The …
NGO says operation of units without proper storage space poses a risk The Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) should be directed to shut down the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KKNPP) units 1 and 2 for failing to set up an Away From Reactor (AFR) facility, the founder of …
India and the US are inching towards a solution to getting Westinghouse nuclear power reactors in India, on the lines of the deal struck with Russia for the Kudankulam projects. In India to launch a strategic energy partnership, US energy secretary Rick Perry told journalists, “Westinghouse is in the reactor …
An assessment of monthly data shows that in 2017, OECD net electricity production grew by 0.8% compared to 2016. There was a significant increase, 16.7%, in Geothermal, Solar, Wind and Other renewables generation and a marginal increase of Hydro by 0.5%. Combustible Fuels and Nuclear fell by 1% and 0.8%, …
Cost of projects across the country climbs to Rs 5.07 trillion from Rs 4.46 trillion, following implementaion delay of four to 78 months Thermal power projects under various stages of construction across the country are facing cost escalation of 13 per cent due to delays in implementation. The total capacity …
The government has ramped up coal supply to ramp up buffer stock at thermal power stations in anticipation of electricity demand shooting in line with the weatherman's prediction of an early and hot summer this year. Latest coal ministry data shows 16 power stations, or 14%, of the 112 coal-fired …
France’s EDF Group hopes that the terms of the deal to build a nuclear power plant in Jaitapur will be finalised by December 2018. EDF and Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd signed an Industrial Way Forward Agreement to develop the power plant during French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to …
Sudan will sign a“roadmap” with Russia to build nuclear power stations during a visit to Moscow by Khartoum’s electricity minister, state news agency SUNA said on Monday. SUNA said Water Resources, Irrigation, and Electricity Minister Moataz Mousa, who left Khartoum on Monday, would meet the head of Russia’s state nuclear …
Gujarat chief minister Vijay Rupani stated in Gujarat assembly on Thursday that Mithi Virdi nuclear power plant would never start. He said this during the debate over the nuclear power plant in question hour. The issue caught the heat when the members from both the sides exchanged fiery arguments at …
Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani today told the Assembly the proposal to set up a nuclear power plant in Bhavnagar district has been scrapped owing to a movement by panic-stricken locals following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan. The project was proposed to be set up at Mithivirdi village …
Asking Supreme Court to grant 5 more years to build ‘Away From Reactor’ facility for Kudankulam plants testifies to lack of technical knowhow’ The Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) has sought another five years’ time from the Supreme Court to set up an ‘Away From Reactor’ (AFR) facility …
The Indian official added that the two countries are yet to decide on several important aspects like terms of credit, which the EDF will give to the NPCIL, and the techno-commercial aspect, that includes cost per unit. India and France are likely to sign a framework agreement for expediting the …
Anil Kakodkar, a former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, today pitched for subsidising nuclear energy so that it competes with low-cost solar power. "Nuclear is also carbon-free, it is sustainable. I think nuclear should also be eligible for that kind of subsidy (enjoyed by solar and wind) as it …
BHOPAL: Up in arms against the Rs 17,000 crore Chutka nuclear power plant project, famers in Mandla district have stopped researchers from collecting soil samples for tests. Officials of a Mumbai-based private company had visited Mandla to collect samples, but farmers from three districts banded together in protest and stopped …
NUCLEAR is the future for the small coastal city of Haiyan. Not just as a source of power but, local officials think, as a magnet for businesses and tourists. Home to China’s first domestically developed commercial reactor, Haiyan recently started calling itself “nuclear-power town”. It has opened a nuclear museum …
Arusha — Uranium mining, set to commence soon in the country, will be taken on board in the proposed amendment of the Atomic Energy Act, it was revealed here yesterday. The amendments are through with the Tanzanian Atomic Energy Commission (Taec) and experts at the technical level. They have been …
ON A vast building site on the southern coast of South Korea near its industrial heartland, the foundations of the country’s newest nuclear-power project are swaddled in protective tarpaulins. Ten cranes tower overhead but nobody sits in their cabins. The only movement is the whirl of a few fans. Work …
The government is expected this week to begin a nationwide search for a community willing to host an underground nuclear waste dump to store highly radioactive material for thousands of years. Britain has been trying for years to secure a site with the right geology and local communities which would …
NEW DELHI: The New Year has brought a fresh ray of hope in India's nuclear energy sector, with Westinghouse, the bankrupt energy company being sold to a Canadian investment major, Brookfield Business Partners this week. Westinghouse is supposed to build six of its AP-1000 nuclear reactors in India, a project …
The first unit of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KKNP) was shut down in June 2015 for refuelling for the first time after generating about 6,875 million units of electricity, the government today said. The first unit of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KKNP) was shut down in June 2015 …
