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The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to restrain the Centre from loading fuel into the nuclear power plant at Koodankulam after the government said it was a “very initial stage” and that it will take “at least” two more months to commission the plant after the loading process is complete. …
On a day the movement against the Koodankulam nuclear power plant suffered a setback with the Supreme Court refusing to stay uranium loading, thousands of villagers took to the sea and stood inside the water off the coast of Idinthakarai village on Thursday, even as a strong posse of police …
The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to stay loading of fuel for the nuclear power plant at Kudankulam but agreed to examine the risk associated to the project, saying safety of people living in its vicinity is of prime concern. “Public safety is of prime importance. There are poor people …
PMANE convenor Udayakumar not to surrender. KOODANKULAM (TN), 12 SEPT: As tension simmered, security forces today sealed almost the entire town housing the atomic power plant with anti-nuclear movement leader Mr S P Udayakumar remaining elusive after a somersault on his surrender offer. Koodankulam, the hotbed of the over year-long …
Over 100 survivors of the Union Carbide disaster on Wednesday kept a candlelight vigil to express solidarity with those opposing the Kudankulam nuclear power project. Five organisations of the survivors of the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal condemned the brutalities unleashed by Tamil Nadu police and Rapid Action Force on …
Some suggestions were for a short term and would be completed in six months, while some were long-term The Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) said the safety measures it had recommended to enhance safety at the Kudankulam nuclear plant would be implemented through the next two years. Last year, following …
‘It Got Nod Without Safety Measures’ New Delhi: An appeal has been filed in the Supreme Court challenging a Madras high court order dismissing a writ petition seeking implementation of critical safety measures before commissioning the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP). The appeal filed by a Chennai resident, G Sundarrajan, …
The row over setting up the Kudankulam nuclear power plant in Tamil Nadu reached the Supreme Court on Tuesday with a petition, which sought its directions to restrain the Union government and other authorities from commissioning the controversial project. The Special Leave Petition (SLP) by social activist G. Sundarrajan against …
All the safety tests regarding the Koodankulam nuclear plant have been done, validated, reviewed by experts, their reports put out in public domain and, above all, looked at by courts and given a clean chit. And that’s why when the People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) steps up protests, it …
Situation continues to be tense, violence spreads to villages of Uvari, Tiruchendur and parts of Tuticorin The anti-Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP) agitation is now spreading to other parts of the Southern coastal districts of Tamil Nadu. While, the protesters (the local fishing community) have started the 48 hrs fasting …
Tension prevailed here for about five hours on Sunday as the police thwarted a bid by about 3,000 agitators to lay siege to the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) site to protest fuel-loading in the reactor. Earlier in the day, the protesters, led by the People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy …
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday announced that the government will build another nuclear power plant in the Southern region of the country after the Rooppur nuclear power plant. "In future, we'll build another power plant in the Southern region of the country," she said while addressing a function after …
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) directed its staff on Thursday to start an environmental review into the temporary storage of spent nuclear fuel, following a court ruling that led the agency to stop issuing new reactor licenses. The NRC did not say when it would start issuing new reactor …
The Pentagon on Wednesday posted a website mapping the amount of radiation to which the tens of thousands of Americans in Japan at the time of last year's earthquake and nuclear disaster were exposed and said none of the doses posed health risks. The 9.0 magnitude March 11, 2011 earthquake …
Department of Atomic Energy has been pulled up for diluting the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Act, in this report tabled in the Parliament on 28.08.2012, by subordinate legislation committee of the Lok Sabha.
New Delhi India's energy plans in Russia may suffer a setback with the country’s nuclear liability law coverage extending to the Kudankulam power plant set up with Moscow’s participation. Russia is already upset after its telecom major Sistema was asked to pay more as licence fee after the 2G spectrum …
Regulatory inspections of nuclear power plants and research facilities have revealed there have been deviation from technical specifications and other regulatory stipulations, deficiencies and degradations in safety-related systems and procedural inadequacies. The Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB), which carried out 47 regulatory inspections, comprising 25 scheduled and 22 special inspections …
If the Central and the State governments are for the welfare of the people, they, like the developed nations that are closing down the nuclear power programmes in a phased manner, should have chosen to give up the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project, Pattali Makkal Katchi founder S. Ramadoss has said. …
The Government of India ratified the Convention on Nuclear Safety on March 31, 2005. This National Report is being submitted by India for review by the Contracting Parties to the 2 nd extraordinary meeting of the Convention on Nuclear Safety (CNS) in accordance with article 23 of the convention.
Clearing the decks for the commissioning of the much-delayed Kudankulam nuclear power plant, the Madras high court on Friday gave its green light saying there was no illegality in its plan and execution. A division bench of Justice P Jyothimani and Justice MDuraiswamy, dismissing all the petitions that sought either …
