Walk, cycle, and public transport will not work if people are not safe, are injured or die while accessing jobs, educational services, markets, recreation and a range of daily chores. Road injuries and deaths have recorded an unacceptable increase in Indian cities. An astounding number of walkers, cyclists, public transport …
The Sri Lankan government today expressed concern over a possible nuclear threat from the controversial Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in Tamil Nadu in Southern India as it went into operation for the first time. The Sri Lankan government on Tuesday said it could not rule out the possibility of a …
Britain is set to sign a deal with France's EDF for the first nuclear plant to start construction in Europe since Japan's Fukushima disaster raised safety concerns worldwide, at a cost estimated at around $23 billion. Under the deal, expected to be announced on Monday, the French utility will lead …
Keen on sealing the agreement for two more nuclear reactors in Kudankulam during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to Russia next week, India has suggested a way to quantify the insurance risk amount for Russian suppliers to try and cross the civil nuclear liability roadblock that has held up the …
Experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency met Japanese officials Monday as part of a mission to assess clean-up efforts at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant. The U.N. atomic agency began the nine-day mission at the request of the Japanese government, as it did in 2011 following a powerful …
Japanese authorities may have underestimated by 20% the radiation doses workers got in the initial phase of the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster, a Japanese newspaper reported on Saturday, citing a U.N. panel. A big earthquake and tsunami in March 2011 damaged the power station north of Tokyo, operated by …
Radiation levels in seawater just outside one of the damaged Fukushima reactors spiked this week to the highest level in two years, the operator of the crippled Japanese nuclear plant said on Thursday. Radiation levels on Wednesday, the day six workers were exposed to highly radioactive water, jumped 13 times …
Six workers at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant were exposed to a leak of highly radioactive water on Wednesday, the latest in a string of mishaps the country's nuclear watchdog has attributed to carelessness, saying they could have been avoided. Tokyo Electric Power Co, also known as Tepco, has been …
Tokyo Electric Power Co. says it has found that an unspecified amount of water contaminated with a highly concentrated radioactive substance escaped from another storage tank at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant and some may have reached the Pacific Ocean. Tepco said Wednesday it detected 200,000 becquerels per liter …
Farmers and other villagers affected by the proposed 6000 MW nuclear power plant at village Mithi Virdi in Bhavnagar, Gujarat took out a massive rally on 23 Sep 2013 and presented this memorandum addressed to the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh. “Not here, not anywhere; not in any country in …
PIL to implement disaster management guidelines of nuclear and radiological emergencies In the High Court of Judicature at Madras dated 10/11/2011. This public interest litigation questions the failure of the respondents to implement the Guidelines on Management of Nuclear and Radiological Emergencies with regard to Madras Atomic Power Station, Kalpakkam, …
Brazil will probably scale down its plans for new nuclear plants due to safety concerns following the 2011 radiation leak in Japan and pick up some of the slack with a "revolution" in wind power, the head of the government's energy planning agency said. Mauricio Tolmasquim, chief of the Energy …
Japan's nuclear crisis escalated to its worst level in two years on Wednesday, with its nuclear watchdog saying it feared more tanks were leaking contaminated water and China expressing its shock over the disaster. Japan's nuclear regulator also said it feared the disaster exceeded the ability of the plant's operator, …
Highly radioactive water from Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is pouring out at a rate of 300 tonnes a day, officials said on Wednesday, as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ordered the government to step in and help in the clean-up. The admission indicates that two and a half years after …
The operator of Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant said on Monday that contaminated ground water had likely been flowing into the sea, acknowledging such a leakage for the first time. Tokyo Electric Power Co., or Tepco, made the announcement a day after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's pro-nuclear Liberal Democratic …
An environmental group has filed a fresh petition in the Madras high court seeking review on clearance for first Approach to Criticality With India’s 21st nuclear reactor at Kudankulam set to produce power in another two to three weeks, clearance by the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) has now hit …
There is no practical option to nuclear power. Accordingly, there is absolutely no shift of official policy regarding its prime role for meeting future needs regarding energy, R K Sinha, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission has said. Also secretary of the department of atomic energy, he said so at …
The company is supposed to supply two reactors of 1,650 Mw each to the Nuclear Power Corporation (NPC) for Jaitapur Areva, the Paris-based partner for the government in the Jaitapur nuclear power project in Maharashtra, has asked the French government and banks for help on cost-sharing. The company is supposed …
The European Commission on Thursday published a draft nuclear safety law that includes mandatory EU-wide reviews every six years in response to lessons learnt from the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan. In the aftermath of the Japanese nuclear tragedy, the EU carried out a series of stress tests to examine …
A crucial investors’ meeting to underwrite the financial package for two 1,650 megawatt Areva EPR reactors to be built in Jaitapur, Maharashtra, got under way here with a top four-man team from India, includingofficials from the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) and the Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL). Senior …
The Supreme Court on Monday said there is no basis to the fear that the radioactive effects of the Kudankulam nuclear power plant, when commissioned, will be far reaching. A Bench of Justices K.S. Radhakrishnan and Dipak Misra said: “We are convinced that the KKNPP design incorporates advanced safety features …
