Nuclear Power

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding poor handling of the fly ash by Rajiv Gandhi Thermal Power Plant, Khedar, Hisar district, Haryana, 27/05/2025

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 …

Obama's address to Parliament

Read text of US President Obama's address to the Indian Parliament. He said that US-India can pursue joint R&D; to create green jobs, give Indians access to cleaner, affordable energy and meet commitments made at Copenhagen.

Vietnam gets aid for nuclear power plants

SINGAPORE: The civil nuclear energy option has come into sharp focus in Southeast Asia, with Vietnam firming up foreign aid and Singapore evincing interest. Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said here on Monday

Impact of the global financial crisis on investments in South Asia's electric power infrastructure

While the global financial crisis appears to have had little impact on the flow of funds to South Asia’s power sector, the sector still needs up to $150 billion in additional investments to meet its growing electricity demand by 2015 says this report by World Bank’s Energy Sector Management Assistance …

Vietnam & Japan to mine rare earth

HANOI: Vietnam has chosen to partner Japan in mining rare earth minerals and building a nuclear power plant in the Southeast Asian country, Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said on Sunday, as Tokyo seeks to reduce its dependence on China. Japan, the world

Dangerous liaisons

Sri Lanka is flirting with nuclear power. Sri Lanka is becoming a power hungry nation. Several coal power plants with a total generation capacity of 3,200 MW are on the anvil. The country’s new energy minister, Champika Ranawaka, wants a nuclear power plant by 2025. That’s a sure sign of …

15K-tonne uranium in 3 states

India will have a comfortable position in its indigenous uranium resources in the coming decade as it has established an additional 15,000 tonnes of uranium resources in Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan and Meghalaya, chairman, Atomic Energy Commission Dr Srikumar Banerjee said. This additional resource has taken the country

Shadow Integrated Energy Policy (IEP): a critique on Planning Commission document on Integrated Energy Policy

Energy has become a crucial sector of the modern society, so much so that per capita availability of energy is considered as an indicator of economic prosperity. However, the social, economic and environmental impacts of demand/supply of energy are so great that only a holistic and objective consideration of all …

Survey of energy resources 2010

This, the 22nd edition of the World Energy Council's Survey of Energy Resources (SER), is the latest in a long series of reviews of the status of the world

PFC to help NPCIL set up nuclear plants

The Power Finance Corporation (PFC) and the Nuclear Corporation of India Ltd. (NPCIL) have entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to facilitate NPCIL to set up nuclear power projects. The MoU was signed in New Delhi on Thursday by PFC Chairman and Managing Director Satnam Singh and NPCIL Chairman …

Iran agrees to resume nuclear talks with West

Iran said that it is ready to resume talks with the West about its nuclear programme in November, officials at the European Union said here on Friday. In a two-paragraph letter to the bloc

No private role in operating n-plants, says minister

As the country embarks on an ambitious civilian nuclear programme, Minister of State in the Prime Minister

India-US to sign nuke damages agreement today

New Delhi: India will sign the international agreement on nuclear damages, the Convention on Supplementary Compensation (CSC) for Nuclear Damage, on Wednesday. The Manmohan Singh government has informed the IAEA that it

Iran injects fuel into first n-reactor

Iran began loading fuel into the core of its first atomic power plant on Tuesday, moving closer to the start up of a facility that leaders have touted as defying of international efforts to curtail the country's nuclear ambitions. The Russian-built nuclear power plant in Bushehr has international approval and …

India will approach IAEA today to sign n-damages pact

In line with its commitment to the United States, India will formally approach the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Wednesday to sign the Convention on Supplementary Compensation (CSC) on nuclear damage. If all goes to plan, the signature, sources said, will also take place on Wednesday. India has been …

Japan N-deal on fast track as PM holds Tokyo talks

India moved swiftly to quell any misinterpretation that the Indo-Japan civilian nuclear agreement had been put on the backburner after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, in answer to a question from a prominent Japanese businessman, had earlier on Monday seemed to signal that he would not push the pace for a …

Obama coming, officials struggle to narrow distance

Bringing to bear his political weight amid, so far, unsuccessful efforts at the official level to bridge differences on a range of critical issues, US President Barack Obama is learnt to have written a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh conveying America

No N-liability law changes; but PM sees Japan pact

THE UPA leadership has ruled out any reworking of the civil nuclear liability law passed by the Parliament.

PM says won't force N-deal issue on Japan

With Japan playing hard ball in the negotiations on the civil nuclear deal, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday said he would not "force" it on Tokyo as he recognises its sensitivity on the subject. However, Dr Singh, who is here on a two-day visit, said he would like Japanese …

Whos next? Nuclear ambivalence and the contradictions of non-proliferation policy

This paper argues that the limit of conventional non-proliferation policy analysis is marked by the inability to come to terms with the ambivalence of nuclear power. Ambivalence is often glossed over in the literature as

Soon, major airports to install systems for radioactive checks

New Delhi: The government has decided to install a radioactive material detection system at key airports in the country to avoid any illegal trafficking of radiation sources.

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