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 …
Once the controversial civil nuclear liability bill takes the shape of law, a complex generating one of the highest amounts of nuclear power in India would be set up in Ratnagiri district
NEW DELHI, 20 AUG: Bowing to pressure from the BJP and the Left parties, the government today dropped a controversial addition in the civil nuclear liability Bill which the Opposition said diluted the liability of suppliers for accidents caused by their negligence. The Union Cabinet, at a meeting chaired by …
Santosh Patnaik VISAKHAPATNAM: The Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC) of the Ministry of Environment and Forests has asked the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) to submit a detailed report for finalising Terms of Reference (ToR) for environment impact assessment study for the nuclear power park at Kovvada in Srikakulam …
Brahma Chellaney With accident-liability protection constituting another layer of state subsidy to foreign reactor vendors, the spectre of dozens of Enrons in the nuclear-energy sector is real. The controversial Indo-U.S. nuclear deal was pushed through without building
Jaipur: The Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) on Wednesday cleared the proposed Rajasthan Atomic Power Station Units 7 and 8. The two new reactors are to come up at the Rawatbhata Nuclear Power site in Rajasthan where six reactors of 1,180 MW are functioning, Nuclear Power Corp of India executive …
New Delhi: The government has ensured safe passage for the bill on civil liability for nuclear damage after sealing a deal with BJP on Tuesday by agreeing to a guarantee against private firms running power plants and bumping up the
THE UPA government has secured the support of BJP for the nuclear liability bill after it made concessions which, among other things, include shutting out private players from the nuclear sector. This represents a setback for Indian private companies that are keen to enter nuclear power equipment business. US and …
New Delhi: The parliamentary standing committee examining the civil liability for nuclear damage bill is expected to finalize its report on Tuesday even as there appears to have been little headway in negotiations between government and the Left and BJP over the proposed legislation. There are strong indications that the …
Promoters of nuclear plants need patience and deep pockets. That’s the lesson being reinforced for India—from a showpiece project in its backyard and another in Finland, where French company Areva’s flagship project, is running into time and cost overruns. Both have implications for India’s programme of taking nuclear generation capacity …
There is no question that India desperately needs to generate more power. The energy indicators say it all. It has the lowest per capita consumption of electricity in the world. This when access to energy is correlated with development, indeed with economic growth. Let us not dismiss the need for …
New Delhi: With UPA-2 under intense pressure to ensure the passage of a civil nuclear liability law, the BJP on Wednesday asked the government to come clean on why it wanted to push through the proposed legislation ahead of US president Barack Obama
THE Opposition on Wednesday managed to put off tabling of the NuClear Liability Bill by at least a week, but unfazed by the lack of consensus over it the government was planning to take up the legislation in the ongoing monsoon session of Parliament itself. The standing committee on science …
New Delhi: The parliamentary standing committee examining the civil liability for nuclear damage bill on Tuesday heard representatives of the Department of Atomic Energy offer their views on the Convention of Supplementary Compensation. The DAE brass did not specifically state whether India was going to become part of the CSC …
Established by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct), the Interagency Task Force on Radiation Source Protection and Security (Task Force) has made important progress since its 2006 report to the President and Congress to improve the security of domestic radioactive sources given the enduring threat of terrorists seeking radioactive …
New Delhi: The political positioning on civil liability for nuclear damage bill became clearer with BJP presenting what it said were fundamental objections to the proposed legislation with regard to a law when liability for a nuclear accident was to be borne by either the government or a company owned …
Missiles Moved Out Of Depot As Toll Rises To 52Moscow: A noxious smog choked Moscow on Friday as Russia moved to protect military and nuclear sites from the relentless spread of wildfires that have killed 52 people. The defence ministry ordered the evacuation of missiles from a depot outside Moscow …
New Delhi: If the dominant view in the parliamentary committee examining the bill on civil liability for nuclear damage prevails, the proposed law will be fitted with tougher clauses detailing
The Indian government, at the last round of commercial negotiations with Russia for the supply of four additional reactors at Kudankulum, had wanted the contract to include a clause allowing for the
Swaraj Thapa The nuclear liability Bill is set to undergo significant changes. These will include increase in the timeframe for filing claims from 10 to 20 years, extending the definition of
