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 …

Shift Of Power

If Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh has his way, the state could boast of 50,000 MW of new power plants by the end of 2020 — investments over Rs 1.75 lakh crore could come into the state, which is rich in natural resources but ranks 11th in terms of per …

India energy handbook 2011

PSI Media Inc presents the India energy handbook 2011 to identify business opportunities and track the progress of projects in rapidly growing markets for technologies that minimize pollutant emissions associated with the use of fossil fuels. These technologies include renewables and nuclear power, which displace traditional primary-energy resources.

Key world energy statistics 2010

This 2010 edition of Key World Energy Statistics by IEA consists of global data up to 2008 and when available up to 2009, for energy production, trade, transformation and consumption, CO2 emissions from fuel combustion and energy prices. What countries in the world are the largest energy producers by fuel? …

New paradigm in energy security in India

Global energy consumption has nearly doubled in the past few decades, and this increase has been driven by population growth, rising living standards, invention of energy-dependent technologies and consumerism. Energy security is a key global challenge - one which will require global perspectives, global thinking, global solutions, and innovation of …

Handbook on nuclear law: implementing legislation

This handbook is a practical aid to legislative drafting that brings together, for the first time, model texts of provisions covering all aspects of nuclear law in a consolidated form. Organized along the same lines as the Handbook on Nuclear Law, published by the IAEA in 2003, and containing updated …

Who's afraid of radiation?

Our attitude to ionising radiation is irrational, and easing safety limits would do far more good than harm, says Wade Allison.

N-liability bill faces rough ride in standing committee

Clause-By-Clause Discussion On Bill Deferred, No New Date Fixed New Delhi: The civil nuclear liability bill may have been the priority number one for the government just a few months back, but now it faces the uphill task of getting past the standing committee on science and technology. It is …

Nuke bill likely to become victim of current impasse

WHILE Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is keen on getting the Civil Nuclear Liability Bill passed, his enthusiasm on the subject is not shared by his party. As Congress engages its main political adversary in a pitched battle, the prime minister

Open to changes in N-liability bill: Centre

New Delhi: With the fate of civil liability for nuclear damage bill getting enmeshed with stalemated ties with Left and fresh hostilities with BJP, the government is open to defining responsibilities for a nuclear accident more closely. The government is open to inserting clauses that will cover eventualities like accidents …

Govt assures Oppn on n-Bill

The government on Tuesday stepped up moves to ease potential hurdles before the Nuclear Liability Bill in Parliament by holding consultations with Opposition leaders with the assurance that all

UK likely to miss legal 2020 renewable energy target

Energy secretary Chris Huhne focuses on 2050 targets in first major policy statement but admits the UK faces 'short-term challenges' to meet targets for renewable energy.

N-liability Bill: Committee to hold more meetings

Giving in to pressure from Opposition members, the Standing Committee on Science and Technology on Wednesday postponed deliberations on the Nuclear Liability Bill. The committee, which had earlier decided to hold clause by clause deliberations on the Bill on Thursday and then bring it before the Lok Sabha, has now …

4 proposed nuke plants hit green roadblock

New Delhi: Four new nuclear power plants proposed by Nuclear Power Corporation of India have run into trouble with the environment and forests ministry rejecting their initial applications for statutory environmental clearances. NPCIL has proposed four power plants, one each at Fatehabad in Haryana (2,800mw), Mandla in Madhya Pradesh (1,400mw), …

Another snag at TAPS, Unit 3 too shut down

YET another technical snag has forced closure of one of the units at the Tarapur Atomic Power Station (TAPS), country

Left works overtime to nuke liability bill

MORE trouble appears to be brewing for the Indo-US nuclear liability bill with the Left planning to reach out to non-Congress members in the parliamentary panel to seek fundamental changes in the legislation. The Left is pinning its hopes on the anti-Bill sentiments within the Parliament

Fuel position for indigenous N-power plants comfortable: DAE

There is progressive improvement in uranium fuel position for operating indigenous Pressurised Heavy Water Reactors (PHWRs) with gradual increasing in production from indigenous uranium mills besides the imported fuel, department of Atomic Energy sources said.

Radiation-wary DU to come up with lab manual within a week

After more than two months of the source of exposure of radioactive substance Cobalt-60 being traced to the Chemistry laboratory of Delhi University (DU), the university authorities have woken up and are now about to come up with a laboratory manual. According to Professor AK Bakhshi, Head of the Department …

Buddha wants firm stand from Centre on Haripur nuke power venture

AMIDST increasing resistance from Trinamool Congress activists, West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has urged the Centre to take a stronger stand if the mega Haripur nuke power venture in the state is to see the light of day. This was communicated to the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) chairman and …

Beyond Bhopal: incentive for unsafe industries

Luck plays in strange ways. I was reaching for my scooter when the telephone rang in my office-cum-residence in Bhopal. I opened the gate, unlocked the door downstairs, ran up the steps to the first floor and opened the door to my apartment. Normally the caller would have given up, …

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