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 …
Japan’s utilities are reserving capacity for nuclear power on their grids even though all but two of the nation’s reactors remain closed with little prospect of many others restarting, according to a Reuters survey. The practice risks complicating the biggest overhaul in the history of Japan’s power industry that started …
With global temperatures rising inexorably, some scientists and national security theorists have pondered cooling things down by tinkering mechanically with the planet’s climate. The goal of this geoengineering would be to create an effect not unlike when clouds suddenly block the sun and chill a warm afternoon. Average surface temperatures …
Ahmedabad: At a time when Prime Minister Narendra Modi is attending the two-day Nuclear Security Summit in Washington DC (US), to discuss nuclear security with the world leaders, a study on two proposed nuclear power plants — Mithi Virdi (Gujarat) and Kovvada (Andhra Pradesh) —has found two projects to be …
A new report published by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis has concluded that India’s plans to build 12 new nuclear reactors is economically unviable. According to the new report (PDF), published this week by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA), India’s current plans to …
The purpose of this study is to compare the generating efficiency and CO2-intensity of fossil-fired power plants for Australia, China, France, Germany, India, Japan, Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Sweden and Norway aggregated), South Korea, United Kingdom and Ireland (aggregated), and the United States. This is done by calculating separate benchmark …
Human Rights Forum released a study done by a US-based financial research organisation that warns India that General Electricals and Westinghouse nuclear reactors in Kovvada in Andhra Pradesh and Mithi Vridi in Gujarat are neither cost-effective nor power-efficient. The two reactors, according to the study, also have a huge amount …
Nuclear experts describe the MoU as a backdoor attempt to draw India into the NPT Days before Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Washington DC for the Nuclear Security Summit, a senior Japanese diplomat told The Hindu that India had committed to adhere to the “control of nuclear material, traceability …
It is 30 years since the beginning of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. It is also five years since the Fukushima disaster began. To mark these anniversaries, Greenpeace has commissioned substantial reviews of scientific studies examining the continued radioactive contamination in the affected areas, and the health and social effects on …
NPCIL will be in a position to mobilise Rs 10,000 cr debt and also equity from JV partners The finance minister Arun Jaitley’s proposal to allocate Rs 3000 crore for the nuclear power generation will help the state run Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) to raise debt of Rs …
When Germany committed itself five years ago to phasing out nuclear power by 2022, there was one big gap in its plans -- what to do with the waste that can remain toxic for hundreds of thousands of years. That issue remains unresolved even after a government-appointed nuclear commission came …
Iran has proposed a project with Hungary to design and develop a small nuclear reactor that could be sold across Asia and Africa and also built in the Islamic republic, Tehran's top nuclear official said on Thursday. Iran's Ali Akbar Salehi said he envisaged a joint pilot project with Hungary …
India and UAE on Thursday signed seven agreements spanning cyber security, infrastructure investment, renewable energy and space cooperation as Prime Minister Narendra Modi twice met the visiting Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The two had a tete-a-tete in the morning which was followed up later …
The first reactor of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project on Monday resumed generating electricity. Earlier, it had been stopped for mandatory tests as the turbine was synchronised with the southern grid. Speaking to The Hindu, Site Director, KKNPP, R.S. Sundar said the turbine, which was operated at 11.16 p.m. on Sunday …
Festering question marks over the EPR’s robustness and added worries of cost-related viability of new projects based on this technology are areas of concern The decks may have been cleared for what would be the world’s largest nuclear power generating station by net electrical power rating, with an early-2017 target …
Nuclear Power plant Power plants will be allowed to sell their un-requisitioned capacity– which has been abandoned by the procurer despite existing power purchase agreements– in the open market through power exchanges. The Cabinet on Wednesday approved several changes to the tariff policy for the power sector, with the broad …
NEW DELHI: The government is mulling to bring big hydropower plants under the ambit of renewable energy, giving the capital-intensive projects access to international funds and benefits available to green power, besides raising carbon-free generation of electricity as committed by India in UN climate talks. Power industry experts see this …
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has decided to put off for time being its plans to use nuclear power to increase lifespan of India's second lunar mission Chandrayaan 2 as there has been delay in getting the required nuclear material from Russia. The nuclear power is expected expected to increase …
India confirmed on Wednesday that it was on track to seal a deal in 2016 with Westinghouse Electric to build six nuclear reactors, in a sign the country's $150 billion nuclear power programme is getting off the ground. India also said that it had a deal to build at least …
China is suspending the approval of any new coal mines for three years to eliminate stockpiles and increase new-energy consumption, according to a report in Economic Information Daily on Wednesday. Nur Bekri, director of the National Energy Administration, was quoted as telling a conference on Tuesday that with production overcapacity …
China boasts the world’s largest nuclear power capacity under construction as it strives to reduce pollution from coal-burning generators, an official said yesterday. Nuclear power projects approved and under construction will be able to provide a capacity of 32.03 million kilowatts, said Nur Bekri, head of the National Energy Administration. …
