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 …

PM calls plan panel meet to discuss energy policy

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called a meeting of the full Planning Commission on Saturday to discuss the integrated energy policy and deliberate on the country

Roadmap soon on N-projects

BY MUKESH RANJAN With the Indo-US civil nuclear deal set to be clinched by the month-end, plans have been set afoot to prepare a roadmap for speedy implementation of projects augmenting nuclear energy in the country. For the purpose, ahead of his visit to the US next week, Prime Minister …

Implications of India joining the nuclear club (Debate)

Our entry into the nuke cabal has become a contentious issue, both domestically and internationally. Three experts debate the pros and cons of the NSG waiver vis-a-vis commerce, technology and strategic affairs. I S S U E S Does India stand to gain strategically and in terms of access to …

Critics are more worried about bomb than energy

Critics are more worried about bomb than energy Our Political Bureau NEW DELHI EVEN as the Manmohan Singh government celebrated the end of three decades of nuclear isolation, critics of the nuclear deal criticised the waiver for

Nuclear power crucial for meeting countrys energy needs: Sonia

Karthik Madhavan GREETING THE CROWD: Congress president Sonia Gandhi at a public meeting in Erode on Thursday. (From left) Union Minister E.V.K.S. Elangovan; Congress observer for Tamil Nadu Arun Kumar; TNCC president K.V. Thankgabalu and Union Minister G.K. Vasan are in the picture. ERODE: Congress president Sonia Gandhi has said …

Key world energy statistics 2008

In 1997 the IEA produced a handy, pocket-sized summary of key energy data. This new edition responds to the enormously positive reaction to the books since then. Key World Energy Statistics from the IEA contains timely, clearly-presented data on the supply, transformation and consumption of all major energy sources. The …

Brief

clean energy Nuclear deal gets through With the International Atomic Energy Agency clearing India

Finest vs idle environmentalists

Robert Tait Turkey Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has lambasted environmentalists as "idle,' saying they "prance around' doing nothing to protect nature. Recep Tayyip Erdogan

The water question : How nuclear technology can help

by O.P. Sabherwal AMIDST the hefty energy crunch, let us not forget the equally pressing water problem. India's water problem is acute and growing - in three directions. In large parts of rural India, as also in many urban localities, water pollution, brackish water and water contamination with chemical effluents …

France sticks with nuclear power

FLAMANVILLE, France: It looks like an ordinary building site, but for the two massive, rounded concrete shells looming above the ocean, like dusty mushrooms. Here on the Normandy coast, France is building its newest nuclear reactor, alongside two older ones. It is the first reactor to be built in the …

The Radioactive Energy Plan

Germans were once dead set against nuclear energy. But high energy costs are forcing them to rethink. The latest casualty of the rising cost of energy is one of Europe's most persistent political taboos: Germany's striking aversion to nuclear power. Nowhere else did the opposition to atomic energy become as …

Now, the next step

Interview with Anil Kakodkar, AEC Chairman. Anil Kakodkar: "There is no chance of stoppage of reactors because the stockpile will be available."

Now that the votes been won

Government can bare its pro-industry fangs many epithets, dripping with political morality a-characteristic of the event, were used to describe what transpired in Parliament on July 22, 2008, when the Congress-led upa managed to win a life-saving vote of trust in the Lok Sabha. But everyone acknowledged this day would …

N-energy Is Not Clean

Every international report on India says that India should seek options that are proactive in terms of developing international strategies to reduce the risk of destructive climate change. Knowing this, why does the government refuse to do anything to establish alternative sources of energy? This is the ministry with the …

Power Play

For most people, the nuclear energy issue is much like the story of the six blind men and the elephant: different pieces, but no coherent overall picture. For some, it

Too little power for Rising India

WE HAVE got to face up to the fact that India as a whole is in the midst of a serious energy deficit. Insufficient power could well turn out to be the Achilles heel of this country's dream of making rapid economic strides to fight poverty and to remain lodged …

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