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 …
It is the turn of the Indian energy establishment to be engulfed in the fire lit by President George Bush on nuclear energy. Bush says it is the safest, cleanest, cheapest option. So prime minister Manmohan Singh on his visit to Washington comes away with a nuclear deal George Bush, …
the us has decided to resume producing plutonium 238, a human-made highly radioactive metal created from uranium in nuclear reactors, for "national security'. This is the first time after the end of the cold war that the country with the highest number of nuclear weapons will produce the deadly metal. …
the global quest to generate commercial energy through nuclear fusion, the same process that powers the Sun, took a concrete shape with France being selected as the host for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Project (iter). The decision came after 18 months of wrangling with Japan
yielding to pressure from the media and activists, who claimed their right to information under the country's Freedom to Information Act, uk's Tony Blair government has revealed a list of 12 secret radioactive waste disposal sites. The list was drawn up in the late 1980s and the then Tory regime …
how about a nuclear reactor that you can carry around in your trousers' pocket? If the work done by a team of us scientists is any indication, this may soon be a reality. The scientists from the us -based University of California, Los Angeles (ucla) have developed a toaster-sized nuclear …
India has ratified the International Atomic Energy Agency's (iaea's) Convention on Nuclear Safety (cns), which legally obligates it to adhere to certain safety principles in constructing, operating and regulating land-based civilian nuclear power plants. This was recently announced by the Union ministry of external affairs. cns was adopted in 1994 …
Concerns have been raised following the Indonesian government's decision to build the country's first nuclear power plant on Java, a densely populated island. The country, faced with increasing energy demands, aims to produce electricity from this facility by 2016. The project was earlier abandoned in 1997 due to strong public …
the Union government recently said no outside body should be allowed to inquire into effluent discharges from the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (barc) at Trombay, Mumbai, because barc's activities are "strategic in nature'. The stand was expressed in an affidavit submitted to the Bombay High Court (hc) by Ananda Bose, …
water distress: The Andhra Pradesh government has embarked upon a new programme to meet the water requirements of its parched villages. It is forcibly taking over private agricultural borewells to supply drinking water. Media reports quoted officials as saying that 528 borewells have already been taken over. The government is …
March 6, 2005; 12.42 pm. The Tarapur Atomic Power Project unit-4 ( tapp -4) control room resounds with claps. Nuclear scientists exchange congratulations: India's largest and first 540-megawatt electric (mwe) nuclear power plant goes
Parts of Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear power station, the site of the world's severest civil nuclear catastrophe that occurred in 1986, will be sold as scrap in March 2005. The money raised will pay for constructing a 20,000-tonne steel case over the present sarcophagus of the plant's reactor (the dome shaped …
Brazil has won a major battle towards securing its right to produce nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. After months of struggle, it has reached a pact with the International Atomic Energy Agency (iaea), the un's nuclear watchdog, which would allow it enrich its own uranium at its Resende plant. Brazil …
The government of Kyrgyzstan has decided to block the shipment of uranium-contaminated graphite to the country by the British Nuclear Fuels Limited (BNFL) for processing. The step is in line with the demands of environmentalists, as well as the common people of the country. The government said its decision is …
backtracking from nuclear shutdown, the eu has declared its intention of building new nuclear power plants in the coming 50 years. The excuse is climate change. The declaration came soon after the eu executive revised the proposals for nuclear safety and waste management legislation on September 8, 2004. Environmentalists allege …
Four Japanese electricity workers were killed and seven injured when turbine steam escaped at a nuclear plant in Mihama, on the Sea of Japan. The incident, involving the highest number of fatalities at a Japanese nuclear power plant, has heightened concern about the nuclear industry. The Kansai Electric Power Company …
lethal teflon: The US Environment Protection Agency (EPA) has charged the DuPont company with hiding the adverse health and environmental effects of Teflon, used in its non-stick cookware and carpet protection product. In doing so, the company violated the federal Toxic Substances Control Act from June 1981 to March 2001, …
Four problems bedevil the nuclear energy sector: proliferation, political coyness over technology options that discourage proliferation, radioactive waste, and
India's nuclear power programme is also entering a crucial phase. Every challenge for the next 50 years the conference debated, India has to face and sort out before running the nuclear path. It needs to do that fast because it is just beginning to take its nuclear power programme seriously. …
Would it be cynical to interpret the conference's call to revive the nuclear power sector as hardsell? No. The present is as opportune a moment as can be. And for two sets of reasons. For one, 70 per cent of the world's 442 nuclear reactors will have turned utterly geriatric …
In Moscow, a celebration. One date symbolically sutured the two Russian cities: June 27. On that day, in 1954, the world’s first nuclear power station hummed into life in Obninsk, producing electricity till 2002. On that day 50 years later, 500 scientists and policy makers from 32 countries attended the …
