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 …
bi-advantages: As per researchers from Canada's York University, bilingualism is useful not only because it makes it possible to talk to more number of people. They have found that bilinguals perform a variety of cognitive tasks better than people who speak only one language. Furthermore, the differences between the two …
the un, a key opponent of weapons of mass destruction, is ironically all set to harness nuclear energy to combat malaria. Its International Atomic Energy Agency (iaea) intends to soon use the Sterile Insect Technique (sit) in Africa
April 23 marked the end of the 300-year-old coal mining industry in France. On that day, the last symbolic block of coal was extracted from the La Houve mine near the town of Creutzwald, abutting the German border. The closure was not abrupt; over the years, several west European coalmines …
A uranium drought haunts India's nuclear programme. And in the rush to end this scarcity, UCIL has failed in gaining people's confidence. The country's current nuclear power generation is entirely dependent on natural uranium (see chart: All reactions delayed), which fuels 12 pressurised heavy water reactors and all research projects. …
The first stage of nuclear programme is way behind schedule and is mired in controversies, but the second stage seems to have more problems in store. When the Union cabinet sat down on September 2 last year to approve the construction of a 500 MW prototype fast breeder reactor in …
thirty years after they were abandoned for good, nuclear reactors are making a fatal comeback in the us spacecrafts. In 2003, the us National Aeronautics and Space Administration (nasa) was notified about a federal commitment of us $3 billion to develop nuclear-fuelled engines in the next five years. The sum …
The final stage of the international nuclear fusion project, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (iter), estimated to cost us $12 billion over the next 10 years, has been deferred. Officials from several countries meeting in Washington were unable to decide upon a location for the final stage of the project
On Friday, November 14, 2003 Germany switched off the first of its 19 nuclear power stations, at Stade near Hamburg. The move was part of a deal the centre-left government had struck with industry in 2000: to close all nuclear power plants by 2025. It was also politically astute
the Indian nuclear establishment is about to embark on uncharted territory. In a bid to achieve its ever-elusive power generation targets, it now proposes to design and develop compact high-temperature reactors (chtrs) that can produce electricity as well as liberate hydrogen from water. Significantly, no country has so far employed …
unearthed: Thought to be extinct, the lizard Barkudia insularis has been sighted in Orissa's Chilika lagoon after more than 85 years. Ajit Kumar Patnaik, chief executive officer of the Chilika Development Authority revealed that the limbless skink was rediscovered by a team checking out soil conditions for a threatened mangrove …
The construction of the Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor, a milestone on the road to energy security, begins at Kalpakkam in Tamil Nadu. AS the 40-metre-tall tower crane's boom (arm) lifts up an L-shaped steel contraption called shutter, dangles it high in the air, and then lowers it on to a …
On September 2, India embarked on the next stage of its nuclear programme. The Union cabinet cleared the Department of Atomic Energy's (dae) proposal for the Rs 3,500-crore, 500-megawatt (mw) prototype of the fast-breeder nuclear power reactor (fbpr) at Kalpakkam in Tamil Nadu. Ironically, the upgrade involves a technology that …
With temperatures in Europe at an all-time high, German nuclear plants have become too hot to handle. The soaring mercury has forced authorities to switch off the reactor at one plant and reduce the capacity of two others. Obrigheim, the country's oldest nuclear power plant, has had its reactor deactivated …
Ireland has initiated legal action against the UK, contending that the controversial Sellafield nuclear plant be shut down since it pollutes the Irish Sea with radioactive waste and is at risk of being targeted by terrorists. The plant is located in northwest England, opposite Ireland's east coast. Ireland has taken …
This document contains text of the Electricity Act, 2003 [No. 36 OF 2003]. An Act to consolidate the laws relating to generation, transmission, distribution, trading and use of electricity and generally for taking measures conducive to development of electricity industry, promoting competition therein, protecting interest of consumers and supply of …
