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 …
China is set to beat its 2020 targets for nuclear power, the chairman of the country's top nuclear firm told Reuters, after getting back on track with projects that had been halted after Japan's Fukushima disaster. Beijing is undertaking the world's biggest expansion of civilian nuclear power as the government …
We will find solution within law to objections raised by foreign firms: Montek India has ruled out diluting the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Act and hoped a solution to the stalemate caused by foreign companies not agreeing to two of its clauses will be found within the framework of …
Engineers India Limited (EIL) is diversifying into areas such as water and waste water management, nuclear and solar power and green infrastructure to increase its revenues. EIL chairman and managing director AK Purwaha said the company has taken this initiative to drive growth by leveraging its experience and technological knowhow. …
Marking three years of the Fukushima disaster, AAP leader and Supreme Court advocate Prashant Bhushan raised the pitch against the government’s attempt to bypass supplier liability provisions in their current negotiations with the Russians on the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant. “The cost of the Fukushima disaster has been conservatively estimated …
China's environment ministry has given the initial go-ahead for the construction of two new AP1000 nuclear reactors designed by U.S.-based Westinghouse in the eastern coastal province of Shandong, it said late on Thursday. The Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) said the proposed new reactors at the Haiyang nuclear facility in …
Japan unveiled its first draft energy policy since the Fukushima meltdowns three years ago, saying nuclear power remains an important source of electricity for the country. The draft presented Tuesday to the cabinet for approval expected in March, said Japan’s nuclear energy dependency will be reduced as much as possible, …
It has produced 69 crore units since inception in October 2013. The first unit at Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KKNPP) has, so far, produced 69 crore units of power ever since production started in October 2013, its Site Director, R.S. Sundar, said here on Thursday. He was here to flag …
About 100 tons of water containing high levels of radioactive material leaked at the damaged Japanese nuclear power plant in Fukushima, the operator of the plant said Thursday. Tokyo Electric Power Co said it had detected the leak from a storage tank at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Wednesday …
The Obama administration will finalize about $6.5 billion in loan guarantees this week for the nation's first two new nuclear reactors in three decades, ending years of delay. U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz will travel to Waynesboro, Georgia, on Thursday to mark the completion of an agreement backing the construction …
The Supreme Court on Monday sought response from Centre and Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) on implementation of safety guidelines issued by it for Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in Tamil Nadu. A bench headed by Justice K S Radhakrishnan asked the authorities to file report within three weeks on a …
Amid protest by villagers, Mandla district administration held a public hearing for proposed nuclear plant at Chutka area on Monday. According to district administration about 500 people mostly tribals and residents from the region participated at the public hearing and expressed their views freely. Tribal leaders on the other hand …
China will provide loan of $6.5 billion for nuclear power plants KANUPP-2 and KANUPP-3 on soft terms, which will help Pakistan to make a substantial improvement in its dire electrical power shortage problem. Earlier, china has also provided similar loan terms for the Chashma nuclear power plants C-3 and C-4, …
He said over 29,000 MW of power generation capacity has been added in the current financial year alone The government today said the country's installed power generation capacity has more than doubled to 2,34,600 MW in the past 10 years. "India's power generation capacity 10 years ago (2004) was 1,12,700 …
Bangladesh Poribesh Andolon (Bapa) organised the discussion at Dhaka Reporters’ Unity Environmentalists have expressed concerns over the establishment of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant alleging that the project was taken without conducting proper assessment of risk management. At a discussion yesterday, they also urged the government to take proper precautions to …
Praying to St Peter is not much of an energy policy. Yet that is what Brazil’s government seems to be doing by counting on rain—which, according to folklore, São Pedro dispenses at the pearly gates—to sort out a looming electricity crisis. Hydropower generates 80% of Brazil’s electricity. Typically, reservoirs fill …
California, grappling with how to keep the lights on and meet environmental goals after closing a major nuclear power plant, is considering allowing owners to delay retiring some older gas-fired generators. In an interview on February 4, California Energy Commission Chair Robert Weisenmiller said that the State Water Resources Control …
The president of Indian Association of Nuclear Chemists and Allied Scientists of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), K. L. Ramkumar, on Monday said that the Department of Atomic Energy had taken steps to allay the fears of people over the safety of nuclear power projects across the country, particularly the …
An environmental impact assessment (EIA) study of the twin nuclear power plants to be built in the Paradise Point area had been conducted by the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) and was heard by an expert committee constituted by the Sindh Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) last year, sources told Dawn. …
Climate and energy scientists James Hansen, Ken Caldeira, Kerry Emanuel and Tom Wigley released this open letter calling on world leaders to support development of safer nuclear power systems.
At the end of 2013, prominent scientists and pioneers of climate change studies published an open letter to the people of the world in the fight against climate change, and recommended the use of nuclear power generation. Japanese scientists and a former policy maker with the experiences of Fukushima nuclear …
