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 …

Nuclear power generation

Last November, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif performed the ground breaking ceremony of Pakistan’s largest nuclear power projects, Kanupp-II and Kanupp-III. China is providing the two reactors alongside a concessional loan of $6.5 billion for the construction of these $9.59 billion plants. When completed in November 2019, these would add 2,200MW …

N-power booster for Haryana

PM sets ball rolling for 2,800 MW Fatehabad nuclear project Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday set the ball rolling for the 2800 MW Fatehabad nuclear power project that promises to boost growth and provide job avenues to the people in the state. The Prime Minister, who laid the foundation …

India committed to safety of nuclear plants: PM

Lays foundation stone for 2,800-MWe project in Haryana Reiterating the government’s commitment to ensure full safety of nuclear power plants, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday expressed confidence that the country would meet the target of raising its nuclear power capacity to 27,000 MWe over the next 10 years. Laying …

Non-fossil fuels rise in China's energy mix - paper

Non-fossil fuels generated 9.8 percent of China's energy in 2013, up from 9.1 percent the previous year, while coal's share in the energy mix fell slightly, state media reported Tuesday. The rise in non-fossil fuels use -- which are expected to grow again this year -- signals that the world's …

No fresh assurance from PM disappoints plant-hit villagers

Farmers of Gorakhpur, Badopal and Kajalheri villages, who were banking on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit for some announcement on rehabilitation package for the people displaced by the nuclear power plant, were disappointed on Monday as he only repeated the compensation package already announced by the Haryana government. While they …

Gorakhpur project safe, claims NPCIL

Officials of Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) said here today that the Gorakhpur Haryana Anu Vidyut Project (GHAVP) was completely safe and the apprehensions on its safety were false. The Parmanu Virodhi Morcha, a coalition of the anti-nuclear energy associations, has announced a protest against the launch of …

Nuclear fuel complex likely soon at Rawatbhata

JAIPUR: The deck is cleared for setting up the country's second nuclear fuel complex at Rawatbhata near Kota in Chittorgarh district. The environmental clearance from the ministry of environment and forests is in the final stages of approval and nuclear experts are very positive about getting the clearance soon. The …

Haryana nuclear project to be on stream in 5 years

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will lay the foundation stone on Monday for a nuclear power project near Gorakhpur village in Fatehbad district of Haryana. The project will comprise two reactors of 700 MWe each. They are Pressurised Heavy Water Reactors (PHWRs) that will use natural uranium as fuel and heavy …

Green activists threaten protest against N-plant

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who will be inaugurating the nuclear power plant on January 13 at Gorakhpur village in Haryana, is likely to be greeted by resolute environmentalists opposing the project. Activists of the Parmanu Virodhi Morcha, a coalition of anti-nuclear energy NGOs, are preparing for a massive protest at …

N-plant opponents plan protest during PM’s visit

Gorakhpur nuclear plant inauguration on Jan 13 When Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrives in Gorakhpur of Fatehabad district to inaugurate Haryana’s first nuclear power station, he is likely to be greeted by determined environmentalists opposed to the plant. Activists of the Parmanu Virodhi Morcha, a coalition of anti-nuclear energy NGOs, …

Green, health concerns over Fatehabad N-plant

About an hour's drive from the industrial city of Hisar, a village with rich fertile land spread across hundreds of acres is awaiting a rebirth. Ask anyone in Gorakhpur about their future, most will reply with a hint of what is predestined: "parmanu yug (nuclear age) has come." Yet there …

Sensitive Japan asks India to address safe use of nuclear energy

Even as hopes rise of a civil nuclear accord with Japan following confirmation that its Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will be the chief guest at Republic Day celebrations here, an influential lawmaker from Tokyo indicated on Monday that the path ahead was still not smooth and India should make concessions …

Now, anti-nuclear forces mobilise against power project

NPCIL already awaits important clearances from Centre Even as the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) awaits some important clearances from the Centre prior to the formal launch of Haryana's first nuclear power project at Gorakhpur in Fatehabad, anti-nuclear power forces have also started mobilising against the project. Sources …

N-energy centre to put Jhajjar on global strategic map today

Prime Minister to lay foundation stone Tomorrow, Haryana will emerge on the global strategic map when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh lays the foundation stone of the Global Centre for Nuclear Energy Partnership. The project is the result of India’s collaboration with four countries that are permanent members of the five-member …

8,900MW nuclear power generation planned

Pakistan plans to have seven functional nuclear plants of 1,100MW each by 2030 in addition to four units of 300MW, producing a total of 8,900MW of electricity. Chairman of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission Dr Ansar Parvez told newsmen on Wednesday at the Chashma Nuclear Power Complex, 280km southwest of …

China to give $6.5bn concessional loan for N-plants

Pakistan has signed a $6.5 billion ‘concessionary loan’ agreement with China for projects under civil nuclear cooperation, including development of two power plants near Karachi of 2,200MW, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said here on Wednesday. “This is a very big loan that China has extended. It is very cheap and …

Proposed Haryana nuke plant gets environment ministry's conditional nodd

A nuclear power plant proposed to be set up in Haryana is one step short of getting the green clearance with a high-level panel of the environment ministry giving conditional nod. The decision to recommend green clearance to the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) proposal for setting up …

Proposal for nuclear power plant in Haryana cleared.

A key environmental panel has recommended clearance for the proposed Rs. 23,502-crore nuclear power plant in Fatehabad district of Haryana. Environment Minister Veerappa Moily, who took charge recently, will now have to take the final decision on whether to permit the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd. (NPCIL) to go …

Letter to Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited from Ministry of Environment & Forests regarding environmental clearance dated 27th December, 2013

Letter to Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited from Ministry of Environment & Forests regarding environmental clearance of Gorakhpur Haryana Anu Vidyut Pariyojna (Formerly, Haryana Atomic Power Project (4X700 MWe) at Village Gorakhpur, District Fatehabad, Haryana by M/s Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd. (NPCIL) dated 27th December, 2013

DAE in a fix over high cost of nuclear power

New Delhi : As the generation cost for nuclear power plants — to be set up with the help of French and American companies — is turning out to be on the higher side, the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) is in a fix. While it is involved in hard …

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