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 …
Australia’s uranium supply to India will be demand based once the approvals for the yellow cake exports to New Delhi are finalised, the Energy Minister Mr Martin Ferguson has said. “It (uranium supply) will be demand based. The supply once approved for exports will be of a commercial nature between …
North Korea has resumed construction work on an experimental light water reactor (ELWR) in a move that could extend its capacity to produce more material for nuclear weapons, website 38North reported on Thursday. Based on April 30 satellite images, work halted in December at the reactor had now re-started, said …
Assures house there will be no compromise on safety of atomic plants Strongly favouring nuclear power, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said there would be no compromise on safety of atomic plants and it would be harmful to close the additional source of energy. "It would be harmful for the …
A.P. Shah surprised that State Human Rights Commission has not intervened A jury that presided over a public hearing on the alleged State suppression of democratic rights on the Kudankulam issue here on Monday will petition the National Human Rights Commission against the foisting of “omnibus FIRs” accusing thousands of …
Tokyo: The assembly in a western Japanese town that hosts a nuclear plant agreed on Monday it was necessary to restart two off-line reactors, its chairman said, the first such nod since all the country’s stations were halted after Fukushima crisis. With power shortages looming in the region when demand …
Organisation calls for promoting renewable energy as substitute for atomic power The Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad (KSSP) has urged the State government to turn down the State's share of power from the Kudankulam atomic power plant. A resolution adopted at the 49th State conference of KSSP called on the State …
Microsoft on Tuesday vowed it would be carbon neutral in the fiscal year starting July. The plan to zero-out the overall amount of climate-changing gas spewed while running data centers, software labs, and offices and even during work-related travel included charging departments a fee for carbon produced. "The goal is …
Scientists from 15 countries are calling for a better political response to the provision of water and energy to meet the challenge of feeding a world of 9 billion people within 30 years. The joint statement by some of the world's leading science academies was issued on Thursday ahead of …
While its Latin American neighbors move forward with national climate laws, Argentina is backsliding on actions to tackle its greenhouse gas emissions as the country struggles to meet energy demand from a fast-growing middle class. Argentina's GDP grew 7.3 percent last year, driving demand for energy that is overwhelmingly derived …
A public interest litigation petition has been filed in the Madras High Court seeking a direction to the Centre to allot the entire 2000 MW to be generated by the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project to Tamil Nadu. A Vacation Bench comprising Justices C.S. Karnan and K. Ravichandra Baabu before whom …
The government has decided to allocate Rs 32 billion for two nuclear power plants ie Chashma three and Chashma four in Public Sector Development Program (PSDP) 2012-13. The projects are in progress with Chinese assistance. The government has also decided to conduct survey and feasibility studies of six additional nuclear …
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government has started moves to establish a Directorate of Radiation Safety to regulate the functioning of medical diagnostic radiology facilities like X-ray units mushrooming in cities and towns. The directorate would take over the responsibility of monitoring the radiology facilities from the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB), …
Europe's economic slump is allowing utilities in some countries to burn increasing amounts of cheap, highly polluting coal for electricity generation and still meet legally binding targets to cut carbon dioxide emissions, Reuters research shows. The EU's carbon scheme, its main tool to fight global warming, caps CO2 emissions on …
The chairman of the environment agency for England and Wales voiced support for shale gas extraction - which critics say can pollute ground water and cause earth tremors - and he backed government plans to expand nuclear power generation. Shale gas is extracted using a technology called hydraulic fracturing or …
Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh saying that Kerala deserves an allocation of 500 MW of power from the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP), the 1,000-MW first reactor of which is due for commissioning soon. Mr. Chandy wrote the letter last week in the context …
Japan began a recess from nuclear-generated electricity, its first in more than four decades, after its sole operating power reactor was halted for scheduled maintenance last night. Hokkaido Electric Power Co's Tomari No 3 reactor in northern Japan stopped generating electricity yesterday, and fission ceased this morning, said Satoshi Takada, …
Maverlikkara (Kerala) Lok Sabha Member Kodikkunnil Suresh has sought allocation of 226 MW of power, which is Kerala's share, from the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KKNPP), whose first unit of 1000 MW will be commissioned in the next few days. Raising the issue during the zero hour in the House …
Thousands of Japanese marched to celebrate the switching off of the last of their nation’s 50 nuclear reactors on Saturday, waving banners shaped as giant fish that have become a potent anti-nuclear symbol. Japan will be without electricity from nuclear power for the first time in four decades when the …
Barring an unexpected turnaround, Japan this weekend will become a nuclear-free nation for the first time in more than four decades, at least temporarily. Japan’s leaders have made increasingly desperate attempts in recent months to avoid just such a scenario, trying to restart plants shut for routine maintenance and kept …
Even as the protest against the commissioning of the nuclear power project at Koodankulam was revived by the local people on Tuesday, the plant is set to have a new chief, a senior engineer who grew up in the same district. R S Sundar, presently the station director of units …
