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 …
Japan will unveil plans as early as this week for a new atomic safety regulator which is expected to lead to tougher safety standards and higher costs for nuclear power operators. The current watchdog's cozy ties with the industry was widely seen as a key contributing factor in Japan's failure …
Japan’s Parliament passed a law on Wednesday that will allow the use of public funds to shore up the company operating the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, and help it pay what is expected to amount to billions of dollars in compensation claims. The law creates a state-backed fund that …
The U.S. government should start using the $25 billion it has collected for dealing with nuclear waste for its intended use rather than hoarding it to reduce the deficit, a bipartisan panel said on Friday. The Nuclear Waste Fund is currently used to "reduce the apparent deficit," the report said. …
Japan's nuclear power plant utilization rate fell to an average 33.9 percent in July, the lowest in at least 32 years, Reuters calculations from trade ministry data showed on Monday, as public worries over safety kept reactors offline after they had completed routine maintenance. The run rate fell further from …
The Cabinet on Monday approved a proposal to sign a cooperation agreement between Bangladesh and Russia to set up the much-talked-about Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant. The approval came from the Cabinet's 121st regular meeting held at the Secretariat with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair. The meeting also approved …
For more than 60 years, anyone standing on France’s D-day landing beaches has been able to stare out to sea and imagine the bloody launch of the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe. So when the French government recently confirmed plans to install an array of towering wind turbines in the …
The cabinet at its weekly meeting yesterday approved a proposal to sign a cooperation agreement with Russia to set up the much talked-about Ruppur Nuclear Power Plant in Pabna. It also approved the draft of the Bangabandhu Poverty Alleviation and Rural Development Academy Act 2011. Briefing reporters after the meeting, …
Japan will strive to avoid a complete shutdown of its 54 nuclear reactors and avert crippling power shortages in the near term while charting plans to reduce the nation's dependence on nuclear power, the government said on Friday. Heightened safety fears since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami triggered meltdowns …
The decommissioning of a nuclear power plant is a largescale organizational and technical process comparable in time, financial and labour resources to the building of the unit. Decommissioning reactors will become a major operation over the next 50 years, with far-reaching implications including an increase in the production of radioactive …
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is approaching completion of an ambitious study that concludes that a meltdown at a typical American reactor would lead to far fewer deaths than previously assumed. The conclusion, to be published in April after six years of work, is based largely on a radical revision of …
The BHEL Bhopal would soon start manufacturing turbines for the nuclear power plants. All the road blocks have been cleared and construction of new block in the BHEL factory premises would commence. Official sources said the BHEL Board, New Delhi has already sanctioned ` 475 crore for the purpose and …
Pakistan fares worst in terms of availability of power in comparison to other South Asian countries, including India which has ensured hundred percent availability for industry and agriculture. According to the latest statistics, India's total installed capacity is 176990.3 MW of which coal power share is 96743.38 MW(54.7 percent), gas …
A lower house committee of Japan's parliament on Tuesday passed a bill to help Tokyo Electric Power pay billions of dollars in compensation to those hurt by the Fukushima nuclear disaster, ensuring a law will soon be in place to guarantee the utility's survival and get aid to victims. The …
A majority of the five-member Nuclear Regulatory Commission is signaling that it wants to move slowly on at least some new recommendations from its staff on how to reduce the chance of a Fukushima-type accident at an American reactor despite calls by its chairman for swift action. Three commissioners are …
The accelerating dash for natural gas risks a bitter backlash as the environmental cost of exploiting new shale deposits and of transporting it in liquid form spoil its credentials as the greenest fossil fuel. Gas was long regarded as a "bridging fuel" for use in relatively easily-to-build, gas-fired power plants, …
Iran has claimed it is installing new high-tech uranium enrichment centrifuges to hasten progress in its nuclear programme, a move that France has condemned as a
Russia offered Germany long-term deals for natural gas and rare earths on Tuesday, putting pressure on China, which currently dominates the rare earths market, to end delays in agreeing to imports of Russian gas. China controls 97 percent of the global supply of rare earth minerals -- used heavily in …
