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 on Tuesday pledged to overhaul regulation of nuclear power, saying that lax standards and poor oversight had contributed to the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl in 1986. Japanese officials from embattled Prime Minister Naoto Kan on down have been widely criticized for their handling of the nuclear disaster, triggered …
India and Pakistan are stockpiling nuclear weapons at a rapid pace, with the two nations adding an almost identical 20 to 30 warheads in the last one year, a leading Swedish think tank said on Tuesday. In its yearbook for 2011, the Stockholm International Peace Research Insitute (SIPRI) also pointed …
Emphasising the need for adequate compensation for farmers whose land is acquired for development projects, BJP leaders on Tuesday addressed a gathering on the requirement for coming up with alternative methods to grant benefits to the agriculturists. Seeking suggestions on alternate methods of compensating farmers, Arun Jaitley Leader of Opposition …
Electricity generation is important for powering economic growth. However, climate change alters disaster risks for electricity generateon and these considerations have often been overlooked in energy research and policy. This paper aims to explore the links between changing disasters risks due to climate change and their impacts on electricity generation. …
Germany's planned exit from nuclear power received backing from the cabinet on Monday, the economy and environment ministers said in Berlin. The far-reaching energy strategy, spurred by the crisis in Japan, reverses longer life cycles granted to nuclear power stations only last autumn. It will entail changes to power grid …
Whereas the whole world is extending its sympathy and support to the people in Japan who are devastated from the recent earth quake, the consequent Tsunami and nuclear emergency, there are also many lessons for poor countries like India with dense population. A crucial lesson has been the folly of …
Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling coalition is expected on Sunday to formulate a timetable for closing Germany's nuclear power plants and a plan for replacing their output. Merkel in March backtracked on an unpopular decision just months earlier to extend the life of aging nuclear stations in Germany, where the majority …
GERMAN tree-huggers have always hated nuclear power. The accident at an earthquake-stricken Japanese nuclear plant in March added to Germany’s nukeophobia. The government ordered a three-month moratorium for the nation’s seven oldest nuclear plants while two commissions, one on safety, the other on “ethics”, reviewed the nation’s nuclear future. One …
The Swiss government decided Wednesday to abandon plans to build new nuclear reactors, while European Union regulators agreed on a framework for stress-testing theirs, as repercussions from the disaster in Japan continue to ripple across Europe. A nuclear plant in Leibstadt, Switzerland. The country will phase out nuclear energy slowly. …
The Swiss government decided on Wednesday to phase out nuclear power by 2034 after the Japan disaster shook public confidence in the industry, but said it will not shut any existing power plants prematurely. The Swiss government suspended the approvals process for three new nuclear power stations in March pending …
Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan is expected to announce a drive toward renewable energy, including slashing the cost of solar power, when he meets fellow leaders of the G8 rich nations group later this week, media reports say. One target will be to increase the use of solar power 15-fold …
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday backed proposals to shut down all of the country's 17 nuclear power plants within about a decade. Speaking at a meeting of the Christian Social Union (CSU), Bavarian sister party to her conservatives, Merkel said a 2022 date proposed by the CSU was appropriate …
To dispel fears of villagers opposed to the nuclear power project in Jaitapur, the Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) will distribute a comic book that will also focus on the benefits they would reap from nuclear energy. The comic, Ek Tha Budhiya: Kahani Ek Khushal Gaon Ki (The Story …
The European Union will likely reach a deal on the shape of stress tests for the bloc's 143 nuclear reactors in the next few days, European Union Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger said on Thursday. The European Nuclear Safety Regulators Group, ENSREG, and the EU's executive Commission came close to a …
Japanese electronics manufacturer Toshiba Corp said on Thursday it will buy unlisted Swiss-based meter maker Landis+Gyr in a deal valued at $2.3 billion, including debt, in a bid to move into the promising overseas smart grid market. The deal, which had been well flagged to the market, comes as Toshiba's …
