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 …
After Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's assurance in the Parliament on the safety audit of all atomic plants in the country in the aftermath of Japan's nuclear crisis, multilevel safety measures have been put in place at the Kaiga atomic power plant in Karnataka on the west coast near Karwar in …
A comprehensive package by Down to Earth on the recent Japan nuclear crisis and its implications for India consists of blogs, timeline, maps and other useful resources. It also provides a selection of DTE articles from 19 years of its reportage on nuclear energy, quakes & tsunami alongwith important reports, …
Japan On Brink Of N-Catastrophe As 3rd Reactor Explodes In 3 Days, 3 More On Boil Tokyo: A small crew of technicians braved radiation and fire through the day on Tuesday as they fought to prevent three nuclear reactors in northeastern Japan from melting down and stop storage ponds loaded …
Hyderabad: The Japanese nuclear crisis has triggered fresh fears among people in Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh where protestshave been raging for several months over the proposed 2,000 MW nuclear power plant. Environmentalists, local villagers and opposition parties are up in arms against the nuclear power project at Kovvada on …
Allaying fears in the minds of the public after the recent quake-tsunami-triggered explosion in a couple of nuclear reactors in Japan, Site Director, Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) M. Kasinath Balaji has said the state-of-the-art safety measures in the 1,000 MWe capacity pressurised water reactors of KKNPP had made the …
MUMBAI: Stressing that Indian atomic power plants were constantly upgraded to match current levels of safety requirements and were safe, scientists on Monday said that the events in Japan cannot slow down the country's nuclear energy programme in any way. Indian organisations had already announced they would revisit all safety …
New DelhiAmidst persisting concerns over the safety of nuclear power plants in view of what has happened in tsunami-devastated Japan, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday sought to allay apprehensions on this count and said all nuclear installations in the country would nonetheless go through a review of their safety …
PM orders technical review of plants to check if they can withstand major disasters The Government, which banks on nuclear power to reduce dependence on petroleum, has refrained from backing a call for review of its policy, following the meltdown of two reactors in Japan. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told …
In the backdrop of earthquake and tsunami affecting some of the nuclear power plants in Japan, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh informed the Parliament on Monday that the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) and its agencies have been directed to carry out urgent technical review of all safety systems of nuclear …
As global distaste for fossil fuels grows and climate change becomes a household phrase, nuclear energy has new supporters. The site nuclearfissionary.com is run by one such group. It claims arguments against nuclear energy were solved decades ago and spews venom on anti-nuclear groups like Greenpeace. To be fair, the …
India's top nuclear bodies on Sunday said they would revisit all safety aspects of atomic plants in the country and analyse the nuclear crisis arising in Japan after the tsunami as it had offered new lessons to fine-tune existing emergency preparedness.
Taking the first concrete step on setting up two more China-supplied nuclear reactors in the Chashma nuclear complex, Pakistan has obtained the approval of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) board for the safeguards agreement to cover the two new reactors, Chashma 3 and 4. The approval was obtained in …
Bokaro, March 1: Mineral-rich Jharkhand has both the power and prowess to split an atom, eminent scientist and director of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (Barc) Ratan Kumar Sinha said here today. Buoyed by the handsome 31 per cent increase in the 2011-12 budget allocation for atomic energy, the premier multi-disciplinary …
The Supreme Court today issued notices to the Union Carbide Corporation, Dow Chemicals and others on a Centre's plea seeking increase in compensation to the victims of 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy from Rs 750 crore to Rs 7,700 crore. A five-judge bench headed by Chief Justice S H Kapadia also …
Local project affected boycotted open house in January Villagers affected have not accepted compensation MUMBAI: While Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan prepares for a two-day sojourn in the Konkan from Friday, the Jaitapur nuclear power project affected people have decided not to attend a meeting he will address on February …
