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Agitators demand withdrawal of police force from Idinthakarai Condemning the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board’s nod for fuel loading in the first reactor of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project, fishermen of coastal hamlets in the district formed human chain on the beach on Saturday. In the agitation held at Uvari, Koothenkuzhi, Idinthakarai, …
The State government is committed to allaying fear of people around Kundankulam before commissioning the nuclear power plant, said R.Vaithilingam, Minister for Housing and Urban Development, here on Sunday. At the inauguration of a government exhibition here Mr.Vaithilingam said Chief Minister Jayalalithaa had allotted Rs.500 crore for taking up welfare …
Chandigarh: At a time when the nuclear plants in Kudankulam and Jaitapur are facing protests, the Gorakhpur Atomic Power Project, Haryana, in Fatehabad district has crossed its first hurdle without any use of force or violence. Of the 1,503 acres of land acquired for the project in the three villages …
Soon, “significant events” taking place during construction and commissioning of a nuclear plant will also have to be reported to Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB). The board is devising a system similar to one in place for operating plants, which are required to promptly report to it events that impact …
We are appalled at the police repression unleashed on the people protesting peacefully against the Koodankulam nuclear plant. The repression has forced them to take to a jal satyagraha. (Letters)
Of 17 recommendations of AERB, only six have been complied with, he says The safety measures recommended by the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) are crucial and the Kudankulam nuclear power plant should not be allowed to be commissioned without implementing these measures, argued counsel Prashant Bhushan in the Supreme …
Even as protests continue at Kudankulam, sources here said the Government had for the first time agreed to allow an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team to conduct safety review of two atomic power plants located in Rajasthan. “Public confidence has to be built by transparency. We are getting legislation …
In fresh protests, the Peoples Movement Against Nuclear Energy agitating against the Koodankulam nuclear plant, plans to lay siege to the Thoothukudy port Saturday. Fishing villages from Kanyakumari to Rameshwaram will send 10 boats each for the seaport blockade. Women and children will form human chains along the coast in …
As questions continue to be raised about the independence and effectiveness of the regulatory structure for atomic energy, India will soon ask the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for a peer review of its regulatory system with a special focus on its ability to ensure safety of nuclear power plants. …
KOLKATA, 19 SEPT: Protests against the nuclear plant at Koodankulam in Tamil Nadu have reached Kolkata, with health and environment experts speaking out against India's development of nuclear energy. The Forum for People's Health held a protest at College Square yesterday, attended by around 150 people, calling for the opening …
S P Udayakumar, coordinator of the People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE), who had gone underground on September 11, resurfaced in Koothankuli village in Tamil Nadu today and addressed the media where he declared the people of Idinthakarai would lay siege to the nuclear power plant in Kudankulam. Udayakumar, who …
New Delhi, 18 Sept: A team of global nuclear watchdog IAEA will visit Rajasthan in November to conduct an in-depth operational safety review of two atomic power plants there, the first such exercise post-Fukushima nuclear disaster in India. The review by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team, amid growing …
Farmers in Gorakhpur village, protesting against the acquisition of land for a nuclear plant to be set up in the area, have constituted the Parmanoo Sanyantra Virodhi Morcha (Nuclear Plant Protest Front) to carry forward their agitation. This comes in the wake of the Kisan Sangharsh Samiti — a body …
Days after the Supreme Court was moved for disbanding the controversial Koodankulam nuclear power project, a new plea was filed in the top court on Monday seeking direction that the Russian company involved in setting up of the plant in Tamil Nadu pay damages in the event of an accident. …
Chandigarh: The Kisan Sangharsh Samiti, a group of farmers spearheading protests against the setting up of a nuclear power plant at Gorakhpur village in Fatehabad district of Haryana, on Monday withdrew its two-year old agitation. The KSS president Hans Raj Siwach called off the agitation today in the presence of …
Petition says plant should be governed by principle of ‘absolute liability, polluter pays’ A fresh writ petition has been filed in the Supreme Court, contending that the Kudankulam nuclear power plant could not be commissioned without resolving the issue of Russia’s liability in case of an accident. The public interest …
TPDK, VHP members stage demonstrations The Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) will help improve power supply in Tamil Nadu, Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office, Personnel, Public Grievances, and Pensions, V. Narayanasamy, said here on Monday. Inaugurating a conference organised by the Southern India Mills Association, he said …
The Kerala-Kudankulam march led by writers and social activists on Sunday to express solidarity with the anti-nuclear protests in Kudankulam was blocked by the police near the Kerala-Tamil Nadu border at Inchivila. Kerala Anti-Nuclear Support Group, which organised the march, then tried to bus the activists to the protest site. …
Even as Peoples Movement Against Nuclear Energy, which is spearheading the protest here, offered unconditional talks with the Central and state governments, around 250 people were arrested on Sunday in Tuticorin after being stopped from heading towards agitators here who, in a fresh form of protest against loading of fuel …
Hundreds of anti-nuclear protesters forming a human chain stood in sea waters for the second day today demanding halting of preparations for fuel loading into the Kudankulam nuclear reactor. “Women and men will stand in the sea waters for two hours in turns,” Pushparayan, leader of the Peoples Movement Against …
