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NPCIL to submit technical details to MoEF before starting work With the first two units of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) coming close to the stage of commissioning, the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) has received the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) clearance for starting work on the …
Shifting the debate over the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant from the nuclear risk perception to the “Emergency-like” suppression of democracy and civil liberties of the local population of Idinthakarai, a panel of civil society activists on Monday urged the governments at the Centre and State to give up their confrontationist …
Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Monday demanded the Union government accord special treatment to Tamil Nadu by absorbing a portion of the cost of the Rs.500-crore special package meant for meeting basic needs of the people residing around the Kundankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KKNPP) site. In her speech at the Union …
Sri Lankan authorities are taking measures to establish a warning system to alert to a possible radiation leak from the nuclear plants in the Tamil Nadu state of neighboring India. Sri Lanka's Atomic Energy Authority (AEA) is setting up eight early warning detectors along the coastal areas to detect a …
Hundreds of Japanese anti-nuclear protesters gathered outside the prime minister’s office on Friday, beating drums and chanting slogans against the planned restart of reactors a year after the world’s worst nuclear disaster in 25 years. “We oppose restarts,” the crowd of about 1,000, which stretched for around 200 meters down …
Read this report of the jury on public hearing on Koodankulum nuclear power project and state suppression of democratic rights, chaired by Justice A P Shah. It is based on the testimonies of persons who participated in the public hearing held in Chennai. This report is based on the testimonies …
Wants consent order for operating plant issued only after this is done A fishermen's welfare organisation has filed a public interest litigation petition in the Madras High Court seeking a direction to the Member-Secretary of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) here to inspect the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project …
The Kudankulam nuclear power project, which is expected to pump in the first unit of electricity into the grid by the end of June, will sell power to the state utilities at around Rs 2.65 a unit, Mr S.K. Jain, Chairman and Managing Director, Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd …
Bluefin tuna contaminated with radiation believed to be from Fukushima Daiichi turned up off the coast of California just five months after the Japanese nuclear plant suffered meltdown last March, US scientists said. Tiny amounts of caesium-137 and caesium-134 were detected in 15 bluefin caught near San Diego in August …
TOKYO, 28 MAY: Mr Naoto Kan, Japan's Prime Minister at the time of the Fukushima nuclear crisis, apologised today and said the government and its push for nuclear energy bore most of the responsibility for the disaster. “The nuclear accident was caused by a nuclear plant which operated as national …
What passes for normal at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant today would have caused shudders among even the most sanguine of experts before an earthquake and tsunami set off the world's second most serious nuclear crisis after Chernobyl. Fourteen months after the accident, a pool brimming with used fuel rods …
The People’s Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) strongly condemns the ongoing repression by the state on the peaceful protest against the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project in Tamil Nadu, particularly since 8 May 2012. It condemns the policy of using tactics of threat and intimidation to crush a democratic movement. (Letters)
The radiation released in the first days of the Fukushima nuclear disaster was almost 2-1/2 times the amount first estimated by Japanese safety regulators, the operator of the crippled plant said in a report released on Thursday. Tokyo Electric Power said its own analysis conducted over the past year put …
Spikes in radiation caused by the Fukushima nuclear disaster were below cancer-causing levels in almost all of Japan, but infants in one town appear to be at a higher risk of developing thyroid cancer, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday. In a preliminary report, independent experts said that people …
Radiation doses received after the Fukushima nuclear accident last year were below international reference levels in all but two locations in Japan and below the level seen as "very small" in neighbouring countries, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday. The preliminary report by independent experts found that, using conservative …
Fears expressed by some people are unfounded, says official Fresh water for ensuring unhindered operation of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) will not be drawn from the Pechipaarai dam or the Tamirabharani, the outgoing Site Director, M. Kasinath Balaji, has said. “Since we've installed two desalination plants to meet …
Anti-nuclear demonstrators gathered on Sunday evening at Dadar’s Chaityabhoomi along with National Award-winning filmmaker Anand Patwardhan, activist Dr Binayak Sen and his wife Ilina, and members of the Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace, Konkan Vinashakari Prakalp Virodhi Samiti, and Konkan Bachao Andolan Priyar Dravidar Kazhagam. They were protesting against …
State-owned Nuclear Power Corporation (NPCIL) expects the much-delayed Koodankulam nuclear project’s first unit to commence commercial operations by August 2012, and the second of the two 1,000 MWe (mega watt electrical) units by March 2013. This is as per the new official commissioning schedules announced for the project, which has …
Britain's ageing nuclear reactors, which were due to close in the next decade, are set to be kept open under a plan approved by the industry's regulator. In a move that could have far-reaching implications for the government's energy policy, the Office for Nuclear Regulation has told the Guardian it …
Mumbai’s Tata Memorial Centre has begun work to set up a community-based cancer registry and carry out health surveys to document the precise occurrence of cancer, birth defects and other illnesses around India’s atomic power plants. The move to study the incidence of the disease comes in the wake of …
