Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
The day after a giant tsunami set off the continuing disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, thousands of residents at the nearby town of Namie gathered to evacuate. Given no guidance from Tokyo, town officials led the residents north, believing that winter winds would be blowing south and carrying …
Japan's nuclear crisis minister unveiled a plan on Friday to form a more independent nuclear safety regulator by next April in an effort to restore faith in the country's ability to effectively police utility firms after the Fukushima crisis. The watchdog will be separated from the trade ministry, which promotes …
A Bill being prepared to revamp regulation of the nuclear energy sector is expected to propose an independent body, in place of the existing Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB). It envisages the proposed Nuclear Regulatory Authority of India would have full power to stop construction work and also order a …
The Centre plans to amend the Atomic Energy Act to acquire land in and around the world’s biggest nuclear plant in the works at Jaitapur, where protests have stalled the land acquisition process. The proposed draft has a new Section 2, in Clause 19, that would allow the Centre to …
LUCKNOW: City youth on Saturday took out a campaign to promote the use of indigenous energy resources such as coal, gas, solar, wind energy, biogas, and ensuring future energy supplies from Iran and other countries of West and Central Asia. The campaign, titled 'Lessons from Japan 2011', was taken out …
New Delhi: A nuclear safety review has concluded that Indian nuclear plants will be able to withstand “extreme natural events” like tsunamis, cyclones, floods and dam breaks. The government informed Parliament that after the Fukushima disaster in Japan, Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) had set up six taskforces …
Kakrapar Atomic Power Station (KAPS) in Tapi district of Gujarat has come under the scanner of regulator Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) for a “minor incident” of radiation exposure to four workers in May this year. “Our medical staff had checked them and there was no problem with them as …
The level of radiation that four workers were exposed to at the Kakrapar Atomic Power Station-2 or KAPS unit 2 in Gujarat is not significant enough to cause any harm to their health, the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) has said. On May 30, KAPS-2 was operating normal …
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 …
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, …
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 …
While giving state governments the flexibility to acquire land either in full or in part for private companies for public purpose, the draft National Land Acquisition and Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2011, plans to make “consent” of 80 per cent of the families for acquisition mandatory. Unveiled by the Rural …
TokyoJapan’s Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant ranked as one of the most dangerous in the world for radiation exposure years before it was destroyed by the meltdowns and explosions that followed the March 11 earthquake. For five years to 2008, the Fukushima plant was rated the most hazardous nuclear facility in …
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 …
In a span of nine months, all nuclear power plants in India will have provision of automatic reactor shutdown on sensing seismic activity or an earthquake. This is part of the roadmap for implementing recommendations made by the taskforces set up by the Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL). The …
New York environmental regulators finalized rules to reduce cooling water intake by power plants and other industrial facilities to reduce fish kills by 90 percent. But this rule is about more than just fish and water. It could lead to the shutdown of the giant Indian Point and threaten the …
