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Sharad Pawar To send expert panel for effects on fisheries, mangoes. While reiterating his earlier support for the Jaitapur nuclear project in Maharashtra
Japanese officials are readying a new approach o stabilising a reactor at a nuclear plant crippled by an earthquake and tsunami after discovering a leak from he containment vessel of enough radioactive water to fill an Olympic swimming pool. The discovery has forced officials to abandon heir original plan to …
A group of over 25 scientists, bureaucrats and activists released a statement on April 19, demanding transparency in India’s nuclear power programme. The statement was released a day after a clash between policemen and those protesting the proposed nuclear power plant at Jaitapur in Maharashtra. One person was killed and …
Despite repeated assurances that American nuclear plants are better equipped to deal with natural disasters than their counterparts in Japan, regulators said Thursday that recent inspections had found serious problems with some emergency equipment that would have made it unusable in an accident. N.R.C. employees said the agency had insufficiently …
A U.S. task force examining the disaster at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi plant expects to find ways to improve safety at the country's 104 U.S. nuclear plants but has not found any major problems in its first 30 days of work. "To date, the task force has not identified any issues …
In a discussion with students of Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) on Wednesday, union minister for environment and forests Jairam Ramesh revealed that the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) was not happy with the public hearing conducted by the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) for the …
Bill for independent regulatory authority in monsoon session of Parliament The Central government is set to form an independent regulatory authority, which will be responsible for nuclear safety and enforcement of safety standards. A bill to that effect will be introduced in the monsoon session of Parliament this year, Union …
Iran has started the nuclear reaction at its Bushehr power plant, the Russian company that built the reactor said in a statement on Tuesday that indicated Iran is close to wrapping up work on the site that has dragged on for more than three decades. The German company Siemens abandoned …
Lawmakers continue to call for the closure of a nuclear power plant less than 50 miles from New York City, despite the head of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission vouching for the plant's safety on a tour on Tuesday. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko was unable to allay long-held …
Japanese power firm Chubu Electric on Monday agreed to shut a nuclear plant until it can be better defended against the type of massive tsunami that in March triggered the worst atomic crisis in 25 years. The temporary shutdown of Hamaoka, which supplies power to central Japan -- home to …
Electricity wholesaler Japan Atomic Power said on Monday that gas containing a minute amount of radiation had leaked from its Tsuruga nuclear plant in western Japan the previous day, but that the amount was well below the legal limit and there was no impact on the environment. The amount of …
A Japanese nuclear power plant has decided to halt its operations in a potentially unstable seismic zone. The Chubu Electric Power Company (CEPC) made the critical decision on Monday following Prime Minister Naoto Kan's intervention late last week. Mr. Kan had cited a scientific forecast about the
The All India Power Engineers' Federation (AIPEF) and the National Confederation of Officers' Associations of Central Public Sector Undertakings (NCOA) have come out strongly against the proposed Jaitapur nuclear power plant. Terming it a
A new compensation package totalling over Rs450 crore for people affected by the Jaitapur nuclear power project is expected to be announced soon. The package, put together by the Maharashtra government and the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited, betters the initial Rs 15 crore compensation offered by the state …
