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As protestors in Ratnagiri are being lathi-charged for opposing the idea of a nuclear power plant at Jaitapur, down south in Kudankulam, the villagers are stoically eyeing an uneasy future. A few weeks from now, this Tamil Nadu village will witness the commissioning of perhaps the first nuclear plant in …
Tokyo/Fukushima, Japan may for the first time designate as "off-limits" the 20-km evacuation zone around the tsunami damaged Fukushima nuclear plant, amid concerns over radiation risks to residents who have been returning temporarily to collect their belongings. Premier Naoto Kan, who is to visit Fukushima prefecture where the crippled plant …
Status update at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and radiation monitoring data in India – 21-April-2011. http://www.dae.gov.in/daiichi/japan210411.pdf
Police caned protesters and imposed an indefinite curfew in Ratnagiri town in the Konkan region of Maharashtra as tension mounted Tuesday, a day after a local fisherman who was part of a mob rioting against the nuclear power project in Jaitapur, was shot dead by police. Tabrez Tehekar of Nate …
The protests over a nuclear power plant in Jaitapur, which claimed one life yesterday and erupted in street clashes and stone-throwing today, appears to be driven by a local political impulse
Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) on Tuesday said its consortium with Alstom had won a Rs.1,600-crore contract for steam turbine generators for the Kakrapar nuclear power station in Gujarat from Nuclear Power Corporation of India.
A day after one person was killed in police firing during a protest against the proposed nuclear plant in Jaitapur, Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said his Ministry could not be blamed for the incident. He accused the Shiv Sena of politicising the issue.
Post mortem after prolonged row; stone throwing during Shiv Sena bandh Curfew has been imposed in the city following violent protests and stone throwing outside the Ratnagiri civil hospital during a bandh called by the Shiv Sena on Tuesday. The death of Tabrez Sayekar of Nate in Monday's police firing …
ParisIn the inbox of Petr Zavodsky, director of nuclear power plant construction at Czech power group CEZ are three sets of proposals from American, French and Russian consortiums, all angling for a $30-billion contract to build five new reactors. State-owned CEZ, central Europe
Workers at a quake-hit nuclear plant in Japan on Tuesday began removing highly radioactive water from a reactor turbine building, a key step towards restoring cooling systems, the government said. The magnitude 9 earthquake and tsunami that hit the northeast coast of Japan on March 11 knocked out power systems …
Expressing con cern over the ongoing antinuclear power project agitation in Jaitapur, Maharashtra, the main Opposition BJP on Tuesday said the issue has definitely triggered a debate. However, the Congress suggested that there could be a conspiracy behind the agitation, cautioning people against
Power equipment maker Bharat Heavy Electricals (BHEL) today said its consortium with Alstom has won an Rs 1,600 crore contract for steam turbine generators for the Kakrapur Nuclear Power Station in Gujarat.
Land acquisition is becoming a hindrance to the setting up of nuclear power plants. Even as the country has set a target of generating 20,000 MW of nuclear power by 2020, glitches in the acquisition of land could delay the commissioning of some projects. Officials in the Nuclear Power Corporation …
Kitlana in Bhiwani or Balsamand in Hisar likely site Haryana is betting high on nuclear power. Determined to become self-sufficient in power, the state is now vying with the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) to set up a second nuclear power plant at either Bhiwani or Hisar. Officials …
Maharashtra Home Minister R.R. Patil said on Monday that the situation was tense in Jaitapur after Minister of State for Environment Jairam Ramesh's statement that there was no going back on the proposed nuclear project. One person was killed in police firing and several were injured as the protest against …
A man was killed in police firing in Jaitapur, as protests against the proposed nuclear plant turned violent with agitators setting ablaze a police station. The protests took place close on the heels of Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh
As part of the exercise undertaken by the government to ensure world class nuclear safety standards in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the four groups constituted by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will quantify to what level India can handle a major crisis beyond the design capacity of nuclear …
