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. …
This supplemental environmental impact statement (SEIS) has been prepared in response to an application submitted by Dominion Energy Kewaunee, Inc. (DEK) to renew the operating license for Kewaunee Power Station (KPS) for an additional 20 years.
THE preliminary work on the nuclear power plant in Gujarat’s Bhavnagar district has started amid protests. Government officials who visited the site in Jasapara village on June 11 to collect soil samples were gheraoed for over six hours by angry people. The soil samples were to be collected for laboratory …
Alok Deshpande / DNA Mumbai: People affected by the proposed 9,000MW nuclear power plant at Jaitapur in Ratnagiri have decided to continue their protests against the project. They have refused to accept compensation offered for their land, even if it was at the prevailing market rate. State
New Delhi: Four new nuclear power plants proposed by Nuclear Power Corporation of India have run into trouble with the environment and forests ministry rejecting their initial applications for statutory environmental clearances. NPCIL has proposed four power plants, one each at Fatehabad in Haryana (2,800mw), Mandla in Madhya Pradesh (1,400mw), …
MORE trouble appears to be brewing for the Indo-US nuclear liability bill with the Left planning to reach out to non-Congress members in the parliamentary panel to seek fundamental changes in the legislation. The Left is pinning its hopes on the anti-Bill sentiments within the Parliament
There is progressive improvement in uranium fuel position for operating indigenous Pressurised Heavy Water Reactors (PHWRs) with gradual increasing in production from indigenous uranium mills besides the imported fuel, department of Atomic Energy sources said.
AMIDST increasing resistance from Trinamool Congress activists, West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has urged the Centre to take a stronger stand if the mega Haripur nuke power venture in the state is to see the light of day. This was communicated to the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) chairman and …
Luck plays in strange ways. I was reaching for my scooter when the telephone rang in my office-cum-residence in Bhopal. I opened the gate, unlocked the door downstairs, ran up the steps to the first floor and opened the door to my apartment. Normally the caller would have given up, …
The group of ministers (GoM) has not made it clear whether Dow Chemicals, the company that acquired UCC in 2001, is to be held liable for the threat to public safety as a result of the toxic waste the pesticide factory dumped on its premises. It has only said the …
Experts say Govt underplaying dangers of an accident. Nuclear power is expensive and perilous and India does not need it, said Dr Surendra Gadekar, nuclear scientist. The Union Government should give up plans to set up 15 nuclear power plants, including one at Kovvada in Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh, …
In this paper, the contamination level of fourteen elements (Al, Ca, Mg, V, Ti, Na, Mn, As, Br, La, Sm, Sc, U, Yb) from different soil samples of the nuclear reactor surrounding areas in Savar, Bangladesh was investigated with instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA) method. Generally, neutron activation is most …
The present status of nuclear energy technology is the result of over 50 years of development and operational experience. The latest designs for nuclear power plants, now under construction, incorporate lessons learned from this experience as well as recent technological developments to offer enhanced safety and performance. Nuclear power is …
India's relations with Canada yesterday turned a full circle- from one of suspicion and unease to a strategic partnership. Canada, which had led India's nuclear isolation in the mid-1970s and late 1990s, is now the ninth nation with which New Delhi has a peacetime atomic energy pact, opening the doors …
FRENCH industrial engineering major Alstom will formalise its tripartite joint venture agreement with state-owned Bhel and Nuclear Power Corporation over the next few months to help it tap about 45,000 mw of nuclear power, expected to come up in India over the next 10-15 years. The company has already entered …
UNDER intense pressure from the Opposition, the government has been forced to withdraw the amendment to the Civil Nuclear Liability Bill that would have made it impossible for the nuclear plant operators, in India
