Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Akhilesh Kumar Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 23/05/2025. The matter related to illegal mining activites carried out by Jai Maa Chandrika Enterprises, Rajendra Nagar, village Kabari, district Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh. The applicant also alleged about illegal sale …
In the nuclear industry, memories can be distressingly short. In 1976, the UK Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution declared that it would be "morally wrong" to make a major commitment to nuclear power without demonstrating a way of safely isolating radioactive waste. Yet the UK is about to embark on …
The 123 nuclear agreement between India and the us draws its name from an article of the us Atomic Energy Act. It is somewhat coincidental that three reasons are also being listed to justify the deal, or to debunk it. Supporters and critics have hitched their arguments to the deal's …
For the global nuclear industry, climate change seems to be a blessing. The industry, which was in deep recession after Chernobyl in 1986, hopes for a revival because of its low carbon emissions. The industry hopes climate imperatives will override inherent problems pertaining to use and disposal of radioactive fuel. …
Safety breaches caused radiation leak at a major nuclear reprocessing plant in the Ural mountains, the Russian government announced on October 29. The incident happened four days before the announcement. Officials of the local emergencies ministry said a faulty tap in the tank holding liquid radioactive waste caused the leak. …
Nine months ago, India's big power ambitions suffered a setback. The 3,000-km range Agni-3, launched for the first time last July from Wheeler Island off Orissa coast, fell into the Bay of Bengal. The then defence minister Pranab Mukherjee looked at it positively. "Partial success," he called it. "The first …
The centre's decision to set up five new nuclear power projects has caused concern among anti-nuclear activists. They say these projects will feed India's weapons programme. "India's nuclear programme has always been used as a cover for its weapons programme,' says Suren Gadekar, an anti-nuclear activist. Nuclear Power Corporation of …
Southern California residents can take it easy. State health officials have decided to more than triple the number of potassium iodide (ki) pills distributed among communities around the state's two nuclear plants. The decision comes after health experts and residents near the San Onofre and Diablo Canyon nuclear power stations …
mobile phone radiation can cause changes in human cells that might affect the brain, indicates a study conducted by Finland's radiation and nuclear safety authority. According to the study, exposure to radiation from mobile phones can cause increased activity in hundreds of proteins in human cells. The researchers focused on …
in a recent report, the parliamentary standing committee on energy has observed that stringent environmental regulations hinder the progress of projects conducted by the Union government's Department of Atomic Energy (dae). The report has also emphasised the need to promote nuclear energy. Critical of strict environmental regulations, the committee reports …
A lawsuit filed by residents demanding the permanent closure of Japan's only fast-breeder nuclear reactor was rejected by a court in the Fukui Prefecture, situated 350 km west of Tokyo, Japan. Designed to produce more nuclear fuel than it consumes, the reactor has been closed since December 1995 after the …
the mayor of Tokai prefecture Tatsuya Murakami has alleged that the nuclear accident that occurred on September 30 was caused and later mishandled by the central government. The government's confidence concerning nuclear safety has been shattered as it has failed to build up adequate emergency measures, he added. In one …
Metal fatigue was apparently responsible for last month's nuclear plant accident in Japan's Fukui Prefecture. According to a recent announcement by the plant operator, a massive amount of radioactive coolant water had leaked from a cracked reactor pipe. The ministry of international trade and industry has submitted its report to …
What is the basis of the serious questions raised by you about the safety of nuclear reactors, especially the Russian-made ones to be set up in Tamil Nadu? In 1995, when I started gathering all the status reports, I found recommendations made in 1979, 1987 and 1995 were not being …
The science, technology and environment ministry of Thailand has suspended a nuclear research reactor project at Ongkharak district. Deputy minister Pornthep Techapaiboon said the lack of required safety analysis from an accredited institution, risk assessment analysis and safety measures had prompted him to issue the suspension order. Speaking to a …
greenpeace, the us -based environmental group, released a report showing that the environmental impact assessment ( eia ) on completion of nuclear reactors Khmelnitsky 2 and Rovno 4 in Ukraine. The report states that the reactors do not comply with European Union ( eu ) standards. Both are Soviet designed …
the countdown for Cassini's launch had more than its share of the drama. For the first time in the history of space exploration, people protested against the launch of a spacecraft. Most of them were convinced that using plutonium to fuel the rockets attached to the probe was risky. Cassini …
Although most falling debris is burnt up when it re-enters the atmosphere, there have been costly and potentially dangerous exceptions. On January 24, 1978, a nuclear-powered satellite launched by the erstwhile Soviet Union, Cosmos 954, crashed over northwestern Canada, spilling radioactive debris. The Canadian government presented the USSR with a …
