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 …
during all of the cruise, the project scientists have been busy planning what they will investigate when the probe gets near Saturn. Their plans go into action about six months before the spacecraft's arrival at Saturn. And 19 days before arrival, a flyby past Saturn's most distant satellite, Phoebe, is …
a new regulation that limits access to information about many nuclear sites in Russia may frustrate the efforts of environmentalists to find out about nuclear pollution in the Russian Arctic. The new regulation, which is a set of amendments to the 1993 State Secrets law, says that any nuclear installation …
RUSSIA will cut its vast stockpiles of enriched uranium and plutonium and convert three plutonium-producing military reactors to civilian use by the year 2000. The Russian President, Boris Yeltsin, in a letter to the International Atomic Energy Agency, promised to remove 50 tonnes of plutonium and 500 tonnes of highly …
ACCORDING to a study published by the Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis (IDSA), New Delhi, India will have the capacity to produce up to 50 nuclear weapons by the year 2000. The study says that going at the present rate of plutonium (which is a fuel used in producing …
RESIDENTS of Okinawa prefecture are facing the worst ever consequences of us military presence in the region. After holding back the truth for months, US and Japanese officials have revealed that a US plane had 'mistakenly' fired 1,520 bullets, each containing 147.7 gm of uranium, from December 1995 through January …
innumerable cracks and holes that have appeared on the sarcophagus, that is meant to stop radioactivity leaking from the damaged nuclear reactor at Chernobyl in Ukraine, can now be plugged. Eurotech, a company based in La Jolla, California, has been given the green signal by the Ukranian government to start …
The cat is out of the bag, finally. The suspicions that had lurked all these years about the safety standards of India's nuclear power plants, have been substantiated by the atomic energy regulatory board (AERB). All is not well with our nuclear installations according to A Gopalakrishnan, whose three-year tenure …
AFTER seven years of protracted negotiations Ukraine has signed an agreement in Ottawa with the G-7 countries (Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the US and Canada) and the European Commission on the closure of the Chernobyl nuclear power station. The agreement was signed in Ottawa by the Ukrainian economics minister …
DOES "Ghivali" sound familiar any longer? Hardly? The tragic truth is that people are already starting to forget that this semi-pucca village, sitting rather uneasily just 1.23 km from the barely-year-old-but-already cranky nuclear waste immobilisation plant at Tarapur, had only recently seen 30 cattleheads die due to a nuclear leak. …
THE controversy surrounding the leak of radioactive water, the principle component of which is isotopes of the poisonous cesium-137, from the waste immobilisation plant of the 320 mw Tarapur Atomic Power Station at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (barc), may add another shameful chapter in the history of Indian nuclear …
THE chairperson of the Atomic Energy Regulation Board (AERB), A Gopalakrishnan, has urged the media and public to take a sensible view of the accidental leak of radioactive waste from the Waste Immobilisation Plant (WIP) of the Tarapur Atomic Power Plant (TAPS) and "not to blow up the incident to …
THE proposed Mochovce nuclear power project in Slovakia has created much heat in Europe. A chain reaction of protests has been set off and the whole project has got entangled in a complicated maze of arguments and counter-arguments. Neighbouring Austria and environmental groups like the Greenpeace had already let off …
FOLLOWING the detection of organised smuggling of semi-processed uranium in Meghalaya, the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) has directed the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) to review security arrangements in all nuclear installations in India. The alarm bells were sounded after 2.5 kg of semi-processed uranium were recovered in mid-October …
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"India's nuclear programme today is a dangerous failure." That was the opinion that emerged during Sixty Minutes, a programme telecast by the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) of USA in February. "The truth of the failure of the programme has been hidden from the people," said Dhirendra Sharma, convener of the …
The administrators of India's nuclear establishments have always maintained that safety standards in their plants are stringent and strictly observed and do not require evaluations by external agencies. Participants at a symposium on Advances in Structural Dynamics, organised in December by the department of civil engineering, were thus pleasantly surprised …
CLAIMING that the Chernobyl nuclear power plant had become one of the safest in the world because of the safety measures that have been introduced since the 1986 explosion, Ukraine energy minister Vilen Semenyuk has urged the parliament to reverse its decision to shut down the reactor, which has been …
When the turbine generator unit of the Narora atomic power plant caught fire on March 31, the department of atomic energy was quick to boast about the efficient working of the plant's indigenously-developed safety systems. The 220-mw plant in Uttar Pradesh is equipped with two safety systems; one shuts down …
A US $700 million "nuclear safety account" to reduce the risk of accidents in east Europe - agreed in principle last July - has finally been approved by specialists from the Group of Seven industrialised nations. At least 32 reactors are deemed sufficiently safe for upgrading; 26 are excluded as …
