Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Hussain Ahamad Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 05/01/2024. In the application, the allegation was in respect of illegal mining of earth from the nearby agricultural field by brick kilns in an area in Muzaffarnagar district. Pits were …
The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2012 provides a global overview of current status of nuclear power and also compares development pattern of renewable energy with the nuclear power. Twenty years after its first edition, World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2012 portrays an industry suffering from the cumulative impacts of …
Shouting antinuclear slogans and beating drums, tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered in front of the Japanese prime minister’s residence on Friday in the largest display yet of public anger at the government’s decision to restart a nuclear power plant. Protesters shouted, "No to restart!" as they held up banners …
The Sri Lankan government has taken measures to set up an early warning system in the country to detect a nuclear disaster in the event of a nuclear accident. Following India's decision to expand the Kudankulam nuclear plant on the South Indian coast, the Sri Lankan government has expressed concerns …
TEPCO, the operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, said Wednesday record amounts of radiation had been detected in the basement of reactor number 1, further hampering clean-up operations. TEPCO took samples from the basement after lowering a camera and surveying instruments through a drain hole in the basement ceiling. …
Japan ordered nuclear reactors back online Saturday, defying public sentiment against atomic power following last year's meltdowns at Fukushima sparked by the quake-tsunami, reports said. Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, seeking to head off a summer energy crunch, told Kansai Electric Power (KEPCO) to re-fire two idled reactors at its Oi …
The ruling Democratic Party of Japan and the two largest opposition parties reached a final agreement Thursday on a bill to set up new bodies that will be in charge of the nation's nuclear safety administration, replacing the existing Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency. The DPJ, the Liberal Democratic Party …
Chennai, 12 June: Asserting that the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP) belonged to the “highest safety category” of plants currently in operation in the world, the Centre today sought dismissal of petitions in Madras High Court against the Rs 14,000 crore Indo-Russian project. In a joint counter-affidavit to a batch …
Says it is well protected from tsunami or other natural disasters The Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project is well protected from tsunami or other natural disasters, the Centre submitted before the Madras High Court on Tuesday. It made the submission while the First Bench of Chief Justice M.Y. Eqbal and Justice …
The majority of planned nuclear power closures globally are forecast to take place in Europe, with 150 plants in line for closure by 2030. That's the conclusion of a new report by energy intelligence provider GlobalData, which revealed that Europe accounts for 69% of the 200 closures globally. In contrast, …
It’s official: nuclear power will have a much smaller role in Japan’s energy future than was once thought. Since the meltdowns and gas explosions at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station in March 2011, all of Japan’s remaining reactors have been shut down for inspections and maintenance.
Sri Lankan authorities are taking measures to establish a warning system to alert to a possible radiation leak from the nuclear plants in the Tamil Nadu state of neighboring India. Sri Lanka's Atomic Energy Authority (AEA) is setting up eight early warning detectors along the coastal areas to detect a …
Hundreds of Japanese anti-nuclear protesters gathered outside the prime minister’s office on Friday, beating drums and chanting slogans against the planned restart of reactors a year after the world’s worst nuclear disaster in 25 years. “We oppose restarts,” the crowd of about 1,000, which stretched for around 200 meters down …
Bluefin tuna contaminated with radiation believed to be from Fukushima Daiichi turned up off the coast of California just five months after the Japanese nuclear plant suffered meltdown last March, US scientists said. Tiny amounts of caesium-137 and caesium-134 were detected in 15 bluefin caught near San Diego in August …
TOKYO, 28 MAY: Mr Naoto Kan, Japan's Prime Minister at the time of the Fukushima nuclear crisis, apologised today and said the government and its push for nuclear energy bore most of the responsibility for the disaster. “The nuclear accident was caused by a nuclear plant which operated as national …
What passes for normal at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant today would have caused shudders among even the most sanguine of experts before an earthquake and tsunami set off the world's second most serious nuclear crisis after Chernobyl. Fourteen months after the accident, a pool brimming with used fuel rods …
The government on Sunday introduced a bill in parliament to realise compensation from operators in case of accidents at nuclear plants. The bill assumes significance as the government is planning to set up two atomic power stations with Russian assistance. ‘The operators have to take the responsibility of accidents at …
The radiation released in the first days of the Fukushima nuclear disaster was almost 2-1/2 times the amount first estimated by Japanese safety regulators, the operator of the crippled plant said in a report released on Thursday. Tokyo Electric Power said its own analysis conducted over the past year put …
Nearly three-quarters of Japanese companies support abandoning nuclear power after last year's Fukushima disaster, although a majority set the condition that alternative energy resources must be secured, a Reuters poll showed on Friday. The poll offers fresh evidence of the deep public distrust of nuclear power, the role of which …
Spikes in radiation caused by the Fukushima nuclear disaster were below cancer-causing levels in almost all of Japan, but infants in one town appear to be at a higher risk of developing thyroid cancer, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday. In a preliminary report, independent experts said that people …
Radiation doses received after the Fukushima nuclear accident last year were below international reference levels in all but two locations in Japan and below the level seen as "very small" in neighbouring countries, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday. The preliminary report by independent experts found that, using conservative …
