Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Rajaram Vs State of Haryana dated 27/05/2025. By the execution application, the applicant was seeking compliance of the NGT order July 5, 2024 passed in OA No. 735/2024. In the OA, the applicant has raised the grievance in respect of …
Experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency met Japanese officials Monday as part of a mission to assess clean-up efforts at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant. The U.N. atomic agency began the nine-day mission at the request of the Japanese government, as it did in 2011 following a powerful …
Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary want the European Union to support nuclear energy projects and not to over-regulate the area, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Monday after a summit of the "Visegrad Four" countries. The four also threw their backing behind shale gas extraction in Europe, and …
South Korea should reduce its reliance on nuclear power in view of public discontent with corruption in the industry and Japan's difficulty tackling the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster, a group weighing up the problem said on Sunday. The Energy Ministry published the findings of a study group of 60 …
The Czech Republic aims to increase the share of nuclear power in its energy mix even as neighboring Germany plans to shut down all of its atomic plants and prices of European electricity hover close to all-time lows. The country’s new energy strategy categorizes nuclear power as “crucial” for preserving …
The U.K. is “extremely close” to announcing a deal with Electricite de France SA to build Britain’s first nuclear power station since 1995, Energy Secretary Ed Davey said. The agreement may be announced as soon as this week after two or three remaining issues are resolved, said a government official …
It’s not just the US, France and Russia that have a problem with India’s nuclear liability law. The Indian nuclear industry has asked Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) to ensure the law’s provisions do not apply to their supplies for nuclear reactors, marking the first clear domestic opposition to the …
S.P. Udayakumar, who has been coordinating the ongoing protests against the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project, on Thursday said he was prepared to leave the coastal hamlet of Idinthakarai, the epicentre of the two-year-old agitation, to meet the Chief Minister and air his grievances pertaining to the project. “If the police …
Members of People’s Confederation against Nuclear Energy organised a sloganeering protest here on Wednesday against the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project. The protestors said the KKNPP should be scrapped as various developed nations, having understood the dangers involved in nuclear power generation programme, had abandoned it and were switching over to …
Wants conservation reserve for blackbucks on NPCIL colony land Member of Parliament, environmentalist and animal rights activist Maneka Gandhi wants the upcoming nuclear power project at Gorakhpur in Fatehabad to be scrapped. She also wants the 185-odd acres acquired by Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) for its residential …
Bangladesh moved one step ahead towards nuclear power generation as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina unveiled the foundation of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (1st Phase) project here on Wednesday. "It's my belief that the Russian Federation would follow international standards in every stage of Rooppur NPP implementation and also provide Bangladesh …
This 23rd edition of the Survey of Energy Resources published by World Energy Council covers all fossil resources (coal, oil, both conventional and unconventional and gas, both conventional and unconventional), and the main renewable and transitional resources: peat, nuclear and uranium, hydro power, biofuels and waste, wind, solar, geothermal and …
Essential exercise before entering into the final commercial contract Nuclear Power Corp of India Ltd (NPCIL) and Westinghouse Electric of the US have entered into an early contract to carry out a preliminary safety analysis for the proposed plant at Mithi Virdi in Gujarat. The study will focus on safety, …
Five years after India and the US signed a landmark civil nuclear deal, the two countries have clinched the first commercial agreement on civilian nuclear power cooperation that was stalled over India’s nuclear liability law. President Barack Obama announced the agreement on Friday after his meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan …
Concerns on high price remain Following clearance from the Atomic Energy Commission and the Cabinet Committee on Security on Tuesday night, the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd is all set to sign a ‘pre-early works agreement’ for six 1,000 MWe reactors with Westinghouse, official Indian sources said here on …
India and the US are pushing Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) and Westinghouse Electric Company (WEC) to expedite commercial discussions for 30,000 MW of nuclear generation in the public sector in the next 20 years. According to sources, “The two sides are keen that both NPCIL and Westinghouse arrive …
External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid on Thursday said the government will not sign any nuclear contract with the U.S. that was against national interest. Reacting to a report in The Hindu about the Attorney General’s recent opinion that Indian nuclear operators could waive their right of recourse against a foreign …
The government's effort to find an honourable way around the constraint of the nuclear liability law without actually violating it ran into rough weather on Thursday with the opposition accusing it of seeking to dilute the law for the sake of US and other foreign suppliers. The opposition seized upon …
Sri Lanka Minister of Technology Research and Atomic Energy Champika Ranawaka said that the Atomic Energy Act would be amended. Addressing the 57th session of the International Atomic Energy Agency held in Vienna, Austria, the Minister said that the 43 year old Act would be amended to meet the current …
877 hectares of land will be acquired for 6,000-MW project. In the run-up to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to the U.S., where a ‘pre-early works agreement’ is likely to be signed with American atomic major Westinghouse for a nuclear park at Mithivirdi, farmers of five villages in Gujarat’s Bhavnagar …
Mumbai : Anti-Jaitapur activists led by Pradeep Indulkar have now taken their protests global by launching a massive campaign in Germany, where they are organising 15 shows of his Yellow Oscar winning documentary film High Power on project affected people of the Tarapur nuclear power plant. While the short film …
