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 …
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.
NPCIL to submit technical details to MoEF before starting work With the first two units of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) coming close to the stage of commissioning, the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) has received the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) clearance for starting work on the …
Shifting the debate over the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant from the nuclear risk perception to the “Emergency-like” suppression of democracy and civil liberties of the local population of Idinthakarai, a panel of civil society activists on Monday urged the governments at the Centre and State to give up their confrontationist …
Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Monday demanded the Union government accord special treatment to Tamil Nadu by absorbing a portion of the cost of the Rs.500-crore special package meant for meeting basic needs of the people residing around the Kundankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KKNPP) site. In her speech at the Union …
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 …
Warmer water and reduced river flows will cause more power disruptions for nuclear and coal-fired power plants in the United States and Europe in future, scientists say, and lead to a rethink on how best to cool power stations in a hotter world. In a study published on Monday, a …
Japan could cut its greenhouse gas emissions between 20 and 27 percent by 2030 if it relies solely on domestic measures and based on the nation's reliance on nuclear power, projections by the Environment Ministry show. In addition, the estimates indicate the nation will likely have to renege on a …
Deputy Prime Minister Katsuya Okada has indicated the government may scrap an international pledge to cut greenhouse gas emissions 25 percent by 2020 because of the Fukushima nuclear crisis. The reduction target "is a number computed on the premise that we will depend on nuclear power to a fair degree," …
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 …
Wants consent order for operating plant issued only after this is done A fishermen's welfare organisation has filed a public interest litigation petition in the Madras High Court seeking a direction to the Member-Secretary of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) here to inspect the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project …
The study found that subsidising geothermal technology initially would help to bring down costs rapidly as UK sites were developed The UK could meet a fifth of its power needs – the equivalent of nine nuclear power stations – by exploiting geothermal power, a new report into the technology has …
China spurred a jump in global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to their highest ever recorded level in 2011, offsetting falls in the United States and Europe, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Thursday. CO2 emissions rose by 3.2 percent last year to 31.6 billion tonnes, preliminary estimates from the …
An advisory panel to the industry ministry finalized four options for the nation's future energy mix to be presented to the government as it prepares to compile a new policy this summer, the panel's chairman said. The options presented Monday call for the government to seek a society in which …
The blazing blue skies that Germany baked under last weekend added a fresh gleam to the nation's renewable energy revolution: a new world record for solar power generation, equivalent to 20 nuclear power stations. It is the battle between nuclear, fossil fuels and renewables, and between the big utilities and …
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 …
Perween Riaz, a housemaid and mother of five, moved into her two-room abode in Neelam Colony, one of several informal settlements in Karachi, in Sindh province, a year ago. But since she migrated from a small village in the Punjab province for a better life, most of Riaz's household gadgets …
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 …
Talks between Iran and six world powers on its disputed nuclear program failed to produce a breakthrough on Thursday, in an apparent diplomatic setback for both sides. The six wanted a freeze on Iranian production of uranium enriched to 20 percent purity, which is considered a short step from bomb …
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 …
