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 …
Acknowledging the negative impact the Fukushima disaster has had on the acceptability of atomic power, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told a gathering of world leaders here on Tuesday that the synergy between the “highest standards of safety and security…is essential to restore public faith in nuclear energy.” In a statement …
The condition of five persons, including Mr S. P. Udhayakumar, who have been fasting for the last eight days as part of the Kudankulam agitation, worsened today with doctors advising shifting them to a hospital, officials said today. The anti-nuclear power plant activists led by the People’s Movement Against Nuclear …
Eight days after they began an indefinite fast against the nuclear power plant at Koodankulam, the protesting leaders called it off after talks with district authorities this morning. S P Udayakumar and M Pushparayan were among the 15 people who withdrew the fast, but said their struggle would continue until …
India joined a select band of nations on Monday when the Nuclear Fuel Complex (NFC) here successfully manufactured critical tubes required for steam generators of nuclear power plants. Currently, only three companies in the world are producing the UNS NO8800 U tubes with NFC becoming the fourth entity. The first …
Referring to the proposed nuclear power plant at Kovvada in Srikakulam district, Dr S.K. Jain, chairman and managing director of the Nuclear Power Corporation of India, said land acquisition would start soon as all misgivings have been cleared. “Ours is a public sector company and everything is transparent,” he declared. …
Continuing his fast against the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant, convener of People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) S P Udayakumar today said the protesters were "ready" for talks. "We are ready for talks. If we are considered people of this country and if our ahimsa protest is respected, government should …
New Delhi: The prolonged protests against the Kudankulam nuclear plant added $180 million (around Rs 900 crore) to the cost of the power project, with India losing around $1 million a day, Russian ambassador Alexander M Kadakin has said. Ahead of PM Manmohan Singh’s meeting with President Dmitry Medvedev this …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today asked South Korean businessmen to help India expand its burgeoning solar and nuclear power sectors by investing in these environment-friendly technologies. "We are committed to increasing energy efficiency and the share of renewables, including solar and nuclear power, in our energy mix," Singh told a …
Instead of imposing nuclear power upon unwilling people, India should join the renewables revolution for handsome gains. PRIME Minister Manmohan Singh has stooped low by alleging that the large-scale protests against the Kudankulam nuclear power station in Tamil Nadu, sustained impressively for six months, are inspired and financed by American …
Reports by the experts’ panel, came in handy for the Tamil Nadu government to give its approval for the Kudankulam nuclear power project downstate, it is learnt. The expert groups of both the central and state governments observed the proposed 2,000-Mw endeavour met current safety standards. Besides, officials say, rising …
Activist groups fear rights violation in Kudankulam area, where police have been heavily deployed to curb protests against State government's green signal to the project. Seeking release of all those arrested by the police in and around Kudankulam area, Pon Chandran of Peoples Movement against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) said in …
TIRUNELVELI, TN: Leaders of various parties and outfits, including MDMK leader Vaiko, were on Friday arrested here when they attempted to proceed to Idinthakarai, the epicentre of protests against Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant, to express their solidarity with the locals demanding the scrapping of the Indo-Russian project. Leaders and volunteers …
In a bid to prevent Koodankulam-like protests against nuclear power plants, the Department of Atomic Energy is pushing the government to ensure uninterrupted power supply at cheaper rates to people living near the sites. DAE secretary Srikumar Banerjee told The Indian Express that local people needed to be given “preferential …
Fuel woes notwithstanding, a record 13,332 MW has been commissioned in the first 11 months of this fiscal — the highest power capacity addition ever in a single year. With another 2,000 MW expected to come onstream in March, the last month of 2011-12, the cumulative power capacity addition this …
950 staff, including Russian technocrats, return to work For the first time after nearly five-and-a-half months, the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) received its optimum strength of around 950 technical and non-technical personnel and 100 Russian technocrats on Tuesday morning when operations were revived following the State Cabinet resolution on …
Civil society members, including former judges, writers, scientists, academicians, filmmakers and lawyers, have condemned the Tamil Nadu government's decision “to give the green signal to commissioning of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) and the massive deployment of police force to crush the peaceful agitation.” Releasing an appeal to Chief …
It will benefit trade and industry that are reeling under power crisis Industries in Coimbatore region, which are hit by power shortage and had demanded commissioning of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project at the earliest, welcomed the announcement by the State Government on Monday that efforts will be taken for …
The work at Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant returned to normal on Tuesday, a day after Tamil Nadu government gave the goahead to the stalled Indo-Russian project. Officials said the first unit would be commissioned “as soon as possible.” “We are happy that the government is with us. All our 1,000 …
Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) seems set to counter NGOs campaigning against atomic energy with another group of NGOs it will fund and support, so as to build a positive image of the public sector nuclear monopoly. Close on the heels of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh blaming foreign …
Read this report on the Nuclear Safety Regulatory Authority Bill, 2011 presented by Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Technology, Environment and Forests to the Rajya Sabha on 21/03/2012. Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science & Technology, Environment & Forests present this Two Hundred and Twenty First Report on The …
