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 …
China will install wind and solar power capacity equivalent to 180 nuclear power reactors in the next 10 years to meet its growing energy needs, the International Energy Agency said on Monday, citing its latest estimate. Fatih Birol, chief economist at the IEA, also told Reuters that one in two …
The Supreme Court on Monday stated that if a viable proposal for a nuclear regulatory authority was brought before it after a public debate, it might recommend the suggestions to the government. But it declined to go beyond that. “The Supreme Court will remain Supreme Court; not Parliament or government,” …
The anti-Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project struggle committee has urged Collector R. Selvaraj to form a joint monitoring panel to ensure that work at the project site had stopped completely in compliance with the State cabinet's resolution. Leading the team that met Mr. Selvaraj at the Collectorate on Monday, committee convener …
For the many hoping for improvement in the dismal power scene in Tamil Nadu, there is now light at the end of a long tunnel of resistance against the Koodankulam nuclear power plant near here. The crowd under the protest-shamiana at Idinthakarai, close to the plant, is thinning. Local fishermen …
The Australian Labour Party has backed Prime Minister Julia Gillard's proposal to reverse the ban on sale of uranium to India. It was the Labour Party that forced the then Premier, Kevin Rudd, to overturn an assurance by the Conservative Party that was in power previously, to sell uranium to …
Ruling Labour Party votes in favour of lifting decades-old ban. Even as it faces a plethora of domestic problems, the Manmohan Singh government added another feather to its cap on the foreign policy front today when the ruling Australian Labour Party (ALP) approved a plan to lift the decades-old ban …
Australia's ruling Labor Party on Sunday endorsed plans to open up uranium sales to India, clearing the way for talks on a bilateral nuclear agreement and resolving an issue that has caused diplomatic tensions between the two nations. Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced the plan in November, but needed her …
French police Monday arrested four environmental activists who had managed earlier in the day to break into France's Nogent-sur-Seine nuclear plant, near Paris. "We can confirm there was the intrusion of elements in the power plant and four persons were arrested. Our team is still intervening there and we have …
A Peace Mission Team from Madurai inspects facilities at Kudankulam A Peace Mission Team from Madurai, led by secretary Synod of Pentecostal Churches, J.J.Y. Arul, that inspected the facilities at Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant has expressed satisfaction with the safety measures being adopted at the plant. Addressing newsmen here on …
In the wake of safety concerns in the aftermath of the Fukushima incident, India has decided to get assistance from an independent agency to review its own safety standards and audits. The Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) has decided to invite a safety review team of the International Atomic Energy …
More than eight months after disaster struck at its Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said an internal investigation, its first public assessment of its handling of the crisis, found no evidence of significant errors in its response. But the plant operator also conceded it still didn't have …
European Union governments agreed on Thursday to examine sanctions against Iran's energy sector as part of a broad push to increase financial pressure on Tehran over its nuclear programme. After agreeing to extend a list of people and entities affected by EU sanctions, foreign ministers of EU governments said that …
Molten nuclear fuel at Japan’s Fukushima plant might have eaten two thirds of the way through a concrete containment base, its operator said, citing a new simulation of the extent of the March disaster. Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) said their latest calculations showed the fuel inside the No. 1 reactor …
The local panchayat adjacent to the Kudankulam nuclear power plant has passed a resolution against the project, making things difficult for the state government caught between the rational to commission the nuclear power plant and protest in south Tamil Nadu against it. The panchayat’s decision is considered a setback for …
Molten nuclear fuel may have bored into the floor of at least one of the reactors at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, the complex’s operator said Wednesday, citing a new simulation of the accident that crippled the plant in March. The simulation suggested that the meltdown may have …
The Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) is an Indo‐Russian joint venture for establishing a nuclear power station with 2 units (KKNPP‐1&2) of 1000 MWe Pressurized Water Reactors of VVER design at Kudankulam in Tamilnadu. The proposed Power station is covered by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards, on lines …
Declaring his party’s solidarity with the people of Konkan, Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday said if they do not want the atomic power project in Jaitapur, then his party will not let it happen. Uddhav’s statement came in front of eminent nuclear scientists of the country, Dr …
Almost two weeks after India announced its much-awaited rules for nuclear liability, France on Tuesday expressed satisfaction that the new rules put responsibility on all the stakeholders, foreign as well as domestic entities. This is the first response from the French government after the new rules were announced on November …
“You cannot start a reactor if you don't have full confidence of local people” Chairperson of the Atomic Energy Commission of France Bernard Bigot on Monday said the controversial European Pressurized Reactor (EPR) technology was re-evaluated after the Fukushima disaster and it had got the green signal from the nuclear …
Former President A P J Abdul Kalam on Monday flew to Seoul to advise the Korean government on the second Nuclear Security Summit in March next year. The summit will seek to prevent terrorists and non-state actors from getting hold of nuclear material. Kalam, who has been credited with Pokhran-II, …
