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 …
The earthquake last Tuesday in Virginia may have produced stronger shaking at the North Anna nuclear plant than the reactors were designed to withstand, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has sent additional inspectors to determine what steps are needed to determine if there is damage. No significant damage has been …
Facing higher resistance to nuclear power after the Japanese disaster this year, French officials said Monday they would seek to promote stronger international policies on nuclear energy, despite opposition from some other countries who resist tougher supranational regulation. French Prime Minister François Fillon on Monday called for the creation of …
Six months after Japan suffered the world's worst nuclear disaster in 25 years, a race is on to succeed Prime Minister Naoto Kan. But the widespread fallout from the crisis in Fukushima is barely on the lips of most of the contenders. To the extent they have hinted at a …
Japan's lower house of parliament passed a bill on Tuesday to promote investment in solar and other renewable energy sources as politicians took a step toward the prime minister's goal of reducing reliance on nuclear power. Damage and the radiation leak at the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has shattered …
The Central government is likely to table the Nuclear Safety Regulatory Authority Bill in the current session of Parliament, which will set up the Atomic Energy Regulatory Authority (AERA) as a statutory body that will likely report to Parliament. This was stated by energy secretary and Department of Atomic Energy …
Japan's lawmakers have the opportunity to show how strong their support is for boosting renewable power supply to replace nuclear reactors with the passage of a green energy subsidy scheme likely within days. The country is struggling to overhaul its energy policies after the March quake and tsunami triggered a …
It won't be easy to run a national railway on renewable energy like wind, hydro and solar power but that is what Germany's Deutsche Bahn aims to do for one simple reason: it's what consumers want. Deutsche Bahn says it wants to raise the percentage of wind, hydro and solar …
While asserting that there could be “no compromise” on ensuring the highest safety standards for nuclear reactors, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday emphasised the importance of nuclear power. “We are in the process of expanding our civil nuclear energy programme. Even as we do so, we have to ensure …
Belarus said Friday that it would suspend an agreement to give up its supply of highly enriched uranium, torpedoing, at least temporarily, what was considered a significant victory by the Obama administration in curtailing the spread of dangerous nuclear material. The move comes in response to the latest wave of …
The half-century-old, oil-fueled power generators here had been idle for more than a year when, a day after the nuclear accident in March, orders came from Tokyo Electric Power headquarters to fire them up. Workers at the Yokosuka power plant, whose turbine is a half-century old. “They asked me how …
ELECTRICITY producers in Germany are in disarray. The cause of the chaos is the government: in June it decided to shut all the country’s nuclear power stations by 2022, after Japan’s struggles to contain radiation leaks from its reactors following an earthquake and tsunami in March. A study commissioned by …
Iran’s top nuclear negotiator said Tuesday that a Russian proposal could be “a basis to start negotiations” on Iran’s disputed nuclear program. The proposal calls for the other countries to make limited concessions to Iran for each step it takes toward opening its nuclear program fully to international inspection and …
The big increase in uranium reserves estimated in Tummalapalle in Andhra Pradesh has given a boost to prospecting efforts for new finds. The Atomic Minerals Directorate (AMD) has now initiated the process of drilling in the Mahaboobnagar and Kurnool districts of Andhra Pradesh. As a step in this direction, the …
About two dozen environmental groups launched a volley of legal challenges at nuclear regulators on Thursday in an attempt to stall action to extend the operation of aging reactors and to delay construction of more advanced nuclear designs. Using findings of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's own Fukushima task force …
The basis of India's international civil nuclear cooperation remains what is contained in the special exemption from the Nuclear Supplier Group (NSG) guidelines given on September 6, 2008, the Minister for External Affairs, Mr S.M. Krishna, told the Lok Sabha on Wednesday. In a suo motu statement on ‘Nuclear Enrichment …
The Japanese government said Tuesday that it may lift an evacuation advisory for some areas near the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant as soon as next month, in what would be the first areas reopened since the nuclear accident in March. The easing has become possible because of success in …
Japan's nuclear crisis minister unveiled a plan on Friday to form a more independent nuclear safety regulator by next April in an effort to restore faith in the country's ability to effectively police utility firms after the Fukushima crisis. The watchdog will be separated from the trade ministry, which promotes …
LUCKNOW: City youth on Saturday took out a campaign to promote the use of indigenous energy resources such as coal, gas, solar, wind energy, biogas, and ensuring future energy supplies from Iran and other countries of West and Central Asia. The campaign, titled 'Lessons from Japan 2011', was taken out …
Japan has announced a major overhaul of its nuclear safety regime that will aim to sever links between regulators and the nuclear lobby, links that critics say made atomic plants such as Fukushima Daiichi more vulnerable to accidents. Goshi Hosono, the minister in charge of Tokyo’s response to the triple …
Japan's minister in charge of nuclear safety said Friday that the country's planned nuclear safety agency may come under the jurisdiction of a different government department from its predecessors, in a move to accelerate its separation from an industry ministry mired in scandals. "We are discussing the merits and demerits …
