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Cape Town – A church near the Parliamentary precinct made its opposition to the government's nuclear plans visible when it unfurled a big yellow banner on Sunday. "New-Clear Power NOT Nuclear," read the banner hung on the wall of the Central Methodist Mission church in Cape Town’s Green Market Square. …
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - Greenpeace Africa and other NGOs intend to appeal against South Africa’s decision to grant an environmental permit for a new 4,000 megawatt nuclear plant close to Cape Town, the activists said on Monday. Last month South Africa’s department of environmental affairs granted authorisation to state-owned power …
Crucial for implementing the Indian atomic power programme, the closed nuclear fuel cycle is the future of the global industry, according to a Russian expert. Crucial for implementing the Indian atomic power programme, the closed nuclear fuel cycle is the future of the global industry, according to a Russian expert, …
Russia has signed a deal to build two nuclear power plants in Nigeria, as Africa's largest economy seeks to end its energy crisis. Russian state-owned company Rosatom will build one in the south, the other in the centre, sources at the Nigeria Atomic Energy Commission told the BBC. The deal's …
ABU DHABI (Reuters) - South Africa’s nuclear regulator said on Tuesday that an installation site license would likely be granted in June for a nuclear power plant that the finance minister has said Africa’s most advanced economy cannot afford. South Africa’s nuclear plans are shrouded in controversy and uncertainty, with …
NEW DELHI: Technological and financial concerns as well as differences over taking responsibility for the construction of the proposed 10,000-mw nuclear power plant at Jaitapur in Maharashtra are weighing down efforts to fast-track the general framework agreement ahead of French president Emmanuel Macron's visit in December. Macron will be in …
This is considered a crucial step The State government is all set to announce the final list of Project Displaced Families (PDFs) of the Kovvada atomic power plant in couple of weeks. The final declaration will have all the details of the properties of the displaced persons. This is being …
The operator of Japan’s stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has been given initial approval to restart reactors at another atomic facility, marking the first step towards the firm’s return to nuclear power generation more than six years after the March 2011 triple meltdown. Japan’s nuclear regulator on Wednesday approved …
The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2017 (WNISR2017) provides a comprehensive overview of nuclear power plant data, including information on operation, production and construction. The WNISR assesses the status of new-build programs in current nuclear countries as well as in potential newcomer countries. The WNISR2017 edition includes a new assessment …
Cairo - Russian media say Egypt has finalised a deal to build a nuclear power plant with funding from Moscow after nearly two years of negotiations. The reports Monday came after Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in China, where they were attending a summit. The …
TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo Electric Power Co Holdings said on Thursday it has been hit with another lawsuit filed in a U.S. court seeking $5 billion for compensation over the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, the second filed against the utility in a U.S. court. The suit filed by 157 individuals …
Site Director says it has generated 14,148 million units of power The first reactor of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP), which is now undergoing scheduled second refuelling cycle after generating 14,148 million units of electricity ever since it was connected to the Southern Grid in October 2013, will resume power …
The recently published World Nuclear Performance Report 2017 reveals that more than 9 GW of new nuclear capacity came online in 2016, the largest annual increase for over 25 years; and global nuclear generation rose for the fourth successive year. Nuclear reactors continued to produce high performance levels in 2016, …
Remaining 1,500 acres to be given in three months The State government on Wednesday handed over 473 acres of land to the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) to facilitate construction of an atomic power plant in Kovvada village of Ranasthalam mandal in the district. The government would hand …
Substantial work has been carried out in the areas of research on technologies for utilization of thorium in nuclear fuel cycle, and on the development of an Advanced Heavy Water Reactor (AHWR), for use of thorium based fuel on a large scale. Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), a constituent Unit …
EDF proposes to take care of engineering and a large share of procurement and wants the Nuclear Power Corporation of India to take care of construction. A French firm, which is to build six atomic reactors at Jaitapur, has submitted a fresh plan to the NPCIL proposing to share a …
“We are drawing up a new power allotment formula under which maximum power from Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project 3 and 4 units will be for TN,” Union Power Minister Piyush Goyal has said. A request was made by Tamil Nadu that maximum power should be allotted to the State from …
Wind energy and solar power will be the cheapest form of power generation in every G20 country by the year 2030 at the latest, a new Greenpeace Germany report has found. Ahead of the G20 Summit in Hamburg, the Greenpeace Germany-commissioned study also found that in about half of the …
Hidden from public, on the shores of the Bay of Bengal at Kalpakkam near Chennai, Indian nuclear scientists are in the final throes of starting a high-tech giant stove more than 15 years in the making. This novel nuclear reactor is a kind of an ‘akshaya patra’, the mythical goblet …
CHENNAI: Anti-nuclear activists are gearing up for yet another legal battle with the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) granting ‘first pour of concrete’ (FPC) to units three and four in the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KKNPP). A writ petition is likely to be filed in the Madras High Court in …
