Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda put the issue of phasing-out the country's reliance on nuclear energy on the back-burner Tuesday, saying his new administration's priorities are post-disaster reconstruction and economic recovery. "In the mid- to long-term, we must aim to minimize our dependency on nuclear energy," Mr. Noda said in …
Lives of people around the plant are valuable Nearly 10,000 persons accompanied the 127 persons observing an indefinite fast at Idinthakarai against the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project on Monday. Bishop of Tuticorin RC Diocese Yvon Ambroise, who participated in the fast being held near St. Lourdes Church in the coastal …
Demanding an immediate closure of the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant, a large number of fisherfolk of Idinthakarai and neighbouring coastal villages in Tirunelveli district observed an indefinite hunger strike in front of St. Lourde Mary Curch at the village on Sunday. The agitators said that implementation of the project would …
Over 4,000 people today observed a fast to intensify their protest against the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project in the district. The villagers observed the fast at a village, which is 5 km from the site. Anti-nuclear plant activists also planned to organise fast at Koodankulam tomorrow, an activist said. The …
Radioactive material released into the sea in the Fukushima nuclear power plant crisis is more than triple the amount estimated by plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co, Japanese researchers say. Japan's biggest utility estimated around 4,720 trillion becquerels of cesium-137 and iodine-131 was released into the Pacific Ocean between March …
The Bombay High Court on Thursday directed the state government to consider giving better fishing facilities and coastal land to the 53 families who have been given alternative accommodation on account of the Tarapur nuclear power project. The court also directed the state secretary for rehabilitation to look into the …
MUMBAI: The BombayHC on Thursday directed the state to consider the request of fishermen, rehabilitated due to the Tarapur atomic plant, for land near coast to store boats and equipment. A division bench of Justices Ranjana Desai and R G Ketkar was hearing a clutch of intervention pleas saying that …
NEW DELHI: The government is looking at allotting another site for nuclear reactor to Russia in place of Haripur in West Bengal, a location marred by controversy. Confirming that the Russians have officially sought another site, government sources indicated a new site could be allotted soon. The Mamta Banerjee-led government …
A committee appointed by Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) after the Fukushima nuclear accident in March this year has recommended that India’s nuclear power plants (NPPs) should have an emergency facility that will remain functional during calamities like earthquake or tsunami. The panel chaired by former AERB chairman S K …
After weathering the East Coast’s recent quake, the North Anna nuclear plant finds itself in a situation that no American reactor has ever faced before. The shock was bigger than anything its designers thought it would ever experience —big enough to make 17-ton canisters of spent fuel skitter a few …
A farmer sitting on a hunger strike along with other peasants to protest acquisition of land for the proposed nuclear power plant in Fatehabad district of Haryana died on Tuesday at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (PGIMS), Rohtak. Ishwar Singh Siwach, a 60-year-old farmer from Gorakhpur village farmer, …
Fatehabad: After the death of an agitating farmer, Gorakhpur villagers sitting in dharna against the acquisition of their land for the atomic power project have demanded abrogation of Sections 4 and 6 of the Land Acquisition Act before they cremate the body. Ishwar Singh Siwach (60) was admitted to the …
People residing in Koodankulam, Idinthakarai and nearby villages plan to go on hunger strike on September 11, at Idinthakarai in Tirunelveli district. They are demanding closing down of the Koodankulam nuclear power plants, a release by the People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy said here on Wednesday. The decision to intensify …
A Bill to establish an Authority and such other regulatory bodies for regulation of radiation safety or nuclear safety and achieving highest standards of such safety based on scientific approach, operating experience and best practices followed by nuclear industry and to ensure that the use of radiation and atomic energy …
The Tirunelveli Collector on Monday informed the Madras High Court Bench here that no proposal existed at present to grant lease for any kind of stone quarry within a radius of 5 kilometres from the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant, which was expected to become operational soon. Justices P. Jyothimani and …
The purpose of this action plan is to define a programme of work to strengthen the global nuclear safety framework. The plan consists of actions building on the Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Safety convened in June 2011, the conclusions and recommendations of the Working Sessions, and the experience and knowledge …
Japan's new prime minister has made clear he sees nuclear power playing a part in energy supply for decades -- so one of his first challenges is to convince a skeptical public to allow shut reactors to restart. Yoshihiko Noda inherits a country with no cohesive energy policy after the …
The earthquake that shook the East Coast last week rattled casks holding radioactive nuclear waste at a Virginia plant, moving them as much as 4.5 inches from their original position, the plant's operator said. The 5.8-magnitude quake shifted 25 casks, each 16 feet tall and weighing 115 tons, on a …
Nuclear regulators said Thursday they want the operators of all 104 U.S. commercial reactors to conduct new assessments of their facilities' vulnerability to earthquake damage. The decision was motivated by the increased awareness that seismic risks may have been underestimated by nuclear-power industry and regulators in the past, especially for …
After a lull of about four months, the Maharashtra Secretariat is making moves to resolve the impasse over the Jaitapur nuclear project. The Maharashtra Government is considering a higher compensation package for farmers who had to give up their land for the project. The State is considering increasing the compensation …
