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TEPCO also started increasing the amount of water being injected into the troubled No.1 reactor core as it prepared to flood the unit's primary containment vessel to cool the fuel inside in a stable manner Scrambling hard to contain its worst atomic crisis, Japan is mulling setting up of a …
MUMBAI: Though more than 50% of the Japanese population has backed nuclear power despite the debacle at Fukushima following the earthquake and tsunami on March 11, people are still concerned about its safety, Japanese ambassador to India, Akitaka Saiki, said. Addressing a packed meeting organized by the Observer Research Foundation, …
A world population analysis reveals the locations that could put the most people in danger should a nuclear accident occur. http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110427/full/472400a.html
The government today refused to give in to demands to halt work to build nuclear power plants at Jaitapur in Maharashtra but in a big step to instil public confidence in the harnessing of nuclear energy, it decided to make the sectoral regulator, Atomic Energy Regulatory Board, an independent and …
Nuclear Regulatory Authority soon to check safety, higher compensation for displaced The Centre will go ahead with the 9,900 MW Jaitapur nuclear power park in Maharashtra. A high-level meeting convened by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday decided to set up an autonomous Nuclear Authority of India to address people
The level of toxic water in two of the six reactors of the Fukushima plant has risen and is hampering the work of restoring its cooling functions Tokyo, April 26: The embattled operator of Japan
The meeting held between PM Manmohan Singh, Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Chairman Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) and other senior officials reviewed current status of the Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project as well as safety concerns arising out of the nuclear accident at Fukushima in Japan and their impact on …
p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Jaitapur Nuclear Power Plant derived its name From Jaitapur lighthouse which is mentioned in many international maps. Government of India has decided to promote nuclear power at a large scale in view of rapidly rising demand for electricity, limited and depleting fossil resources, environmentally benign …
The safety of nuclear power plants has become the hot topic of debate everywhere after the Fukushima disaster. Safety concerns have been raised over the 9,900 MW Jaitapur nuclear power project (JNPP). DNA got in touch with the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) to answer queries over the …
On April 26, 1986, a reactor at Chernobyl exploded, setting off the world's worst nuclear catastrophe. It is tragically symbolic that exactly 25 years later, another nuclear disaster struck Japan. It is doubly tragic that the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant may eclipse what happened at Chernobyl. Critics …
The government on April 26 accepted the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) safety review project called the Operational Safety Review Team programme (OSART). The government will introduce an independent Nuclear Regulatory Authority of India. The Atomic Energy Regulatory Board will come under it, said environment minister Jairam Ramesh. Initial results …
Despite being in the middle of a nuclear crisis, Japan has decided to carry forward the talks on civil nuclear deal will India, but with a rider: the next round of negotiations will be held only after the safety audit of nuclear plants in both countries. India has 20 nuclear …
Wants Stoppage Of All N-Reactors Till Review Kolkata: Rift in CPM came to the fore again on Thursday after party general secretary Prakash Karat called for a stop on the commissioning of nuclear reactors. Karat
The CPM is against setting up of new nuclear plants in the country in view of the Fukushima disaster in Japan, party general secretary Prakash Karat said on Thursday.
Asserting that nuclear power will play a major role in meeting the energy needs of the country during the 12th Five-Year Plan, the Planning Commission on Thursday said the country needed an additional 1,00,000 MW of power during the 12th Plan period (2012-17) and therefore capacity expansion should be undertaken …
Workers employed at the Jaitapur nuclear power project site at Madban village have fled after the violent incidents on April 18 when a mob damaged equipment and indulged in arson. A Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) spokesperson on Thursday told The Hindu on the phone that workers have …
Japan said today it would ban anyone entering the 20-km (12-mile) evacuation zone around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant north of Tokyo, weeks after the tsunami-wrecked facility began leaking radiation. Tens of thousands of people left the zone after the March 11 quake smashed the power station, operated by Tokyo …
Two days after Tabrez Sayekar was killed in police firing near Jaitapur, the deadlock between the villagers and local authorities ended on Wednesday afternoon following which the villagers accepted the victim
Chandigarh Haryana government has shortlisted two locations for setting up its second nuclear power plant. The sites, Kitlana in Bhiwani and Balsamand in Hisar districts, were approved by the Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) in February this year and one of them will be finalised for setting up of …
