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. …
As a review of all the nuclear facilities in the country is underway, the authorities are factoring in the lessons learnt from the Fukushima episode and even beyond to ensure that the atomic installations are able to weather all the possible disasters. The upgrade in safety features of the nuclear …
Till we can produce sufficient solar and wind power, coal, gas and nuclear power will remain our mainstay When parts of Japan were devastated recently by an earthquake and subsequent tsunami, news of the human toll was quickly overshadowed by global fears of radioactive fallout from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear …
A five-judge bench of the Supreme Court, headed by Chief Justice H S Kapadia began the hearing of curative petitions in the Bhopal gas tragedy on April 13. While hearing the curative petition filed by the CBI to re-examine the 1996 Supreme Court's judgement, the five-judge bench questioned the CBI …
A strong aftershock of magnitude 5.9 today jolted Japan as its workers scrambled hard to stabilise the radiation-leaking Fukushima nuclear plant, where the level of highly toxic water in a reactor
India is putting in place an elaborate plan for legal and institutional reform to ensure its civilian nuclear programme meets all international safety standards. The objective is to make Indian nuclear reactors more resistant to disasters, said sources accompanying the Prime Minister. A new law is on the cards that …
The controversial April 15: The controversial Jaitapur nuclear power project will be implemented despite all the hurdles, said Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh on Friday and even suggested that an independent security system should be in place for all the six power plants in Jaitapur.
Designing and running nuclear power requires an entirely different mode of planning and assessment than possible with conventional risk analysis. There is little indication that the existing organisational culture of the Department of Atomic Energy permits such “over-the-horizon” creative thinking as is required.
MUMBAI: All eyes will be on the state guest house on Friday when CM Prithviraj Chavan will meet Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh to decide the fate of a slew of infrastructure projects, including the crucial coastal road proposal. The ambitious scheme hit a roadblock recently after the Centre struck …
A team of the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL), which is setting up a nuclear power plant at Gorakhpur in Fatehabad, would shortly meet Haryana officials to clear the misgivings related to the recent nuclear mishap in Fukushima, Japan, as also sensitise state officials about the safety preparedness …
According to the cables released by Wikileaks, an official of the International Atomic Energy Agency told Japan’s nuclear officials in 2008 that its safety rules were out of date and strong earthquakes would pose a “serious problem” for nuclear power stations. The Japanese government pledged to upgrade safety at all …
THE nuclear disaster in the aftermath of the Japan tsunami shows how safety issues around nuclear power affect people living continents away from nuclear reactors. Yet the public is either not informed or misinformed about scientific intricacies of nuclear power. The blog, All Things Nuclear, demystifies the nuclear world. Run …
INDIA is constructing six nuclear power plants—two each at Kudankulam in Tamil Nadu, Kakrapar in Gujarat, and Rawatbhata in Rajasthan. Together, they will generate 4,800 MWe of power, states the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board’s website. This is a big leap towards enhancing the country’s nuclear stature. But is the country …
The Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited on Wednesday announced additional safety measures at all nuclear power plants even as it reiterated that the country
Even as the Fukushima-Daiichi disaster is still unfolding, Indian and Chinese administrations and utilities have confirmed their will to continue with their nuclear new build programmes relying on most advanced standards. Similar commitment is being shown by the US, Canada and Brazil. However, Italy and Switzerland have decided to reflect …
Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) has submitted its internal safety assessment report, which was made in the light of the Japan nuclear crisis, to the Department of Atomic Energy. As part of efforts to revisit the safety of Indian nuclear power plants, four task-forces were set up to assess …
A smoke alarm in the Kaiga Nuclear Power Generating Station located in coastal district of Uttara Kannada in Karnataka has forced authorities to shut down the third unit of the plant. According to officials in the nuclear plant, after a smoke alarm in a pump house on Saturday evening made …
Expressing deep concern over the tsunami-triggered nuclear crisis in Japan, an ad-hoc group of nuclear safety experts from all over the world, that includes India
