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The Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill, 2010 seeks to create a mechanism for compensating victims of nuclear damage arising from a nuclear incident. The Standing Committee tabled its report in Parliament on August 19, 2010, following which the government circulated a list of amendments to the Bill.
New Delhi: Amid indications that the government may amend the nuclear liability bill yet again to accommodate the opposition’s protest against dilution of the clause dealing with supplier liability, industry on Tuesday mounted a campaign warning that the toughening of the very same provisions could scare away suppliers —both Indian …
K.BalchandNEW DELHI: The Indian nuclear industry on Tuesday objected to certain provisions in the proposed Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill, 2010, fearing that it could hamper and completely undo the government's efforts at accelerating nuclear power generation.In a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Federation of Indian Chambers of …
Read this Discussion in Lok Sabha on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill, 2010.The bill has been approved after the government agreed to opposition’s demand for strengthening a contentious provision relating to suppliers' liability in the legislation. See Also Report: Parliamentary Committee on Nuclear Liability Bill www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/node/313253 Bill: Civil Liability …
The Civil Nuclear Liability Bill, 2010 that got approved in Lok Sabha on Aug 25, 2010 after government dropped the controversial provision on "intent" as a precondition for holding suppliers liable for a nuclear accident caused by defective equipment. The Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill, 2010 aims to provide …
G Babu Jayakumar | ENS Public hearings are meant to elicit people's views on upcoming projects, though authorities are not obliged to act on them.They are meant to be free, frank and transparent. But transparency is something alien to officials in India It all started with a proposed power project …
The compensation cheques in lieu of land acquisition have been lying in the Ratnagiri collector's office for several months nowEven as the Civi Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill (CLND) is likely to be cleared by Parliament, farmers in the Konkan district of Maharashtra have intensified their stir against the setting …
Once the controversial civil nuclear liability bill takes the shape of law, a complex generating one of the highest amounts of nuclear power in India would be set up in Ratnagiri district
NEW DELHI, 20 AUG: Bowing to pressure from the BJP and the Left parties, the government today dropped a controversial addition in the civil nuclear liability Bill which the Opposition said diluted the liability of suppliers for accidents caused by their negligence. The Union Cabinet, at a meeting chaired by …
A Gopalakrishnan Parliament must recognise that the nuclear reactor installed in INS Arihant represents a high potential risk for causing a major nuclear accident If INS Arihant
Santosh Patnaik VISAKHAPATNAM: The Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC) of the Ministry of Environment and Forests has asked the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) to submit a detailed report for finalising Terms of Reference (ToR) for environment impact assessment study for the nuclear power park at Kovvada in Srikakulam …
Jaipur: The Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) on Wednesday cleared the proposed Rajasthan Atomic Power Station Units 7 and 8. The two new reactors are to come up at the Rawatbhata Nuclear Power site in Rajasthan where six reactors of 1,180 MW are functioning, Nuclear Power Corp of India executive …
New Delhi: The government has ensured safe passage for the bill on civil liability for nuclear damage after sealing a deal with BJP on Tuesday by agreeing to a guarantee against private firms running power plants and bumping up the
Promoters of nuclear plants need patience and deep pockets. That’s the lesson being reinforced for India—from a showpiece project in its backyard and another in Finland, where French company Areva’s flagship project, is running into time and cost overruns. Both have implications for India’s programme of taking nuclear generation capacity …
Moscow: As if things in Russia were not looking sufficiently apocalyptic already, with 100-degree temperatures and noxious fumes rolling in from burning peat bogs and forests, there is growing alarm here that fires in regions coated with fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster 24 years ago could now be emitting …
THE Opposition on Wednesday managed to put off tabling of the NuClear Liability Bill by at least a week, but unfazed by the lack of consensus over it the government was planning to take up the legislation in the ongoing monsoon session of Parliament itself. The standing committee on science …
Established by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct), the Interagency Task Force on Radiation Source Protection and Security (Task Force) has made important progress since its 2006 report to the President and Congress to improve the security of domestic radioactive sources given the enduring threat of terrorists seeking radioactive …
Missiles Moved Out Of Depot As Toll Rises To 52Moscow: A noxious smog choked Moscow on Friday as Russia moved to protect military and nuclear sites from the relentless spread of wildfires that have killed 52 people. The defence ministry ordered the evacuation of missiles from a depot outside Moscow …
New Delhi: If the dominant view in the parliamentary committee examining the bill on civil liability for nuclear damage prevails, the proposed law will be fitted with tougher clauses detailing
