The Government of Andhra Pradesh on March 11, 2024, issued the Andhra Pradesh Energy Efficiency and Energy Conservation Policy 2023-2028 to encourage and promote the large-scale deployment of energy conservation and efficiency measures in the State. This policy ensures efficient energy usage directly catering to the local and national economy …
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: The Southern bench of the National Green Tribunal has granted a permanent injunction restraining the authorities from constructing a Coast Guard station at Sadraskuppam, near the Kalpakkam atomic plant. The tribunal said the proposed construction flouted the environmental norms under the Coastal Regulatory Zone (CRZ) notification. A Iyappan of …
Gujarat and Rajasthan will house four indigenous nuclear power reactors that are expected to be completed by 2019. “At present, four indigenous nuclear power reactors, at Kakrapar, Gujarat and Rawatbhata, Rajasthan are under construction and are expected to be completed by 2019,” said Union Minister of State, Dr Jitendra Singh …
Cancer was responsible for 16% deaths among Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) employees between January 2010 and April 2014, said epidemiologists from the DAE-run Tata Memorial Hospital, Parel, on Tuesday. They said the figure was similar to cancer death rates in urban India. The experts said this while repudiating RTI-based …
The Madras Atomic Power Station (MAPS) at Kalpakkam has been operating its two units for about three decades without environmental clearance and hence the units cannot be allowed to run unless they fulfil mandatory requirements, a PIL has said. The first bench comprising acting Chief Justice RK Agrawal and Justice …
The Madras High Court has issued a notice to the Centre and Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board on a PIL seeking to direct the Kalpakkam Atomic Power Station to get environmental clearance. The plea, referring to a recent Supreme Court judgement, said without due clearance from AEC, AERB, and NPCIL …
The People’s Union of Civil Liberties (PUCL) urged the Centre, on Saturday, not to go ahead with the expansion activities at the nuclear energy facility in Kalpakkam by constructing more power plants without scientifically establishing that there was no volcanic activity in the Bay of Bengal. If it has been …
Eminent nuclear scientist Anil Kakodkar will inaugurate an international conference on water desalination, treatment and management here today (Thursday), bringing together experts, technocrats, policy-makers and suppliers to deliberate on the issues concerning technical and execution aspects of water management schemes. Mr. Kakodkar--Homi Bhabha Chair Professor in the Department of Atomic …
She also wants entire power from Kudankulam project to be dedicated to Tamil Nadu Foreseeing a worsening of power crisis, Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Tuesday wrote to the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seeking allocation of 2,830 MW of power from Central generating stations to the State as an interim arrangement …
Keen on avoiding community opposition of the kind seen for the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant, the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) will launch a sensitisation initiative ahead of starting work on two more 500 MW reactors in Kalpakkam, IGCAR Director S. C. Chetal said on Wednesday. Addressing the …
The cyclone has left two people dead so far The coastal districts of Tamil Nadu were hit by Cyclone Nilam this evening. With wind speeds of up to 100 km/hour, it severely affected many areas in Tamil Nadu, as well as Andhra Pradesh. According to PTI reports, the cyclone left …
Plant is designed to withstand wind velocity of 160 kmph, Met office has forecast maximum surface wind speed of 45-110 kmph With cyclone 'Nilam' intensifying into a severe storm, Madras Atomic Power Station at coastal Kalpakkam today said the situation was being "closely watched" and asserted the plant is designed …
TPDK, VHP members stage demonstrations The Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) will help improve power supply in Tamil Nadu, Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office, Personnel, Public Grievances, and Pensions, V. Narayanasamy, said here on Monday. Inaugurating a conference organised by the Southern India Mills Association, he said …
Fukushima is a lesson to be learnt but not to be afraid of, as nuclear energy is inevitable for the progress of the nation, M. Sai Baba, Associate Director of Resources Management Group at the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research at Kalpakkam, has said. Safety regulations Interacting with the …
Chief Minister announces measures to tide over crisis Faced with flak from all quarters over the government’s handling of the energy crisis, Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy on Wednesday said that the State had sought an additional 500 MW of power from the central power generation stations in the …
The manned mission to moon by 2020 will pave way for tapping energy-rich helium-3 available in abundance on the satellite, said A. Sivathanu Pillai, Distinguished Scientist and Chief Controller, Defence Research and Development Organisation. Energy generated through fusion process using helium-3 will be several fold higher than the fission method …
Mumbai’s Tata Memorial Centre has begun work to set up a community-based cancer registry and carry out health surveys to document the precise occurrence of cancer, birth defects and other illnesses around India’s atomic power plants. The move to study the incidence of the disease comes in the wake of …
With the Tamil Nadu government announcing a special Rs 500 crore package to be used to spruce infrastructure facilities in the villages around the nuclear power plant in Koodankulam, the panchayat presidents of villages around Kalpakkam — where a nuclear power station and related facilities are located — have raised …
Move triggered by earthquake of 8.9 magnitude that has been felt in Indonesia The state-run Nuclear Power Corporation (NPC) would soon shut down the two units each of 220 MW at the Kalpakaam nuclear project. The step has been taken as a precautionary measure in the wake of a tsunami …
Transparency is essential in holy grails like nuke energy and agri research. The resignation of Roddam Narasimha from the Space Commission is a matter of concern and the prime minister has done well not to accept it. It is of some importance to mend that fissure as soon as possible. …
