Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Akhilesh Kumar Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 23/05/2025. The matter related to illegal mining activites carried out by Jai Maa Chandrika Enterprises, Rajendra Nagar, village Kabari, district Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh. The applicant also alleged about illegal sale …
Fukushima: Residents in Kawamata and Iitate began leaving their homes today after their living areas were included in an evacuation radius the government widened last month around the radiation-leaking Fukushima nuclear power plant. Kawamata Mayor Michio Furukawa met with some 50 residents in the first group of evacuees telling them:
A government body conducted analyses on the damage tsunamis of various scale would inflict on a nuclear power plant, according to documents made public on Sunday, adding to allegations that Japan and its largest utility failed to heed warnings. The latest revelation, reported by the Mainichi daily, emerged as the …
Japanese officials are readying a new approach o stabilising a reactor at a nuclear plant crippled by an earthquake and tsunami after discovering a leak from he containment vessel of enough radioactive water to fill an Olympic swimming pool. The discovery has forced officials to abandon heir original plan to …
A group of over 25 scientists, bureaucrats and activists released a statement on April 19, demanding transparency in India’s nuclear power programme. The statement was released a day after a clash between policemen and those protesting the proposed nuclear power plant at Jaitapur in Maharashtra. One person was killed and …
Despite repeated assurances that American nuclear plants are better equipped to deal with natural disasters than their counterparts in Japan, regulators said Thursday that recent inspections had found serious problems with some emergency equipment that would have made it unusable in an accident. N.R.C. employees said the agency had insufficiently …
A U.S. task force examining the disaster at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi plant expects to find ways to improve safety at the country's 104 U.S. nuclear plants but has not found any major problems in its first 30 days of work. "To date, the task force has not identified any issues …
Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Tuesday promised a radical review of the total energy policy. The aim was to set right the distortion of a heavy reliance on nuclear power generation, he indicated at a press conference in Tokyo. Mr. Kan said:
Countries using nuclear energy must ensure their reactors are built to withstand multiple disasters after Japan's accident revealed gaps in safety standards, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday. Stronger partnerships must also be forged with the atomic industry to boost safety, he said, noting that nuclear technology can also …
Japanese power firm Chubu Electric on Monday agreed to shut a nuclear plant until it can be better defended against the type of massive tsunami that in March triggered the worst atomic crisis in 25 years. The temporary shutdown of Hamaoka, which supplies power to central Japan -- home to …
The All India Power Engineers' Federation (AIPEF) and the National Confederation of Officers' Associations of Central Public Sector Undertakings (NCOA) have come out strongly against the proposed Jaitapur nuclear power plant. Terming it a
A Japanese power company is leaning towards closing its only nuclear plant as requested by the Prime Minister, the local media said on Sunday, as power cuts loom in the aftermath of an earthquake and tsunami that crippled another plant in the north. Chubu Electric Power Co could make the …
The nuclear disaster at Fukoshima in Japan should not stop us from going ahead with the Jaitapur nuclear plant. It means that our nuclear reactors should not only be quake- resistant, but be able to tolerate a tsunami too, Principal Scientific Adviser to Prime Minister Dr Rajagopala Chidambaram said here …
The European Commission expects to present a "strong draft" for stress testing the 27-member bloc's nuclear power plants, European Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger said on Tuesday. European leaders agreed in March to set the "highest standards" of nuclear safety, in part by subjecting reactors to stress tests, to guard against …
