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 …
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 …
Status update at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and radiation monitoring data in India – 21-April-2011. http://www.dae.gov.in/daiichi/japan210411.pdf
ParisIn the inbox of Petr Zavodsky, director of nuclear power plant construction at Czech power group CEZ are three sets of proposals from American, French and Russian consortiums, all angling for a $30-billion contract to build five new reactors. State-owned CEZ, central Europe
The Japan Tokyo, April 19: The Japanese government on Tuesday urged local authorities, businesses and citizens not to discriminate against evacuees from the area around the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. The call came after some evacuation centres demanded radiation-free certificates from people who lived near the plant, and following reports …
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 …
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 …
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.
In a boost to Indian efforts at obtaining a permanent seat in the UN Security Council, the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) group on Thursday for the first time called for
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 …
India's nuclear plants may soon get some additional safety features, including more provisions to add water to the reactors to deal with over heating of the core, a condition that led to the Fukushima nuclear accident. The measures are part of six recommendations made by four separate task forces set …
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 …
THE slow-moving disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan that is spreading a cloud of anxiety across the world has forced most nations to either suspend or review their nuclear power programmes—but not India. In the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami that struck the huge Daiichi power complex …
Two major events happening at two ends of the world—Japan’s natural disaster and nuclear fallout and unrest in Libya and other countries of the region—have one thing in common. Energy. The fallout from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, hit by earthquake and then the tsunami, has not yet been contained. …
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
Manmohan, Medvedev express satisfaction at the development in the relationship India and Russia will review safety issues with regard to their ongoing nuclear cooperation programme in the light of the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident in Japan. If necessary, additional features would be incorporated in the two Russian-origin nuclear plants …
