National Assembly Energy Committee David Gikaria (R) with member Elisha Odhiambo during their meeting with Safari link at Continental House, Nairobi. [Boniface Okendo/Standard] Participants at the meeting
An angry protest is gathering momentum in Mithi Virdi, a picturesque village in Gujarat’s Bhavnagar district. Four villages have united forces to oppose a nuclear plant coming up in their vicinity. Mithi
The Government of India ratified the Convention on Nuclear Safety on March 31, 2005. This National Report is being submitted by India for review by the Contracting Parties to the 2 nd extraordinary
Production of electricity from the Koodankulam nuclear power plant could start within the next month, according to Minister of State in the PMO, V Narayanasamy. Speaking at the airport, en route to his customary weekend visit to Puducherry on Saturday, Narayanasamy said that the safety committee appointed by the Centre was “almost done” with their inspection.
Tens of thousands of people protested against nuclear power plants outside Japan's parliament on Sunday. The protesters, including pensioners, were pressed up against a wall of steel thrown around the
A government-appointed inquiry into the Fukushima nuclear crisis raised doubts on Monday about whether other nuclear plants were prepared for massive disasters despite new safety rules, and delivered a
Adequate technology and experience are available with the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) and the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) for transporting spent fuel from one location to another by rail and road in a safe manner without any public hazard. This was stated in a note when a batch of petitions relating to the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) came up before a Division Bench of Justices P. Jyothimani and M. Duraisamy for further hearing on Thursday. The note, filed through NPCIL counsel Krishna Srinivasan, stated that at Kudankulam, spent fuel from the reactors would be stored in the spent fuel pool designed for the storage of spent fuel assembly.
The public hearing on the proposed nuclear plant to be set up at Gorakhpur village in Fatehabad district of Haryana which was held by the district administration along with officials and scientists of the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) on Tuesday amid unprecedented security in the village remained “inconclusive”, sources told The Hindu . However, an official spokesman claimed here that senior scientists of NPCIL “succeeded in dispelling fears and misconceptions of the villagers about setting up of the nuclear power plant”.
This video shows the public hearing for environmental clearance of the proposed 2800 MW nuclear power plant at Gorakhpur village in Fatehabad district by Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) on 17 July, 2012 at Sahid-e-Azam Bhagat Singh Stadium in Gorakhpur, Fatehabad, Haryana.
An open forum convened by the Haryana government at Gorakhpur village in Fatehabad district, the venue of proposed nuclear plant in the state, ended abruptly on Tuesday after leaders of opposition parties
Tokyo: The nuclear accident at Fukushima was a manmade disaster rooted in government-industry collusion and the worst conformist conventions of Japanese culture, a high-level parliamentary inquiry concluded
