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The Tamil Nadu Cabinet on Monday gave its nod to commissioning of the Kudankulam nuclear power plant. The Chief Minister, Ms J. Jayalalithaa, announced this after chairing the meeting with her Cabinet colleagues. Work on the 2,000-MW atomic power plant, which started in 2001, has been stalled because of public …
We are dismayed and pained at the government’s campaign of vilification of the sustained popular movement against the Koodankulam nuclear plant, which has raised vital issues of atomic safety. (Letters)
Small tsunami waves hit Japan’s northeastern coastline today, officials said, after a strong earthquake rocked the region a year on from the country’s worst post-war natural disaster. The 6.9-magtinude quake struck 26.6 km below the seabed off the northern island of Hokkaido in the Pacific, the US Geological Survey said. …
A minor tsunami hit Japan's northeastern coastline today after a strong earthquake rocked the region nearly a year on from Japan's worst post-war natural disaster. The 10-centimetre wave and 6.8 magnitude quake, which struck some 210 kilometres off the northern island of Hokkaido, prompted local authorities to issue an evacuation …
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.1 hit east of Tokyo on Wednesday but no tsunami warning was issued and there were no initial reports of damage or troubles at area nuclear plants, the Japan Meteorological Agency and local media said. The earthquake, which caused substantial shaking in Ibaragi …
Eighty percent of the world's nuclear power plants are more than 20 years old, raising safety concerns, a draft U.N. report says a year after Japan's Fukushima disaster. Many operators have begun programs, or expressed their intention, to run reactors beyond their planned design lifetimes, said the International Atomic Energy …
As many as 12 of Britain's 19 civil nuclear sites are at risk of flooding and coastal erosion because of climate change, according to an unpublished government analysis obtained by the Guardian . Nine of the sites have been assessed by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) …
New Delhi: President Pratibha Patil in her final address to the joint session of Parliament on Monday chose to focus on the government’s social welfare agenda and India’s diplomatic ties with its neighbours while making on a brief reference to corruption. Patil, who spoke for over 65 minutes, expressed confidence …
The government today said there will be no compromise on nuclear safety or livelihood of any section of society in India's pursuit of atomic power, a statement that comes against the backdrop of anti-nuclear protests in Kudankulam and Jaitapur. Addressing a joint sitting of Parliament, President Pratibha Patil asserted that …
Villagers opposing the 10,000 MW Jaitapur nuclear power project in Maharashtra's Ratnagiri district have decided to launch an economic non-cooperation movement against Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd. About 4,000 locals participated in a protest rally from Ratnagiri to Jaitapur on Sunday. About 700 of them signed a pledge that …
MUMBAI: The anti-Jaitapur nuclear plant pitch rose a notch higher on Sunday with demonstrations and rallies against the nuclear power plant being held at a number of places across the state. To mark the first year of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, demonstrations against Jaitapur project and other nuclear …
Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann expects petition drives to start in at least six European Union members this year with the goal of having the EU abandon nuclear power, he said in a newspaper interview. Under the EU’s Lisbon Treaty, petitions that attract at least one million signatures can seek legislative …
The cabinet has approved the proposal to ratify a deal for setting up Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant in Pabna in cooperation with the Russian government on Monday. Under the contract, Russia will extend all necessary supports for setting up the plant and supply nuclear fuel for the entire life of …
From the safety of a computer screen in the control room, I can see a robot scoop up a chunk of asbestos from the reactor floor. I am at Sellafield, the nuclear complex on the coast of Cumbria in north-west England, watching remotely controlled machinery crawl through the defunct Windscale …
Fatehabad: To mark the first anniversary of nuclear disaster in Fukushima (Japan) and to pay homage to three farmers who lost their lives during their 579-day stir, farmers agitating against the acquisition of their land for the Gorakhpur Atomic Power Plant today observed a fast at the dharna site. Farmers …
Forum for government to respect sentiments of local people The newly floated Anti-Nuke Teachers' Forum here on Saturday evening has urged the Centre to convert the Kudankulan Nuclear Power Project nuclear reactors into natural gas-based power generation units as it was done at Shoreham nuclear power plant in the United …
Calls upon State to stand by Centre in its efforts to make project functional Union Minister for Shipping G.K. Vasan has called upon the State government to keep the anti-Kudankulam nuclear power project activists under check. Unveiling the bronze statue of veteran Dalit leader and former president of Tamil Nadu …
Regulators on Friday told the owners of the nation's nuclear reactors to implement new safety rules based on the lessons learned from the earthquake and tsunami that crippled Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant a year ago. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) said it authorized its staff to issue three immediately …
Nuclear power is safer than it was a year ago when a series of disasters at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant left 19,000 people dead or missing, the U.N. atomic energy chief said on Friday, but Greenpeace said no lessons had been learnt. In a statement issued ahead of Sunday's first …
