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The safety of people and environment has always been the priority of the nuclear industry, stressed M. Kashinath Balaji, Director of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project, here on Thursday. He was inaugurating an interactive session, ‘National summit on nuclear safety' organised in connection with Conjura-12, the annual technical and cultural festival …
Nuclear energy still has a role in India, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said as he appeared to blame some US-based NGOs for difficulties at the Kudankulam nuclear plant. “Yes, where India is concerned, yes. The thinking segment of our population certainly is supportive of nuclear energy,” he said. He …
Pressure is mounting on the Indian government to commission the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) at the earliest. Officials of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) carried out an inspection of the KNPP on Monday in order to ensure that the nuclear fuel kept in the storage room was not …
Senior official hopes to commission the first unit by August There finally seems to be some light at the end of the tunnel with regard to the Kudankulam nuclear power plant in Tamil Nadu. A senior official of the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited on Wednesday expressed confidence that …
Even as the group protesting Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) upped the ante, the department of atomic energy (DAE) announced Tuesday it would add two more reactors to Kalpakkam Nuclear Plant in an effort to bridge the energy demand-supply gap. The 500 MW fast-breeder reactors would have additional safety systems …
Protest against the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP) has once again intensified with the new Tamil Nadu panel of experts claimed that the plant was safe and gave enough indication that the State would like to go ahead to help commissioning the plant. The People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE)-led …
CHENNAI: A two-member team from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) carried out a detailed inspection at Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) even as the anti-plant protesters announced a 72-hour fast from Monday to protest a clean chit by a state government panel. "The two member IAEA team is carrying …
While the plan to set up a nuclear power plant at Chutka in Mandla district is yet to take shape, the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd ( NPCIL) has identified another site in the state to establish one more plant. 'Madhya Pradesh has the capacity to house more than …
The four-member committee set up by the Tamil Nadu government on Sunday virtually gave a clean chit to the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP), saying it was well-equipped to withstand natural calamities, be it earthquake or tsunami. Emerging from the two-hour long talks with members of People’s Movement Against Nuclear …
TIRUNELVELI: The four-member committee set up by Tamil Nadu Government today virtually gave a clean chit to the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KKNPP), saying it was well-equipped to withstand natural calamities, be it earthquake or tsunami. Emerging from the two-hour long talks with members of People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy …
A five-member Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) team, which has camped at Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project's Anu Vijay Township for the past five days, is unable to enter the KKNPP site for carrying out mandatory inspection due to the anti-nuke group's ban imposed on the movement of men and material …
CHENNAI: In a fresh attempt to break the impasse over commissioning of the nuclear power plant at Koodankulam, the state government-appointed expert panel will meet protesters and other stakeholders on Saturday. This was decided by panel members after a meeting on Friday. The four members of the new committee, which …
CHENNAI: The four-member experts committee formed by the Tamil Nadu government held its first meeting on Friday and called on Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa at the Secretariat ahead of their visit to Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant and to meet the protestors on Saturday. Prof S Iniyan, convenor of the committee, …
Environmental and clean energy groups filed a lawsuit on Thursday in federal court to block the building of the first nuclear power plant in the United States in more than 30 years. The groups say designs for the plant, in Waynesboro, Ga., do not sufficiently account for safety, environmental or …
The four-member expert committee set up by the Tamil Nadu government to look into the people’s concerns about Koodankulam nuclear power project will meet in the city on Friday. The team is expected to start its work soon and submit its report to the state government. Sources say the team …
More than 2,000 people attached to 15 associations in Tiruchengode took a massive procession on Wednesday urging the State Government to start electricity generation at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP) without delay to put an end to the severe power shortage that has badly affected the motor, lorry body …
All safety measures according to international standards are ensured before opening nuclear power plants in the country, S.S. Bajaj, chairman of the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB), has said. In his inaugural address at the national seminar and awareness programme on societal benefits of radioisotopes and radiation technology held at …
In surprisingly frank public testimony on Wednesday, Japan’s nuclear safety chief said the country’s regulations were fundamentally flawed and laid out a somber picture of a nuclear industry shaped by freewheeling power companies, toothless regulators and a government more interested in promoting nuclear energy than in safeguarding the health of …
Despite being dotted with industries, Gujarat's rich coastline is plagued by voices of dissent. Coastal communities have of late realised that the fruits of industrialisation were either too sour, or not for them at all.
Clearly irked by the uncertainty surrounding the Koodankulam nuclear power plant that it is helping India to build, Russia on Tuesday warned that it would have to consider redeploying the scientists and technicians, who are now stuck at the plant premises without any work, if the ground situation does not …
