The union environment ministry has given its clearance to the proposed nuclear power plant project in Haripur in West Bengal, Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh said here Wednesday.
Asked about the opposition to the project voiced by United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government partner Trinamool Congress, the minister said: ‘I don’t know [...]
Ji’nan (China), Dec 29 (IANS) China Monday launched the first phase of a nuclear power plant project in the country’s eastern Shandong province, an official said.
Eight nuclear power units with pressurised-water reactors will be built in Haiyang city as part of the project, Xinhua reported.
In the first phase, two units with an installed capacity of [...]
Islamabad, Dec.26 (ANI): The five US origin terror suspects, who were arrested from Sargodha earlier this month, were planning to attack the Chasma Nuclear Power Plant and other strategic establishments in the country, a private television channel has reported.
The Daily Times [...]
Kolkata, Dec 11 (IANS) West Bengal’s ruling Left Front partner, the All India Forward Bloc (AIFB), Friday conceded that the combine has failed to provide the people an alternative livelihood to agriculture despite carrying out comprehensive land reforms during its 32-year stint in power.
‘We have undertaken comprehensive land reforms, but failed to provide the people [...]
Kolkata, Dec 8 (IANS) Union Minister of State for Rural Development Sisir Adhikari Tuesday said his party would oppose the proposal for setting up a nuclear power plant in West Bengal’s Haripur as it is a thickly populated and agriculturally fertile region.
He said the state’s Left Front government had provided wrong information to the centre [...]
Chandigarh, Dec 7 (IANS) Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda Monday flayed Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) chief Om Parkash Chautala for opposing the setting up of a nuclear power plant in the state’s Fatehabad district.
‘Chautala’s statement is baseless; I think that he does not want to solve the problem of power shortage in the [...]
Chandigarh Dec 4 (IANS) With a high-level delegation of the Nuclear Power Corporation (NPC) of India, concluding its visit to Haryana Friday, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda has urged it for fast-tracking 2,800 (4×700) MW nuclear power plant so that it could be set up in the state soon.
Hooda and NPC officials, including its chairman [...]
Chandigarh, Dec 3 (IANS) The proposed nuclear plant in Haryana’s Fatehabad district will be ‘completely safe’, company officials said Thursday.
‘The nuclear power plant would be completely safe,’ Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCI) managing director S.K. Jain said after inspecting the project site in Kumahria, Fatehabad, some 300 km from here.
‘The other 17 [...]
Chandigarh, Dec 3 (IANS) Despite opposing the India-US nuclear deal in July last year, the Akali Dal — now in power in Punjab — has requested the central government to approve a nuclear power plant in the state.
Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal Thursday urged union Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde to advise the state-run [...]
Kaiga, Nov 30 (ANI): Authorities at the Kaiga Nuclear Power Plant on Monday said, they have initiated a probe and sought the assistance of both Central and state intelligence agencies in the investigation.
Addressing a media conference here, Kaiga Power Station Director J P Gupta said: “The investigation [...]
Kolkata, Nov 25 (IANS) Railing against a proposed nuclear power plant in West Bengal’s Haripur, celebrated writer Mahasweta Devi has urged tribals to send five post cards each to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh saying no to the plant.
‘The proposed nuclear power plants in the country are the brainchild of the prime minister. So you have [...]
Washington, November 24 (ANI): In a provoking study, a scientist has argued that global warming might just be unstoppable.
According to Tim Garrett, an associate professor of atmospheric sciences, University of Utah, rising carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions – the major cause of global warming – cannot be stabilized unless the world’s economy collapses or society builds [...]
Baghdad, Nov 23 (DPA) Iraq, reportedly home to the world’s third-largest oil reserves, will seek peaceful nuclear technology from the US, an Iraqi lawmaker said in remarks published Monday.
‘The government seeks to produce and use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes… and to activate the scientific strategic framework agreement with the US,’ Iraqi lawmaker Shahid al-Jabri [...]
Kolkata, Nov 17 (ANI): Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) chairman Anil Kakodkar has said work on India’s nuclear programmes will continue as usual despite media reports of the country’s nuclear power plants being placed on alert and being made more secure to prevent a terror strike.
Talking to reporters here, Kakodkar said: ” The country’s programme [...]
Vienna, Nov 16 (DPA) Iran’s late declaration of a new nuclear site raises the question whether there are other still secret facilities, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Monday in its latest report on the Islamic state.
Iran informed the Vienna-based IAEA in September that it has been constructing an additional uranium enrichment plant in [...]
Bhubaneswar, Sep 20 (IANS) The state-owned National Aluminium Co (Nalco) is focusing on diversification, including setting up a nuclear power plant and moving into other metals, to meet the economic meltdown.
As part of its plans, the company has begun talks with the Nuclear Power Corp of India Ltd (NPCIL) to set up a nuclear power [...]
