A public hearing for environmental clearance to the proposed Gorakhpur nuclear power plant in Fatehabad district of Haryana came to an abrupt end today when members of the Opposition INLD led by Ab

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”.

Lucknow Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation’s (UPPCL) chickens have come home to roost. With outstanding dues of R8,636 crore on July 5 — which the corporation says it has reduced to R4,500 crore now — the loss-making UPPCL finds it no longer has enough money to buy power from generating entities in the state.

Normally, these units should be able to sell this power outside the state, but with state-owned dispatch centres often not giving permission to do so, power capacity often gets wasted.

The Environment ImpactAssessment (EIA) report on the nuclear power plant coming up in Haryana was leaked a day ahead of a public hearing to be held at the project site on Tuesday.

There appears to be considerable opposition from the local population to the Nuclear Fuel Complex (NFC) proposed to be set up at Rawatbhata near Kota in Rajasthan. The complex, with an envisaged capacity of 500 tonnes fuel a year, is to cater to the four PHWR (Pressurized heavy water reactors) plants of 700 MWe capacity each coming up by 2016 in Rajasthan and Gujarat. In capacity, the Rawatbhata fuel complex is to be next to only Hyderabad NFC in the country which produces 850 tonnes fuel a year.

A fact-finding team of the People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) has concluded that the no offsite emergency preparedness exercise was held for the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KKNPP), and that the Tirunelveli district administration’s claim that such a drill was successfully done was untrue.

PUCL national secretary V. Suresh told a press conference here on Saturday that what the district authorities conducted in the name of an emergency preparedness exercise at Nakkaneri, a hamlet seven km from KKNPP on June 9, comprising three stages, was mere eyewash.

The State-run Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) clarified here on Friday that all nuclear power reactors at the Rajasthan Atomic Power Station (RAPS) were “safe” and that there was

Two workers at the Rawatbhata Atomic Power Station in Rajasthan have suffered exposure to high doses of radioactive tritium and are under observation.

The incident took place on June 23 at Unit 5 of the plant during routine maintenance work."There was no abnormal release of radioactivity to the environment," Nalinish Nagaich, Executive Director, Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited said from Mumbai.