Unit-II should also attain critical stage by 2014 end

Four years after the radiation leak of cobalt 60 at the Mayapuri scrap yard, there is no way yet to detect radiation in the waste market.

Last year, National Green Tribunal had directed the ministry of environment and forests to install scanners at the gates of the market. But that proposition seemed expensive, so MoEF decided that scrap handlers should keep handheld radiation detectors. But even these have not been procured.

The Supreme Court on Monday sought response from Centre and Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) on implementation of safety guidelines issued by it for Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in Tamil Nad

The Supreme Court on Monday sought response from Centre and Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) on implementation of safety guidelines issued by it for Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in Tamil Nad

The president of Indian Association of Nuclear Chemists and Allied Scientists of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), K. L.

Plea for action against KMML for discharging effluents into waterbodies.

JAIPUR: The deck is cleared for setting up the country's second nuclear fuel complex at Rawatbhata near Kota in Chittorgarh district.

A major hurdle in the way of setting up of a nuclear power plant at Gorakhpur in Fatehabad is over as the Environment Ministry has finally granted a conditional green clearance to the project.

A nuclear power plant proposed to be set up in Haryana is one step short of getting the green clearance with a high-level panel of the environment ministry giving conditional nod.

The decision to recommend green clearance to the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) proposal for setting up a Rs 23,502 crore nuclear power plant in Fatehabad district was taken at a recent meeting of expert appraisal committee on environmental appraisal of nuclear power projects, official sources said.