New Delhi: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Monday urged New Delhi to provide Rs 300 crore separately to build basic infrastructure for people living around the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP), stressing on her government's efforts in ending the anti-plant protests. "It will not be proper for the government to meet the commitment of Rs 300 crore towards this by adjusting the fund into the state's already entitled...
08:21 PM, Jun 04, 2012
Berlin: German solar power plants produced a world record 22 gigawatts of electricity per hour - equal to 20 nuclear power stations at full capacity - through the midday hours on Friday and Saturday, the head of a renewable energy think tank said. The German government decided to abandon nuclear power after the Fukushima nuclear disaster last year, closing eight plants immediately and shutting down the remaining nine by 2022....
07:18 AM, May 27, 2012
Mumbai: There was no accident at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP) as has been made out in some quarters, the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) asserted on Tuesday. N. Nagaich, Executive Director (Corporate Planning & Communications), said in a statement that some miscreants have been spreading rumours through SMSs of an accident having taken place at the plant. The messages said that a boiler burst at the...
04:49 PM, May 08, 2012
TIRUNELVELI: The second unit of the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant Project (KKNPP) may become operational by year-end, hinted Atomic Energy Commission chairman and Department of Atomic Energy secretary Srikumar Banerjee. Banerjee, who addressed presspersons along with Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) managing director S K Jain at the KKNPP site on Thursday, said that with the cooperation of the Tamil Nadu government, work at Unit-1 and Unit-2 was...
09:35 AM, Apr 27, 2012
Vadodara: Gujarat government is hopeful of generating 3650 MW of power through joint synergy of hydroelectric and solar-based projects in future. The six power units of the Sardar Sarovar project are currently generating 1450 MW hydroelectric power whereas the total length of the canal network intrlinked to the project in the state is 85,000 km. "Even if 10 percent of the existing canal network is utilised for setting up solar...
04:24 AM, Apr 25, 2012
Chennai: Upset with the Tamil Nadu government for going back on its assurances, the People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) on Monday announced that it would resume an indefinite hunger strike from May 1 against the two 1,000 MW plants at Kudankulam. "We have decided to go on hunger protest once again from May 1 onwards as the state government has gone against its assurances given to us. A large...
12:00 PM, Apr 23, 2012
Kudankulam: Extending support to the agitation against the anti-Kudankulam nuclear power plant, social activist Swami Agnivesh on Wednesday said government has to decide on scrapping the project and protecting people. He claimed that the Archbiship of Thiruvanathapuram Susai Packiam, would visit Kudankulam next week, to extend support to the People's Movement against Nuclear energy spearheading the stir against KNPP at Idinthakarai near Kudankulam. He also claimed that CPI-M leader V...
11:19 PM, Apr 11, 2012
Chennai: DMK chief M Karunanidhi on Tuesday termed Sri Lanka's objections to the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in Tamil Nadu as 'unacceptable'. "The Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant did not start yesterday; it has been there for a long time. Today, if Lanka raises doubts about Kudankulam, it is not acceptable. I don't have to tell what the Central government has to do, I'm sure they'll act accordingly," Karunanidhi said. Karunanidhi's...
12:17 PM, Apr 10, 2012
New Delhi: Sri Lanka has threatened to go to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) claiming it is threatened by the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in Tamil Nadu. Colombo has said that it is concerned about safety in case of a Fukushima-like disaster that may hurt the Island nation. The official raising of concern with the International Atomic Energy is to be made in September, the power and energy minister...
10:00 AM, Apr 10, 2012
Chennai: Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Saturday requested Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to allot all the power (2,000 mw) to be generated at Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KKNPP) to Tamil Nadu, to tide over the severe power shortage prevailing in the State. "I hope this request will be positively considered by you. May I also reiterate that we require and deserve this power," the CM said in her letter to...
09:24 PM, Apr 01, 2012
Chennai: After giving green signal to the Kudankulam nuclear power plant, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Saturday demanded that the entire 2000 MW power to be generated by its two units be given to the state in view of the "severe power shortage." In a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, she said it would be "proper and justifiable that the entire power to be generated from the Koodankulam...
12:33 PM, Mar 31, 2012
New Delhi: Seeking to address concerns in Russia over cancellation of 2G licence involving telecom company Sistema, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday assured President Dmitry Medvedev that the Government is making efforts to ensure safety of foreign investments in the country. Singh and Medvedev reviewed the progress of Russia-built Kudankulam nuclear plant in Tamil Nadu, work on which was stuck for the past over six months due to protests,...
09:38 PM, Mar 29, 2012
Chennai: Betting on Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant to bring some immediate relief to the power-shortage hit state, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Thursday said it was expected to go on stream in another two months, as she charged DMK with doing little to enhance capacity in its entire term. Her statement on Kudankulam came nearly 10 days after her cabinet gave the go ahead for the controversial Indo-Russian...
06:04 PM, Mar 29, 2012
CHENNAI: Fuel loading, a crucial step towards commissioning the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant, will done in a month or two, a senior official of the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd said here on Tuesday. The plant is now fully ready to take the fuel, Shiv Abhilash Bhardwaj, Director (Technical), NPCIL, told reporters at IIT Madras.The plant was gearing up for fuel loading when the protests stopped works in October....
08:43 AM, Mar 28, 2012
Tirunelveli: Anti-nuclear activists, spearheaded by SP Udaya Kumar, on Tuesday called off their 9-day- old fast launched by them after Tamil Nadu government gave the go-ahead for the controversial Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant. Udaya Kumar's decision came hours after a delegation of his supporters met senior district administration officials who assured them that their charter of demands would be conveyed to the government for consideration. "The officials promised to look...
09:09 PM, Mar 27, 2012
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