in the upcoming 9,900 MW Jaitapur nuclear power project in the coastal Ratnagiri district, NPCIL is planning to line up a number of sops for the land losers.
Work on NPCIL Haripur project to start in 2014 Business Standard, Kolkata March 3, 2011, Amid controversies surrounding the proposed nuclear power plant at Haripur in West Bengal, the Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) has said that work on the project will start by 2014.The environmental evaluation process is expected to be over by 2012 and the land acquisition will kick off only after that. Continue reading →
March 3, 2011
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Chavan was greeted by slogan-shouting women from Sakhrinate village during his interaction with people. The local outfits like Janhit Seva Samitee from Madban village and the fishermen from Sakrinate village asked the chief minister to scrap the project.
Scrap Jaitapur nuclear power project, locals tell Prithviraj Chavan, – Mumbai – DNA Feb 26, 2011, Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan, who visited the proposed Jaitapur nuclear project site here, today witnessed stiff resistance from the local people who are opposing the 9,900mw power plant. Continue reading →
March 1, 2011
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“How could he say that the villagers genuinely fighting for their land and raising their voices are outsiders?
‘How can Jaitapur villagers be outsiders? – Hindustan Times, 28 Feb 2011, Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray came down heavily on chief minister Prithviraj Chavan on his ‘outsiders’ comment he made at Jaitapur on Saturday. Continue reading →
March 1, 2011
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“The project is being imposed on villagers even though over 90% people are against it.”….protestors were being tried in false cases. Another local said water pumps which were being to draw water in one of the villages were severed a few days back. Pravin Gavankar, a local activist, claimed that, “Over 191 people had been subjected to preventive arrests
Jaitapur won’t relent, The Times of India, Sandeep Ashar, TNN, Feb 26, 2011, MUMBAI: Opposition from local villagers to the Jaitapur nuclear power plant is unlikely to recede even as chief minister Prithviraj Chavan visits the site on Saturday. Despite efforts by the government to win support of the locals for the project, most villagers are united in their demand for its cancellation…… Continue reading →
February 27, 2011
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Renewable energy finds many takers; vies with fossil fuel: Exim Bank Announcement Business Standard, February 18, 2011The new world order in the age of energy security is projected to be renewable, shows a trend Continue reading →
February 19, 2011
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British civil nuclear power delegation to visit India, IBN Live News Mumbai, Feb 17 (PTI) A civil nuclear power trade delegation of eight leading UK-based companies, coordinated by the UK Nuclear Industry Association (NIA), will be visiting India next week. Continue reading →
February 19, 2011
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Indian delegation in Canada to explore nuclear business opportunities, The Hindu , 18 Feb 2011, A high-powered Indian business delegation led by Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) Associate Director F. Vohra arrived here today to accelerate bilateral investment and the transfer of technology in the field of nuclear energy between the two countries…… The Hindu : Business / Industry : Indian delegation in Canada to explore nuclear business opportunities
February 19, 2011
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The cost estimate, however, does not include fuel or maintenance costs, storage of hundreds of tonnes of the nuclear waste generated annually; also the cost of reactor decommissioning, which could amount to one-third to one-half of the construction cost. It also does not include the extensive additional physical security costs,
Power from Jaitapur nuclear plant won’t come cheap , Feb 14, 2011, By Alok Deshpande Mumbai DNA The electricity generated from the proposed 9,900 MW Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project (JNPP) will be double, even triple the cost of electricity from coal- or gas-fired plants, according to a report. Continue reading →
February 15, 2011
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“Developing indigenous renewable energy sources, which have low marginal costs of generation, are more economically viable in the long run,” the study –Potential of Renewable Energy in India — said…….
India can generate 68,000 MW power from renewable sources: WB, The Economic Times, 11 Feb, 2011, NEW DELHI: The World Bank today said 68,000 MW of power costing less than Rs 6 per unit can be generated from renewable energy sources, which can play an important role in increasing India’s energy security. Continue reading →
February 12, 2011
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Jaitapur’s people are more concerned about being treated as sub-humans by the state, which has unleashed savage repression, including hundreds of arrests, illegal detentions and orders prohibiting peaceful assemblies. Eminent citizens keen to express solidarity with protesters were banned, including a former supreme court judge, the Communist party’s secretary and a former Navy chief. Gadgil too was prevented. A former high court judge was detained illegally for five days. Worse, a Maharashtra minister recently threatened that “outsiders” who visit Jaitapur wouldn’t be “allowed to come out” (alive).
This hasn’t broken the people’s resolve or resistance.
The truth behind India’s nuclear renaissance Jaitapur’s French-built nuclear plant is a disaster in waiting, jeopardising biodiversity and local livelihoods Praful Bidwai guardian.co.uk, 8 February 2011 The global “nuclear renaissance” touted a decade ago has not materialised. Continue reading →
February 10, 2011
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The state has unleashed savage repression on Jaitapur’s people. It routinely arrests and serves externment notices to peaceful protesters, and promulgates prohibitory orders, under which eminent citizens like former Navy chief L. Ramdas and former Supreme Court judge P.B. Sawant were barred from Jaitapur, and former Bombay High Court judge B.G. Kolse-Patil was detained for five days without being produced before a magistrate within 24 hours. Others have had false charges framed against them,
Nuclear trouble in Maharashtra, The Daily Star, 3 Feb 2011, Praful Bidwai Continue reading →
February 3, 2011
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The deal between the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) and Areva reflects a bonhomie between Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh and French president Nicolas Sarkozy at the cost of Indian people and the economy. Dr Singh actually came to the rescue of the problem-stricken French nuclear industry. Apart from the tariff structure, which is a very contentious issue, silence about the safety-related expenditure aggravates the suspicion.Transparency is, historically, a casualty in the nuclear energy arena.
Cost uncertainty dogs the Jaitapur nuclear project – Mumbai – DNA, Sankar Ray , February 3, 2011 Forget about the highly questionable technology for the proposed 1,650 megawatt nuclear power plant at Jaitapur in Ratnagiri district from the French power major Areva, or even the objections of the Finnish environmental watchdog body STUK for the Olkiluoto plant, which is being replicated at Jaitapur.The fact is that nothing can prevent time overruns and, therefore, cost escalation. To date, no nuclear power project has been implemented on schedule. Continue reading →
February 3, 2011
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Globally, nuclear power has exhausted its technological potential. It has a bleak future. India must stop chasing the nuclear mirage — and scrap Jaitapur!
Nuclear trouble in Maharashtra, The Daily Star, 3 Feb 2011, Praful Bidwai“…….The Jaitapur public should fear EPRs. Western Europe’s first reactor after Chernobyl, an EPR, under construction in Finland, is delayed by four years and 90% over budget.Finnish, French, British and US nuclear regulators have raised 3,000 safety issues about its design, including control and emergency-cooling systems. Given its size, the EPR will generate seven times more toxic iodine-129 than normal reactors, posing many other problems.Any design changes will add to the EPR’s capital costs, already two to five times higher than for power from other sources. Its unit power cost will be two to four times higher. Continue reading →
February 3, 2011
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the DSP case is not the first time that there has been an accident involving radioactive material in India. Some incidents have received press attention and are widely known; others are not……there have been 16 cases of loss, theft or misplacement of radioactive sources across India since 2001, in which radioactive material found its way into the environment. In 11 of these incidents, the source was never found.
Radioactive theft material in India alarms US, IAEA, The Daily Mail , 28 Jan 2011, Christina Palmer & Ajay Mehta NEW DELHI – The US nuclear experts and the officials of IAEA are much alarmed over the constant cases of radioactive material from a number of defence and civilian nuclear facilities across India Continue reading →
January 28, 2011
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[India] recently bowled the global nuclear power industry – and possibly itself – an unexpected googly by adopting a civil nuclear liability law that will hold suppliers liable for any accident for up to 80 years after a plant’s construction…..Many countries with nuclear power industries channel potential liability in case of an accident to operators. India’s very different law has sent nuclear companies into a spin.
Nuclear industry: Government bowls sector a surprise googly, By Amy Kazmin New Delhi January 26 2011 “…..International suppliers – including GE, Westinghouse, Bechtel, Russia’s Rosatom, France’s Areva, and Japan’s Toshiba, Hitachi and Mitsubishi – are all eyeing lucrative opportunities, …… Continue reading →
January 27, 2011
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