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Economic Times
April 29, 2018
Some critics of the project, like Raut, also raise an alarm over the proximity of the refinery to the Jaitapur nuclear power project, 15 km away. But Ashok says there are no safety concerns. The Jaitapur project, dating back to 2009, has also been plagued by controversy and construction is yet to begin.
BGR India
April 29, 2018
Akademik Lomonosov, the world's first “floating” nuclear power plant (FNPP) for installation in remote areas, has headed out on its first sea voyage from this Baltic shipyard here, Russian state-run atomic energy corporation Rosatom said on Saturday. A statement said the FNPP was towed out of the St.
Energy Sector News in India
April 28, 2018
The share of nuclear power generation was about 3.4% in India in the calendar year 2016. The corresponding share in United States of America and Germany was about 19.7% and 13.1% respectively. The share of nuclear power generation is country specific and depends on other sources of electricityÃâà...
Energy Collective
April 11, 2018
While the Department of Atomic Energy did not specify the reasons for the change, it is likely that India has come face-to-face with the same reality that other developing nations seeking rapid construction of nuclear power plants. The challenges are the lack of funding, a reliable supply chain that can handleÃâà...
Fox5NY
April 10, 2018
NEW YORK (FOX5NY.COM) - When a nuclear power plant is in your neighborhood, you tend to know it. The first Indian Point reactor opened in 1962 and despite one of the best safety records in the country, it was a target. Gov. Andrew Cuomo has called it a "ticking time bomb." Indian Point will stop tickingÃâà...
Firstpost
April 9, 2018
Mumbai: Reliance Infrastructure has received a Rs 1,081 crore purchase order from Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) for engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for Common Services System, Structure & Components (SSC) package and allied civil works of Unit -3 andÃâà...
The Telegraph India
April 6, 2018
Patna: Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited has offered to establish two nuclear power reactors in Nawada district in Bihar at an estimated cost of Rs 70,000 crore. The state government has earmarked 1,000 acres of land for the central government enterprise. "We have demarcated 1,000 acres ofÃâà...
Xinhua
April 1, 2018
by Pankaj Yadav. NEW DELHI, April 2 (Xinhua) -- India has 22 nuclear power plants with a power generation capacity of 6,780 megawatts. Majority of them are spread in southern states of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, and western states of Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharashtra. No doubt, power supplyÃâà...
InsideSources
March 30, 2018
“While the U.S. currently leads the world in the number of operable nuclear reactors, and has since the beginning of the civilian nuclear power age,” writes Gattie, “China, Russia and India, each, are outpacing the U.S. in the total number of nuclear plants under construction, planned or proposed.” China hasÃâà...
Times of India
March 30, 2018
CHENNAI: Researchers working in different institutions supported by the central government's Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) have published as many as 6,214 papers in reputed journals in the last three years -- nearly twice the number compared to those from the US. These research papers coveredÃâà...
Scroll.in
March 30, 2018
Wider concerns about safety and lack of water (of which nuclear power plants demands a huge amount) also play a part. The tribulations of China's nuclear industry should be of interest to South Asian countries like India and Pakistan that harbour their own nuclear ambitions, often for similar reasons thatÃâà...
The Examiner News
March 28, 2018
One of the two operating Indian Point nuclear power plants in the Village of Buchanan received its last fill-up of fuel last week. Control room operators shut down Unit 2 to begin the 23rd and final scheduled refueling and maintenance outage for the generating unit, which has powered New York City and theÃâà...
Voice of America
March 10, 2018
India and France pledged Saturday to work together to ensure freedom of navigation in the Indian Ocean and signed an agreement to expedite construction of a major nuclear power plant in India by a French company. After talks with French President Emmanuel Macron in New Delhi, Indian Prime MinisterÃâà...
Truth-Out
March 9, 2018
He will land in India on March 11, the seven-year anniversary of the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster in Japan. Ironically, just a few days later, former Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan, now an outspoken critic against nuclear energy, will be at the Flamanville European PressurizedÃâà...
Daily News & Analysis
March 9, 2018
Rupani said, "It is as simple as I say that nuclear power plant at Mithi Virdi has not started and will never come up in future too. After Tsunami in Japan and reports of leakage in nuclear reactor there, the fear prevailed in India too where six nuclear power plants were to be set up with the cooperation of aÃâà...
CleanTechnica
March 9, 2018
Miller also has little to say about research reactor programs and their connections to both nuclear power and weapons. Yet that is an important part of the story. To give one example: India's first nuclear weapon test used plutonium produced in the CIRUS (Canada‒India-Reactor-United-States) researchÃâà...
ETEnergyworld.com
March 8, 2018
India's nuclear fuel production to rise 10-fold in 15 years: Government ... "As per the vision plan prepared in order to fulfil the requirement of uranium to fuel nuclear power plants, the DAE will achieve nearly ten-fold rise in uranium production in next 15 years ... India has 22 operating nuclear power plants.
Economic and Political Weekly
March 8, 2018
The development of nuclear power generation in India is proposed to be enhanced with international cooperation, for sourcing fuel and setting up commercial nuclear power plants. The cost of power produced at such plants is examined. The levelised cost of electricity for light water reactor technology inÃâà...
World Nuclear News
March 6, 2018
In February 2006 the Vietnamese government announced that a 2000 MWe nuclear power plant should be on line by 2020. This general target was confirmed in a nuclear power development plan approved by the government in August 2007, with the target being raised to a total of 8000 MWe nuclear byÃâà...
Energy Bangla
March 4, 2018
Indian nuclear experts see the tripartite agreement between India, Russia and Bangladesh to cooperate for the construction of the Rooppur Nuclear power Plant as a start in the right direction and contend that it would strengthen India's case for entry into Nuclear Suppliers' Group (NSG) as well. BangladeshÃâà...
India Today
March 2, 2018
New Delhi, Mar 1 (PTI) Indian companies can now participate in construction and installation works in the "non-critical" category for the Rooppur nuclear power plant in Bangladesh, Russian atomic energy agency Rosatom said today. The Rooppur project is the first initiative under an Indo-Russian deal toÃâà...
Economic Times
March 2, 2018
Nuclear Power Cooperation of India Limited (NPCIL) will play a key role in building a nuclear power plant on foreign soil with the proposed supply of equipment and material for the power station being built by Russia in Bangladesh. India is also extending support for capacity building and has been trainingÃâà...
Times of India
February 21, 2018
Mumbai,Feb 21 () Anil Kakodkar, a former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, today pitched for subsidising nuclear energy so that it competes with low-cost solar power. "Nuclear is also carbon-free, it is sustainable. I think nuclear should also be eligible for that kind of subsidy (enjoyed by solarÃâà...
The Indian Express
February 6, 2018
Officials of Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL), which runs the country's nuclear power plants, said the other reactors — KGS 1 to 4 at Kaiga, Karnataka, MAPS 1 and 2 at Kalpakkam, Tamil Nadu, and TAPS 3 and 4 at Tarapur, Maharashtra — continue to use uranium sourced within the country.
Daily News & Analysis
December 31, 1999
The Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd today told the Supreme Court that the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant has advanced safety features and it was designed to withstand earthquakes and other such threats. The NPCIL made the submissions before a bench headed by Chief Justice of India DipakÃâà...
Financial Express
December 31, 1999
India and France are likely to sign a framework agreement for expediting the Jaitapur nuclear power plant project during French President Emmanuel Macron's visit next month, sources from the Indian side have said. The six-reactor project with a capacity of 1650-MW each will be the largest nuclear powerÃâà...
Economic Times
December 31, 1999
Special Research Institute for Instrument Manufacturing (SNIIP) is the institute developing and manufacturing instruments and systems to ensure nuclear and radiation safety at all nuclear facilities built by Russian state nuclear power corporation Rosatom for the last five decades. With Russia being the onlyÃâà...
