Serious differences have emerged between the Centre and Telangana Government over uranium explorations in the Amrabad Tiger Reserve, spread across Mahbubnagar and Nalgonda districts in southern part of the state. The state Forest Department has said it will not allow any exploration that interferes with the natural habitat of the …
The Nuclear Power Corporation (NPC) of India is on the look out for uranium mines around the world in order to ensure supplies for nuclear power plants in the country. According to SK Jain, chairman and managing director, NPC, the public sector undertaking will pick up stakes in uranium mines …
SHILLONG, Dec 16: The Synjuk Ki Nongshong Shnong Langrin-Warsanlyngdoh has decided to organize a public awareness rally on uranium mining at Wahkaji on January 13. Supporting the mining of the ore, the Synjuk that comprises of 30 villages in West Khasi Hills which had earlier visited the uranium mining site …
Sandeep Dikshit NEW DELHI: India and Russia on Friday signed agreements that would eliminate the supply-demand mismatch in uranium and enable the setting up of more state-of-the-art nuclear power plants in India. At a summit meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev put the final touches on …
The audit report conducted by the Comptroller and Auditor General on management of fuel for Pressurized Heavy Water Reactors (PHWRs). DAE has been blamed for being unable to exploit the country
As Of Nov, Tehran In Possession Of 630Kg Of Uranium, Says IAEA William J Broad & David E Sanger Iran has now produced roughly enough nuclear material to make, with added purification, a single atom bomb, according to nuclear experts analyzing the latest report from global atomic inspectors. The figures …
BHP Billiton Ltd says it wants to develop one of Australia's largest untapped uranium deposits, after the state government where the deposit is located lifted a ban on mining the nuclear power feedstock. The 10-kilometre-long (6 miles) Yeelirrie deposit, located about 1,000 km north of Perth in west Australia, is …
A member of Medical Association for Prevention of War, Australia, Tilman Alfred Ruff today visited Dungridih village in East Singhbhum that witnessed spilling of radioactive waste due to a leakage in the pipeline that carries it to the tailing pond of Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL). Ruff, who is …
Never before was the stakes involved behind a village fishing competition so high anywhere. It was a whopping Rs 1,000 crore in this case! One hundred seven fishermen and villagers from distant villages from around Mawthabah, West Khasi Hills district dropped their lines on river Phodphra in the fishing competition. …
Shillong: The Langrin Youth Welfare Association (LYWA) has refuted claims of the Synjuk Ki Nongshong Shnong Langrin and Warsan Lyngdoh Area that majority of the villages near the proposed uranium-mining project are supporting the project. In a statement issued here on Friday, LYWA president BS Lyngdoh while expressing surprise at …
SHILLONG, Nov 11: A twenty-member team of the Synjuk Ki Nongshong Shnong of West Khasi Hills supporting uranium mining in the State met Chief Minister Dr Donkupar Roy today asking him to approve the uranium project at Kylleng Pyndeng Sohiong in the district and to unlock the doors of opportunities …
Aizawl, Nov 5: Two uranium smugglers who were on their way to Myanmar have been arrested from a hotel in Mizoram, security officials said here on Tuesday. Paramilitary Assam Rifles troopers along with Mizoram Police during a joint raid on Monday caught the duo at a hotel in Champai, 112 …
SHILLONG, Nov 4: With its support to the proposed uranium mining project at Mawthabah, twenty members of a West Khasi Hills-based NGO on Tuesday left for Jadugoda to substantiate their claims that
MUMBAI: As part of India's strategic programme, the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) has developed fourth generation uranium enrichment gas centrifuges with an output of more than 10 times the earlier design, a top BARC official has said. "An experimental cascade of the fourth generation design is in operation at …
A government-appointed expert panel has allayed fears of health hazard expressed by individuals and organizations in Meghalaya over the proposed uranium mining project in the State.
