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 …
A major crisis looms large over the world as Iran flexed its nuclear muscles on Wednesday and the US and the EU nations geared up for tougher sanctions and military solution to tame a defiant Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The development poses a major challenge to India, which relies on substantial import …
In a clear departure from the existing practice of keeping nuclear waste in borosilicate glass containers, the department of atomic energy wants to bury it underground. Atomic Energy Commission chairman Srikumar Banerjee is pushing for setting up an underground laboratory in an existing uranium mine to study the qualities of …
In a first initiative of its kind, India has begun scouting for deep underground sites to store for several decades the nuclear waste generated from its burgeoning atomic power programme. As a first step, the Department of Atomic Energy will set up an underground laboratory in one of its uranium …
The country’s nuclear research programme could get a major fillip with the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre proposing to build two new research reactors under the 12th Five Year Plan. The reactors will be used for testing materials for new power plants, radioisotope production and manpower training, among others. “We have …
Kazakhstan believes the international community's first nuclear fuel bank can be up and running on Kazakh soil by late next year, potentially supporting the Obama administration's broader efforts to combat the spread of nuclear weapons. Kazakhstan is the world's largest producer of uranium ore and has been in consultations with …
The Tummalapalle uranium mine located in YSR district of Andhra Pradesh would be commissioned by early April. The Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) has estimated uranium reserves of the mine at 1.5 lakh tonnes, which are one of the largest in the world. The DAE Spokesperson, Mr S.K. Malhotra, said …
Passengers on an unusual train journeying the through the thick of Punjab polls discuss their ailments afflicting an entire generation. Strangely, for the state's politics, which is as much blinded by materialism as the people there, these problems just don't exist.
At a time when coal and gas shortages have crippled operations at most of India’s thermal stations, a boost in nuclear fuel is set to take atomic power generation to a seven-year record next fiscal. With supplies from a new uranium mine and processing facility at Tummalapalle in Andhra Pradesh …
Talwandi Sabo (Bathinda): Karnail Singh suffers from renal cell carcinoma, a form of kidney cancer. A resident of Jajjal village in Punjab’s Malwa region that has produced maximum number of CMs including SAD’s Parkash Singh Badal and Congress’ Amarinder Singh, Karnail would be expected to have access to considerable medical …
‘Iran is unlikely to decide to dash toward making nuclear weapons as long as its uranium enrichment capability remains as limited as it is today,’ the report said Iran is unlikely to move toward building a nuclear weapon this year because it does not yet have the capability to produce …
The UN atomic agency confirmed on Monday that Iran has started enriching uranium to 20-per cent purity at a new site in a difficult-to-bomb mountain bunker. VIENNA: The UN atomic agency confirmed on Monday that Iran has started enriching uranium to 20-per cent purity at a new site in a …
French major Areva also claims safety of EPRs, but critics not convinced. The evolutionary pressurised reactors (EPRs) that Areva is interested in supplying to the Nuclear Power Corporation (NPC) as part of the proposed Jaitapur nuclear power in Maharashtra will offer 15 per cent savings on uranium per mega-watt produced …
The Obama administration is set to announce on Monday that it will block new uranium mining on one million acres in northern Arizona near the Grand Canyon, lobbyists and Interior Department employees who had been informed about the decision said on Friday. The department, which in 2009 imposed an interim …
Iran has taken steps in recent weeks that bring it closer to launching uranium enrichment deep inside a mountain, diplomatic sources say, a move that would worsen its nuclear confrontation with the West. Iran has said for months that it is preparing to conduct uranium enrichment at Fordow - a …
TIRUNELVELI: Suspecting that work is secretly going on at Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant, PMANE coordinator SP Udayakumar demanded the government to remove uranium fuel from the plant. Koodankulam Struggle Committee members came to the District Collectorate here on Tuesday. As the District Collector was not in the office, they met …
Iranian scientists have produced their first nuclear fuel rod, Iran’s nuclear agency said Sunday, another step despite United Nations sanctions and measures by the United States and others to stop the nation’s atomic work and shut down any possible pathways to weapons production. Iran has long said it is forced …
SHILLONG: The State Government has directed Jaypee Group, which has been entrusted to execute the 450 mega watt Kynshi (stage -II) hydro electric project on Kynshi river, to shift the project 3 km downstream. The Government issued this directive following the Atomic Mineral Division’s (AMD) request to the State Government …
Cites an ‘exhaustive’ survey conducted by govt in affected areas; PTU expert rubbishes claim Disparaging reports linking high prevalence of cancer to brackish water in Malwa belt of Punjab, Chief Secretary SC Agrawal has said a Health Department report had found that there was no link between water and the …
KOLKATA, 15 DEC: Among the many issues Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is expected to discuss with Russian officials while in Moscow this week, is the prospect of India buying a stake in one of Russia’s uranium enrichment plants. If India were to take a 10-20 per cent equity stake in …
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates confirmed Wednesday he is in discussions with China to jointly develop a new and safer kind of nuclear reactor. "The idea is to be very low cost, very safe and generate very little waste," said the billionaire during a talk at China's Ministry of Science and …
