The Punjab Energy Development Agency has released a draft green hydrogen policy aiming to achieve a green hydrogen and ammonia production capacity of 100 kilo tonnes per annum by 2030. The policy proposes extending incentives under the existing “Punjab Industrial and Business Development Policy 2022” to new green hydrogen and …
Radioactive iodine 131 gas at a concentration double that set by the Science and Technology Agency was found to be escaping from exhaust ducts at the JCO Co. Uranium reconversion plant in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture, it was learned Monday. The plant was the site of the nation's worst nuclear accident …
NPC : There was no radiation leakage at the Narora Atomic Power Station (NAPS) where human error caused one containment door in the reactor building to come off its hinges recently, forcing authorities to shut down the plant, a Nuclear Power Corporation official Mr. M. Das said.
The Galileo space probe, in a do-or-die effort, came within 612 km of Jupiter's volcanic moon on Sunday in a splendid finale to its four-years mission. The intense radiation emanating from the moon risked crippling the spacecraft's computers and guidance systems, but an hour after the craft had its closest …
Japan's worst ever nuclear accident was caused more by the private operator's failure to follow official regulations than lax oversight by the Government, a top nuclear official Kaoru Mamiya said.
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (ONGC) is in the process of finalising the policy paper outlining a clear-cut programme for undertaking overseas oil exploration activities by it and its subsidiary, ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL).
42% oppose nuclear energy push : Forty-two percent of respondents to an Asahi Shimbun survey said they oppose the promotion of the use of nuclear power for electricity. The nationwide telephone poll, conducted on Friday and Saturday, followed last month's nuclear accident at the uranium-processing plant in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture. …
Multilateral financial institutions have funded the power sector to the tune of Rs. 4,012 crores during fiscal 1998-99, up from Rs. 3,868.26 crores during 1997-98, thus reflecting a marginal 3.7 per cent rise.
The Government of India has prepared a model amendment to the building byelaws which, if adopted by municipal corporations, will make it mandatory for all new buildings - residential or commercial - to have solar water heating systems installed. This byelaw is being circulated to all State Governments, the Advisor …
At least two solar energy projects, costing Rs 321.40 lakh, are in the final stages of commissioning, the projects are being put up by the Punjab Energy Development Agency (PEDA) with the financial support from the Ministry of Non-conventional Energy Sources (MNES) and the Indian Resource Energy Development Agency (IREDA) …
Cash-strapped Karachi Electric Supply Corporation (KESC) plans to witch its power generation units of Bin Qasim Thermal Power Plant and Korangi Thermal Power Plant 12 gas from furnace oil to save at least Rs 145 million per month, sources told PPI on Monday. The total offtake of furnace oil by …
The Tata Energy Research Institute (TERI) said that the north-eastern region has a potential for saving energy by substituting traditional direct combustion bio-mass fuels with 'producer gas'. Traditional direct bio-mass fuels also include firewood and agro residues and 'producer gas' is the fuel derived from conversion of traditional fuels into …
Usha India, the flagship of the Rs 4,000 crore Group Usha, has decided to diversify into the power sector. The company has, however, identified only hydro and the solar power segments as their focus area and would stay out of the thermal segment for the time being.
One of the two reactors at the Narora Atomic Power Plant has been shut down following the collapse of an "airlock door" leading to the coolant section housing the reaction. The plant is divided into four zones in terms of radiation levels. The air lock door that gave way on …
Big offshore oil, gas strikes expected on Makran coast : The outgoing secretary, Ministry of Petroleum, expressed great hopes of big offshore strikes on Makran coast where spudding for first of the three proposed exploratory wells was to begin on Monday evening.
Three refineries in the country have declared their capabilities to produce low sulphur diesel (ULSD) with a sulphur content of less than 0.05 per cent. They are the refinery commissioned recently by Reliance, the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) refinery in Gujarat and now, the Mangalore Refineries and Petrochemicals Ltd (MRPL).
an international team of scientists has discovered a moon orbiting an asteroid in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, according to the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas.
Barely three hours after Japan's worst nuclear accident at Tokaimura on September 30, anti-nuclear activists at Bangalore downloaded technical information on the disaster and possible health effects on locals. They then relayed these reports to counterparts in Sirsi who circulated translated versions to villagers living near the kaiga nuclear power …
A fresh row is brewing between the state forest department and the Kudremukh iron Ore Company Ltd. over the company's plans to build a dam across the Kochigehole tributary of thw bhadra river in the Kudremukh National Park. The dam will filter waste water from the iron ore processing done …
An escrow agreement for the 250-MW Neyveli Zero Unit Power Project was signed in Chennai. According to a press release issued by the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB), the signing of the pact was a pioneering effort in the country.
