Hidden from public, on the shores of the Bay of Bengal at Kalpakkam near Chennai, Indian nuclear scientists are in the final throes of starting a high-tech giant stove more than 15 years in the making.
Even as the group protesting Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) upped the ante, the department of atomic energy (DAE) announced Tuesday it would add two more reactors to Kalpakkam Nuclear Plant in an effort to bridge the energy demand-supply gap. The 500 MW fast-breeder reactors would have additional safety systems and were part of a series of nuclear reactors gearing up across the country to produce 20,000 MWe by 2020, S.C. Chetal, director, IGCAR, Kalpakkam, said.
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,
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 the subterranean rock below the mine to see if this can be used to store nuclear waste.
A comment on “The Limits of Safety Analysis: Severe Nuclear Accident Possibilities at the PFBR” by Ashwin Kumar and M V Ramana (EPW, 22 October 2011), followed by a response by the authors themselves.
A comment on “The Limits of Safety Analysis: Severe Nuclear Accident Possibilities at the PFBR” by Ashwin Kumar and M V Ramana (EPW, 22 October 2011), followed by a response by the authors themselves.
PMK leader S. Ramadoss, who has been running a campaign against nuclear power plants, on Tuesday wanted the closure of the Kalpakkam Atomic Power Station by 2020, saying the plant was posing health hazards
Kudankulam seems to be rocking India’s ambitious nuclear power programme. A crisis-like atmosphere prevails due to the stoppage of pre-commissioning fuel loading in Kudankulam’s 1000 MW capacity first
The anti-Koodankulam nuclear power project (KKNPP) struggle of the people’s movement against nuclear energy (PMANE) has set off a chain reaction, boosting the other anti-nuke movements in the country.
PIL to implement disaster management guidelines of nuclear and radiological emergencies In the High Court of Judicature at Madras dated 10/11/2011. This public interest litigation questions the failure
CHENNAI: The Madras Atomic Power Station (MAPS) will conduct workshops on the safety of nuclear reactors, its Director K Ramamurthy said on Sunday, to help the common man appreciate the high standards
