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State-owned Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) will engage nongovernmental organisations for development work around new and existing power plants, and a top company official said it was not a confidence building measure. The move comes just a month after radiation leaked from a crippled nuclear power plant in Japan …
Workers employed at the Jaitapur nuclear power project site at Madban village have fled after the violent incidents on April 18 when a mob damaged equipment and indulged in arson. A Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) spokesperson on Thursday told The Hindu on the phone that workers have …
Chandigarh Haryana government has shortlisted two locations for setting up its second nuclear power plant. The sites, Kitlana in Bhiwani and Balsamand in Hisar districts, were approved by the Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) in February this year and one of them will be finalised for setting up of …
Paris: French energy group Areva expects to sign the commercial agreement with staterun Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) for supply of nuclear reactors by the middle of 2011 and is ready to answer any questions that Indian authorities may have over safety, its chief operating officer has said. Luc …
Police caned protesters and imposed an indefinite curfew in Ratnagiri town in the Konkan region of Maharashtra as tension mounted Tuesday, a day after a local fisherman who was part of a mob rioting against the nuclear power project in Jaitapur, was shot dead by police. Tabrez Tehekar of Nate …
Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) on Tuesday said its consortium with Alstom had won a Rs.1,600-crore contract for steam turbine generators for the Kakrapar nuclear power station in Gujarat from Nuclear Power Corporation of India.
Land acquisition is becoming a hindrance to the setting up of nuclear power plants. Even as the country has set a target of generating 20,000 MW of nuclear power by 2020, glitches in the acquisition of land could delay the commissioning of some projects. Officials in the Nuclear Power Corporation …
Kitlana in Bhiwani or Balsamand in Hisar likely site Haryana is betting high on nuclear power. Determined to become self-sufficient in power, the state is now vying with the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) to set up a second nuclear power plant at either Bhiwani or Hisar. Officials …
A team of the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL), which is setting up a nuclear power plant at Gorakhpur in Fatehabad, would shortly meet Haryana officials to clear the misgivings related to the recent nuclear mishap in Fukushima, Japan, as also sensitise state officials about the safety preparedness …
India's nuclear plants may soon get some additional safety features, including more provisions to add water to the reactors to deal with over heating of the core, a condition that led to the Fukushima nuclear accident. The measures are part of six recommendations made by four separate task forces set …
THE slow-moving disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan that is spreading a cloud of anxiety across the world has forced most nations to either suspend or review their nuclear power programmes—but not India. In the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami that struck the huge Daiichi power complex …
The Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited on Wednesday announced additional safety measures at all nuclear power plants even as it reiterated that the country
Even as the Fukushima-Daiichi disaster is still unfolding, Indian and Chinese administrations and utilities have confirmed their will to continue with their nuclear new build programmes relying on most advanced standards. Similar commitment is being shown by the US, Canada and Brazil. However, Italy and Switzerland have decided to reflect …
Even as Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) generated a record 40.8 per cent more electricity in 2010-11, the State-owned body said that the government is looking at creating a joint venture which will consider holding stakes in uranium mines in foreign countries in a bid to get assured and …
Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) has submitted its internal safety assessment report, which was made in the light of the Japan nuclear crisis, to the Department of Atomic Energy. As part of efforts to revisit the safety of Indian nuclear power plants, four task-forces were set up to assess …
A confident NPCIL wants to build 36 imported reactors as India plans to generate 63,000 MWe by 2032. WE have no choice but to pursue our nuclear power programme,
In the wake of growing public demands for a review of nuclear safety following Japan's Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear accident, Parliament's Standing Committee on Science and Technology will meet next week to examine what India should do to ensure its own civil nuclear energy programme is safe. The meeting will be held …
