Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
National Aluminium Company (Nalco), a leading producer of aluminium in the country, intends to enter the energy sector as an independent power producer. The company is exploring thermal, hydro and nuclear route to achieve this ambition. The company has already successfully negotiated with Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) …
KORAPUT: Nalco has begun exploratory talks to establish a nuclear power plant with the support of Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) in Ganjam district. Nalco CMD Chittaranjan Pradhan said this while addressing the media at Damanjodi here yesterday. Pradhan also said a power plant is coming up at …
IN front of us, more than a kilometre away, are the aquamarine waters of the Gulf of Mannar. On the shore is an office of M.V. Ranga Prasad & Co, a contractor for Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL). Some distance away to our left rise the domed reactor …
Interview with S.K. Jain, Chairman and Managing Director, Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited. In an interview to Frontline on July 14 in Chennai, S.K. Jain, Chairman and Managing Director, Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL), spoke on a variety of subjects, including the expansion of the KKNPP to …
The loading of fuel for the first unit of the 2,000-MW Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project in Tamil Nadu will be the main agenda at the joint coordination committee meeting of the Nuclear Power Corp of India (NPCIL) and Russian agency AtomStroy Export, beginning on Tuesday.
Agreeing with the government that a new nuclear power plant in the Konkan region is in public interest as it would supply electricity to millions, the Bombay High Court today lifted its stay on land acquisition for the project and dismissed a petition opposing it. The court had stopped land …
WITH nuclear cooperation with France set to intensify, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expressed hope that his visit to France would lead to building up the partnership in atomic energy. Mr Singh in his departure statement was clear that India was looking forward to building a strong civilian nuclear partnership with …
India's ambitious plan of expanding its nuclear power production capacity in the aftermath of the historic nuclear deal with the United States has run into its first hurdle. Responding to a petition by villagers opposed to a nuclear power plant in Maharashtra's Jaitapur, the Bombay High Court has stayed the …
MUMBAI: Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) Anil Kakodkar said an inadequate uranium supply had made the task of maintaining the pace of the nuclear power generation programme a very challenging task. "There has been a mismatch. Initially, we had plenty of uranium but no processing facilities. But today …
NTPC Ltd and Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (npcil) would jointly invest around Rs15,000 crore in the next eight years to set up nuclear power plants in the country. The two public sector corporations have signed an MoU to form a joint venture company to undertake nuclear power projects. …
TIRUNELVELI: Hinting that the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) might house eight 1,000 MW reactors instead of the originally planned six units, S.K. Jain, Nuclear Power Corporation India Limited (NPCIL) Chairman and Managing Director, has said that Jaitapur in Maharashtra would have six French nuclear reactors each with the capacity …
Despite the current economic recession, India is well on course to surpass the production target of 20,000 MW of nuclear power by 2020, the Atomic Energy Commission chairman Anil Kakodkar said here today. The Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) has started work on four 700 MW nuclear power …
NEW DELHI: India on Wednesday finalised two agreements with Russia for purchase of large quantities of uranium. The Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) placed orders for 2,000 tonnes of uranium for its various Pressurised Heavy Water Reactors (PHWRs) with Russia
THE government has promised business worth Rs 100,000 crore ($20 billion) to US companies for supply of nuclear equipment, as it looks to return the favour to Washington for pushing a civilian nuclear deal that ended decades of international nuclear apartheid against India last year, senior central government functionaries and …
Curiously, the opening up of India's nuclear energy market has seen a simultaneous nuclear renaissance in the US and UK Nuclear technology titans the world over are vying for the $150 billion sweepstakes of India's nuclear power market now being pried open up by the US-India civil nuclear cooperation agreement …
