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. …
GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) is in talks with Larsen & Toubro (L&T;) to engage the engineering and construction firm as a potential vendor for its nuclear power plants in India. GEH had, late last month, announced a tie-up with state-owned equipment manufacturer Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) for reactor …
North Korea vowed on Tuesday to restore nuclear facilities that it had been disabling and boycott international talks on its nuclear weapons program to protest against the UN Security Council
Chatting with a visitor about energy issues in the back of the Greater Mount Carmel Baptist Church here, a group of women exploded in laughter at the idea that their electric rates were among the lowest in the nation. One of the 21 coal-fired power plants in Missouri that emit …
Faridkot: High levels of radioactive element in special children: Experts collect water samples After finding high levels of uranium in the hair samples of differently-abled children, experts have now sent water samples for testing to find the source of this radioactive element. Experts and doctors working at Baba Farid Centre …
The country is walking the path of a perennial gas crisis where even the best possible situation of striking gas in the off-shore blocks will not give it a respite till 2020. This means unless the government takes major policy decisions like emphasising coal or nuclear power production within a …
Bangladesh and Russia yesterday agreed on their proposals for setting up nuclear power plants in Bangladesh and signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in this regard at the end of this month. "A draft proposal has been finalised on the basis of mutual understanding to sign the MoU...A Russian minister …
An agreement between Bangladesh and Russia on cooperation for development of nuclear technology in the country is likely to be signed within this month. Highly placed sources at the Science and ICT Ministry told UNB yesterday, the Russian expert team that has been holding talks with officials of Science and …
State Minister for Power and Energy Shamsul Hoq Tuku yesterday said that there is no other alternative but to approve the coal policy for electricity production. "We are working to present a concrete coal policy to nation for extracting coal uninterruptedly," he said in a press conference, organised by Forum …
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 …
MADURAI: Scientists from the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) held an awareness programme here on Tuesday to send out a message that nuclear energy is safe and people need not have any apprehensions about safety parameters. A three-day workshop on
A study on water and sustainability for power production in the US by the Electric Power Research Institute compared the water needs and consumption rates of existing power stations by type of fuel and cooling technology. The EPRI analysis showed that existing nuclear power stations used and consumed significantly more …
INDIA signed the first commercial pact to build nuclear power plants with French power equipment and technology company Areva on Wednesday. A memorandum of understanding was signed by government-run organisation Nuclear Power Corporation of India and Areva. Though the MoU provides for supply of two nuclear reactors, the order may …
