First food: business of taste

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, Westinghouse detail plans to build N-power plants

In an effort to quell murmurs that progress of nuclear power generation has occurred at a snail

N-plants under review after Kaiga: Chavan

Processes, procedures and human performance aspects of all nuclear power plants are being reviewed following the radioactive contamination of drinking water at Kaiga Atomic Power Station, Minister of State, PMO, Prithviraj Chavan, said on Thursday. In a statement, Chavan assured the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha that investigations were on …

Job cut out for new AEC chief: Putting nuclear programme on fast track

Srikumar Banerjee, the new chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and Secretary of the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), has taken charge of the country

Govt worried as Kaiga saboteur had access to tritium water vials

New Delhi/Karwar: When staff and workers at the Kaiga nuclear plant began to show above normal radiation levels, authorities hit the alarm button. Teams began to urgently scour the complex for signs of a telltale radiation leak that could have exposed the staff to radioactivity. But despite routine urine samples …

Kaiga sabotage was inside job

Disgruntled Nuclear Scientist May Have Poisoned Water Cooler The Atomic Energy Commission on Sunday confirmed a TOI report that drinking water was contaminated with radioactive material at the Kaiga atomic plant in Karnataka, calling it an

Hyderabad faces little risk of radiation hazard

Hyderabad, Nov. 29: Hyderabad, which meets the uranium needs of all nuclear power plants in the country, is relatively safe from radiation hazards. Though most of the city-based Nuclear Fuel Complex (NFC) is not under International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards, it has developed its own safety mechanism over the …

IOC signs agreement to set up a nuclear power plant

Indian Oil Corporation has signed an MoU with Nuclear Power Corporation of India for setting up a nuclear power plant of at least 1,000 mw, flagship refiner

State bats for N-power plant

The Punjab Government is seriously perusing a nuclear power plant for the state. After the SAD-BJP government in Punjab announced a reversal from the stand taken on the issue by the previous Congress regime, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and his Cabinet colleagues have asked the Centre to build a

Land to be taken from the willing only

KOLKATA, 16 NOV: The proposed nuclear power plant at Haripur in East Midnapore will come up only if local people willingly give their land for the project, said chairman of Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and secretary of Department of Atomic energy (DAE), Mr Anil Kakodkar, in Kolkata this afternoon. Mr …

1 lakh MW power generation proposed under 12th Plan

With the demand of electricity ever increasing in the country, the Centre has reiterated its commitment to meet the requirement by adding capacity to the tune of one lakh MW under the 12th Five Year Plan, according to the Union Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde. The government has proposed to …

Has state lost the case for nuclear plant?

Has Punjab lost its case for the nuclear power plant? It appears to be so. Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) has reportedly approved the setting up of a nuclear power plant (NPP) of 1400 MW ( 2X700) at Kumharia village in Haryana

N-power plants safe, says BARC scientist

Jalandhar: The Associate Director of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Dr JV Yakhmi, has said that there should be no worry in any quarter as far as the safety of nuclear power plants (NPPs) is concerned. He was speaking at a seminar on nanotechnology. He said new NPP technology was …

Haripur, Soula fishermen oppose govt projects

HARIPUR : Tension is mounting with every passing day at Haripur and Soula where thousands of fishermen and local residents are gearing up to protest against any government move to acquire land for implementing projects. Fishermen at Soula are protesting against setting up of a thermal power plant project proposed …

Punjab bats for nuclear power plant

In a major shift in its policy on setting up a nuclear power plant in the state, Punjab will now lobby with the Centre to give it a Light Water Reactor (LWR)-based nuclear power plant.

Land acquiring process for nuclear power plants to begin

Mumbai: The process to build the first nuclear power plants at a cost of Rs33,000 crore after India's re-entry into global nuclear trade will be set into motion with the beginning of land acquisition tomorrow at Jaitapur in coastal Maharashtra. French company Areva will be setting up the 1650 MW …

2 Rajasthan n-power units may start by Jan

To run on imported fuel; IAEA safeguard nod soon. Anil Sasi New Delhi, Oct. 13 After being held up for well over two years due to fuel shortages, the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) expects to get the two new units of the Rajasthan Atomic Power Station (RAPS) …

L&T eyes Rs 8kcr revenue from N-power biz

ENGINEERING and construction company Larsen & Toubro (L&T;) is eyeing big bucks from the nuclear power business with annual revenue projections of Rs 7,000-8,000 crore once India launches its ambitious nuclear power capacity addition programme. The company, which has already entered into agreement with four major global vendors of nuclear …

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