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. …
China may have to put the brakes on the construction of nuclear power plants to ensure the plants are safe, the country's top energy planning official told reporters on Sunday. Zhang Guobao, head of the National Energy Administration, warned of signs of "improper" and "too fast" development of nuclear power …
Venezuela has yet to develop a plan to explore or exploit its uranium deposits despite comments by a government official saying it was working with Iran to locate them, Venezuela's energy minister told Reuters. On Friday, Mining Minister Rodolfo Sanz said Iran and Venezuela were working together to find uranium, …
France, Italy and several other European Union countries weighed their chances of haggling up their EU carbon emissions quotas on Thursday, one day after Poland and Estonia successfully challenged theirs in court. The two east European countries won their appeal on Wednesday for more generous caps on industrial emissions in …
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) …
The federal government has decided to establish the National Safety Analysis Centre (NSAC) to provide technical support to the Pakistan Nuclear Regulatory Authority (PNRA) to ensure the safety of Chashma-3 and Chashma-4 nuclear power projects. A 325-megawatt nuclear power plant is under construction at Chashma, which will be completed by …
Banks, pension funds and other investment groups representing more than $13 trillion in assets called for a strong global agreement on climate policy on Wednesday, saying it would lead to a flood of investment into the low-carbon economy. "Without the policies to encourage clean energy, investors are stuck at the …
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 …
First it was Kazakhstan, then Namibia and now Mongolia. In its quest for obtaining fuel for its nuclear power plants, India has been reaching out to every possible country that has some uranium resources and is willing to sell it to New Delhi. Monday
Energy-starved India, armed with permission to buy atomic fuel from around the world after the end of a three-decade ban, is courting new partners alongside old friends in its global hunt for uranium. The strategy, spelt out in a government paper published last week, will see New Delhi reach out …
Former president A P J Abdul Kalam on Friday said, there would be a 250 MW nuclear power station on one of the islands exclusively for the Andamans. He was at the national seminar on security and development of the islands under the Andaman and Nicobar Command (ANC). Kalam said …
Sri Lanka government yesterday said that India is likely to share its nuclear technology with Sri Lanka for power generation using thorium as the main source of energy. According to a local media report, Sri Lanka's Science and Technology Minister Tissa Vitharana has said that he had invited Indian nuclear …
In case of accident, US does not want firms to pay it all nuclear reactor suppliers will not be liable if there is an accident in an atomic power plant in India. The onus of the accident would be on the operator, only partly. The rest would be on the …
At least four million Americans under age 65 are exposed to high doses of radiation each year from medical imaging tests, according to a new study in The New England Journal of Medicine. About 400,000 of those patients receive very high doses, more than the maximum annual exposure allowed for …
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 …
A new report from the Electric Power Research Institute noted that in order to meet climate goals, the U.S. power industry must implement a full portfolio of technologies. While we agree that we'll have to pull out all the stops in the race to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, we must …
T.S. Subramanian CHENNAI: With natural uranium production going up in India, the capacity factor of its nuclear power reactors, which is around 55 per cent now, will go up to 65 per cent by the end of this financial year (2009-2010), said Anil Kakodkar, Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), on …
CHENNAI: The Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR), Kalpakkam, has denied reports in a section of the media about abnormal increase in radioactivity levels around Kalpakkam, about 60 km from Chennai.
C Shivakumar | LARGE-SCALE unauthorised development in and around the sterile zone of the Kalpakkam nuclear complex is being planned, violating national and international reactor guidelines and putting to risk the security of the nuclear establishment and the people. The national and international guidelines stipulate that the area within 1.6km …