The Government of Andhra Pradesh on March 11, 2024, issued the Andhra Pradesh Energy Efficiency and Energy Conservation Policy 2023-2028 to encourage and promote the large-scale deployment of energy conservation and efficiency measures in the State. This policy ensures efficient energy usage directly catering to the local and national economy …
Chennai: The safety review of nuclear reactors which the Prime Minister announced in the wake of the tragedy in Japan is now officially under way. The first facility where the audit has begun is the Madras Atomic Power station (MAPS) in Kalpakkam, said an official on Thursday. K Ramamurthy, the …
The Environment Ministry is considering the idea of developing bioshields comprising mangrove and non-mangrove species in coastal areas adjoining critical infrastructure projects such as power plants and oil storage depots. The idea of promoting mangroves and other biological shields to provide a
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will dedicate to the nation the second indigenous nuclear power reactor fuel reprocessing plant, with a capacity of 100 tonnes per annum, at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
NEW DELHI: Firm on the need to increase nuclear power generation, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh on Monday said given the low levels of nuclear power generation, the issue of handling waste was one of management. However, as India
Radiation, cancer, blindness, tardiness, cover-ups.The lessons from the Kalpakkam nuclear facility-------------- In the end, loud voices were all that mattered. After three months of extended discussions, legislators in the Indian Parliament yelled their assent. The Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill, 2010 was a legislation. As India charts its journey …
Large Indian cities are doing reasonably well. Ahmedabad, where I stay, has been voted one of the ten most attractive towns in India and once the adjoining panchayats became a part of the municipal corporation, it
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 …
Shastry V. Mallady MADURAI: A essential material required for treating bone cancer has been developed by scientists of the Fast Breeder Test Reactor at Kalpakkam. Stroncium pellets, which are being imported, have been prepared at the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research and will be discharged from the reactor in …
The present study has been carried out to determine the effect of temperature on behaviour, oxygen consumption, ammonia excretion and tolerance limit of the fish fingerlings of Alepes djidaba, which were collected at Kalpakkam. The fish fingerlings were placed at different temperatures, based on the thermal tolerance limit of fish …
Kalpakkam to monitor the seasonal variation in mercury (Hg) concentration. The Hg level (dissolved + acid leachable) ranged from 3 to 50 ppb for surface and 1.5 to 47.9 ppb for bottom-water samples, yielding an annual average concentration of 20.42
Speakers recall indigenous efforts behind its commissioning CHENNAI: M.R. Srinivasan, a former Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), said on Wednesday that the 123 nuclear agreement between India and the U.S. provided India "an honourable entry into the international community' of nuclear countries, and asserted that those who raised …
Jairam Ramesh confident of UPA government winning trust vote TIRUCHI: Exuding confidence that the UPA government would win the trust vote over the nuclear deal issue, Union Minister of State for Commerce and Power Jairam Ramesh said on Sunday that the country intended to generate 20,000 MW of nuclear power …
The waste immobilisation plant at IGCAR, Kalpakkam, will soon become operational Radioactive material that is vitrified will not leach and contaminate the ground water or soil The vitrified waste put into canisters is kept in an overpack and then kept in underground vaults The third facility in the country to …
Research currently underway to increase the burn-up (cumulative amount of energy extracted from a unit mass of fuel) of the oxide fuel that will be used in fast breeder reactors will help in reducing the cost of electricity generated. The oxide fuel to be used in the Prototype Fast Breeder …
On September 2, India embarked on the next stage of its nuclear programme. The Union cabinet cleared the Department of Atomic Energy's (dae) proposal for the Rs 3,500-crore, 500-megawatt (mw) prototype of the fast-breeder nuclear power reactor (fbpr) at Kalpakkam in Tamil Nadu. Ironically, the upgrade involves a technology that …
