Nuclear Power

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding poor handling of the fly ash by Rajiv Gandhi Thermal Power Plant, Khedar, Hisar district, Haryana, 27/05/2025

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Rajaram Vs State of Haryana dated 27/05/2025. By the execution application, the applicant was seeking compliance of the NGT order July 5, 2024 passed in OA No. 735/2024. In the OA, the applicant has raised the grievance in respect of …

India designs new atomic reactor for thorium utilisation

Mumbai: India today announced it has designed a new version of Advanced Heavy Water atomic reactor which will use lesser low enriched uranium along with thorium as fuel and having next generation safety requirements. "A new version of AHWR named Advanced Heavy Water Reactor-Low Enriched Uranium (AHWR-LEU) that uses low …

Nalco in talks to set up nuke power plant

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 …

Namibia to Mongolia: Indias uranium hunt

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

Low Carbon Energy Slips In Policy Vacuum

Britain's first clean coal plant will miss a government deadline and its first new nuclear plant will not come on line before 2020, reflecting global climate policy uncertainty, a utility chief said on Thursday. Investments in many pricey, carbon-cutting technologies from wind to nuclear power depend on government support or …

S.Korea Not Optimistic About Copenhagen Meeting

South Korea's Environment Minister Maanee Lee said on Thursday a U.N. meeting in Copenhagen may not reach an agreement, although Asia's fourth-largest economy will play a "bridging" role between developed and developing nations. In December nearly 200 nations will meet in Copenhagen to wrap a broader agreement to replace the …

First Solar To Build Huge Chinese Solar Plant

First Solar Inc said on Tuesday it plans to build the world's largest solar plant in China in the first major foray by a U.S. company into the Asian nation's fast growing alternative energy sector. Under a memorandum of understanding with the Chinese government, First Solar will build a 2-gigawatt …

India scouring world for uranium

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 …

Russia ready to set up nuclear power plant in Bangladesh

First Deputy Minister of the Russian Federation Andrey I. Denisov said here on Friday that Russia is ready to further strengthen its cooperation with Bangladesh. He made the remarks when the newly appointed Bangladesh ambassador to Russia, Dr S. M. Saiful Hoque, called on him to hand over a copy …

Kalam proposes n-power plant exclusively for Andamans

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 …

India to assist Sri Lanka with nuclear technology for power generation - report

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 …

Chaghi atomic blast: compensation for affected farmers demanded

Leaders of Balochistan National Party (Awami) Kharan unit demanded of the government to ensure provision of compensation and other relief measures for farmers affected by Chaghi atomic blast. Addressing a news conference at the Quetta Press Club here on Friday, Sardar Jalil Sargalzai, district president BNP (Awami) Kharan unit and …

US ready to offer expertise on safe uranium mining

Based on lessons learnt from its own uranium mining experiences, United States is ready to partner with India and share its expertise to safely mine uranium in Meghalaya without harming the environment. US Consul General (Kolkata), Beth A Payne said today the US has years of experience in mining Uranium …

Meghalaya CM defends UCIL lease

In the backdrop of threats of agitation by anti-uranium mining groups, Meghalaya Chief Minister D D Lapang on Tuesday, while defending the Cabinet

India, Namibia sign mineral, energy agreements

India and Namibia signed a Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation in the field of Geology and Mineral Resources and an agreement on cooperation in peaceful uses of nuclear energy, as Namibian President Hifikepunye Pohamba met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday. The Namibian President, who is on a state visit …

Key world energy statistics 2009

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India set to get rights to mine Namibian uranium, diamond

AS Canberra continues to hold out on supplying uranium to New Delhi, India is actively engaging the African sub-continent to fuel its civilian nuclear programme. Namibian president Hifikepunye Pohamba

Need to regulate n-power sector: Ansari

Vice-President Hamid Ansari on Wednesday called for a foolproof regulatory mechanism for the nuclear power sector, pointing out that private utility providers will be running such plants in the "not so distant future". Ansari, chief guest at the convocation of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) Training School, said there …

Pakistan needs nuclear energy to overcome power crisis: China appeals to world community

Spokesman to the President Farhatullah Babar on Tuesday said that Chinese Foreign Minister has advocated Pakistan's right to nuclear energy to overcome its power shortage and utilise it for peaceful purposes. In an interview with APP, he said during President Asif Ali Zardari's meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi …

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