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NEW DELHI: The 10,000 MW nuclear power plant that the NPCIL proposes to set up at Jaitapur, Maharashtra, with reactors from French company Areva, was on the agenda of the Union Environment Ministry's Expert Appraisal Committee meeting on Monday. According to some members, the committee plans to recommend a conditional …
SINGAPORE: The civil nuclear energy option has come into sharp focus in Southeast Asia, with Vietnam firming up foreign aid and Singapore evincing interest. Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said here on Monday
Sri Lanka is flirting with nuclear power. Sri Lanka is becoming a power hungry nation. Several coal power plants with a total generation capacity of 3,200 MW are on the anvil. The country’s new energy minister, Champika Ranawaka, wants a nuclear power plant by 2025. That’s a sure sign of …
Iran said that it is ready to resume talks with the West about its nuclear programme in November, officials at the European Union said here on Friday. In a two-paragraph letter to the bloc
Iran began loading fuel into the core of its first atomic power plant on Tuesday, moving closer to the start up of a facility that leaders have touted as defying of international efforts to curtail the country's nuclear ambitions. The Russian-built nuclear power plant in Bushehr has international approval and …
Villagers from Madban, Niveli, Mithgavhane, Karel and Ansure, the five villages which will come under the proposed 9,900 MW Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project in Ratnagiri district, gathered in Mumbai on Wednesday, protesting against revenue minister Narayan Rane
Nuclear power should be hot. It emits virtually no carbon dioxide. It requires no costly imports of oil from countries that breed terrorists. Even greens don
The Zwentendorf nuclear power plant in Austria has been taken on lease by PM Dimensions, a Mumbai-based workforce-development and engineering-services company, for imparting training in nuclear plant operations. The plant, located by the Danube river, has a Light Water Reactor of 723-MW capacity, and is owned by EVN, an Austrian …
Sanjay Jog / Mumbai October 15, 2010, 0:20 IST Radioactive releases from the proposed plant of Nuclear Power Corporation (NPC) in Maharashtra are expected to be insignificant and their impact would be negligible, according to the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (Neeri). The state-run nuclear power major
SINDHUDURG (Maharashtra): Professor Madhav Gadgil, chairman of the ecology expert panel on Western Ghats, heard villagers and officials during his ongoing visit to Konkan. He observed that "prima facie there were deficiencies in some of the environment impact assessment reports'' for the power as well as mining projects in the …
Letter to Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited from Ministry of Environment & Forests regarding Prescribing of TOR of Haryana Atomic Power Project at village Gorakhpur, District Fatehabad, Haryana by M/s Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd. dated 13th October, 2010.
Priscilla Jebaraj NEW DELHI: The first fruits of India's civil nuclear agreement could become visible by the end of the year, despite local protests. The final agreement for the Jaitapur nuclear power plant, to be set up with French-made reactors, could be signed during French President Nicolas Sarkozy's India visit …
The 10,000-MW nuclear power projects at seven sites, including Haripur in East Midnapore, has been approved by Centre and the work of setting up the reactors can be started very soon with the help of Russia, said Mr Srikumar Banerjee, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission today. He was speaking …
Raktima Bose KOLKATA: An agreement on the general characteristics of the two 1,650 MW European Pressurised Reactors (EPRs) to be set up in Maharashtra by a joint venture of French firm Areva and the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) is expected to be finalised by the end of …
