Nuclear Fuel

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding illegal mining in village Leta, district Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh, 23/05/2025

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Akhilesh Kumar Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 23/05/2025. The matter related to illegal mining activites carried out by Jai Maa Chandrika Enterprises, Rajendra Nagar, village Kabari, district Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh. The applicant also alleged about illegal sale …

Iran successfully tests domestic n-fuel rods

Iranian scientists have produced the nation’s first nuclear fuel rod, a feat of engineering the West has doubted Tehran capable of, the country’s nuclear agency said Sunday, in a snub to international demands that it halt sensitive nuclear work. Scientists and researchers at the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran have …

Japan set to declare Fukushima plant shutdown

Japan was set to announce on Friday it has finally tamed leaking reactors at Fukushima, in what authorities say is a vital step on the long road to recovery, nine months after its nuclear crisis began. Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda was expected to tell a disaster-weary public that all reactors …

Stake in Russian uranium plant may be discussed

KOLKATA, 15 DEC: Among the many issues Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is expected to discuss with Russian officials while in Moscow this week, is the prospect of India buying a stake in one of Russia’s uranium enrichment plants. If India were to take a 10-20 per cent equity stake in …

Japan says stricken nuclear power plant in cold shudown

Japan declared its tsunami-stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant to be in cold shutdown on Friday in a major step toward resolving the world's worst nuclear crisis in 25 years. The Fukushima Daiichi plant, 240 km (150 miles) northeast of Tokyo, was wrecked on March 11 by a huge earthquake and …

Australia set to export uranium to India

Ruling Labour Party votes in favour of lifting decades-old ban. Even as it faces a plethora of domestic problems, the Manmohan Singh government added another feather to its cap on the foreign policy front today when the ruling Australian Labour Party (ALP) approved a plan to lift the decades-old ban …

Australia's Ruling Labor Clears Uranium Sales To India

Australia's ruling Labor Party on Sunday endorsed plans to open up uranium sales to India, clearing the way for talks on a bilateral nuclear agreement and resolving an issue that has caused diplomatic tensions between the two nations. Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced the plan in November, but needed her …

Study Shows Worse Picture of Meltdown in Japan

Molten nuclear fuel may have bored into the floor of at least one of the reactors at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, the complex’s operator said Wednesday, citing a new simulation of the accident that crippled the plant in March. The simulation suggested that the meltdown may have …

Radiation detected in Europe may be coming from Hungry not Pakistan: IAEA receives information from HAEA

The nuclear radiation detected in some parts of Europe that were earlier supposed to be coming from Karachi Nuclear Power Plant (Kanupp), might have emitted from Hungry, according to the information received by International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) from the Hungarian Atomic Energy Authority (HAEA). Well-placed sources told Business Recorder …

Australia Opposition rakes up India uranium sale issue

Australia's Opposition parties today questioned Prime Minister Julia Gillard's plans to reverse a ban on uranium exports to India and her snubbing of foreign minister Mr Kevin Rudd on the matter. The Opposition raised the issue during question time in parliament, asking both Ms Gillard and Mr Rudd to speak …

Iran Pressed to Resolve Discrepancy on Uranium

The Obama administration pressed Iran to account for a discrepancy of nearly 20 kilograms in its reporting to the United Nations' nuclear agency on how much natural uranium metal it has in its stockpile. U.S. diplomats told a quarterly gathering Friday of the International Atomic Energy Agency's 35-nation board that …

Australian PM to push for uranium sale to India

The Australian Prime Minister, Ms Julia Gillard, today made it clear that she would take forward her proposal to lift ban on uranium sale to India as she met Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, here. Dr Singh and Ms Gillard, who are here to attend the Asean and East Asia …

Australia may sell uranium to India

In a significant move, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard today proposed to overturn her country’s controversial policy of not selling uranium to India since it is not a signatory to the NPT. Writing in the ‘Sydney Morning Herald’ newspaper, she said: “We must, of course, expect of India the same …

Oz to revoke ban on uranium sale to India

Gillard Seeks Boost In Ties With New Delhi New Delhi: In a major policy change that will be welcomed in New Delhi, Australian prime minister Julia Gillard declared that her ruling Labour Party would reverse its ban on selling uranium to India. Australia had been refusing to sell uranium to …

Kudankulam: ‘Foreign activists join locals in opposing project’

Foreign environmental activists have joined hands with locals opposing the Kudankulam Atomic Power Project (KAPP), alleged Dr S. K. Jain, Chairman and Managing Director of the Nuclear Power Corporation of India. He claimed that the recent protest at the KAPP was supported by environmental activists from the US, Australia, France, …

Uranium ban not holding up N-programme

MELBOURNE, 27 OCT: Australia's ban on uranium sale to India was not holding back its civil nuclear programme as the country was not exclusively dependent on supplies from here, foreign minister Mr Kevin Rudd said today. The ruling Australian Labor Party (ALP) refuses to permit sale of uranium to India …

Fallout forensics hike radiation toll

Global data on Fukushima challenge Japanese estimates.

Tepco: Radiation From Fukushima Plant Declines Further

The operator of Japan's tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear power plant Monday said the amount of radiation being emitted from the complex has halved from a month ago, in the latest sign that efforts to bring the plant under control are progressing. The Fukushima Daiichi plant, 240 kilometers (150 miles) northeast of …

Australia, India in talks for uranium sale: Report

Australia and India are in a secret “dialogue” to allow the sale of uranium to New Delhi despite Canberra’s declared policy of opposing sales to non-NPT signatories, a media report claimed today. “The two nations have already begun a dialogue that is likely to canvass the uranium sale if Labor …

The economics of nuclear power

The Divecha Centre for Climate Change, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, organized a seminar on 29 August 2011. The speaker was M. V. Ramana, who is currently with the Nuclear Futures Laboratory and Program on Science and Global Security at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton …

Russia ready for more nuclear co-operation with Iran

Moscow's energy minister Sergei Shmatko on Sunday promised further nuclear co-operation with Iran, after Russia built the Islamic republic's first atomic power plant despite US objections. "I say with certainty that in the future, we will have more co-operation in the Bushehr power plant, and also in the development of …

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