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Russian official says there are no unsolved problems in the unit that can hamper early operationalisation The project is ready as of today. The main equipment has been tested and is in operation. It should go critical early next year } CONSTRUCTION of India's first large nuclear power plant has …
France, India Ink Multi-Billion-$ N-Deals FRANCE and India signed multi-billion-dollar agreements that will usher in an era of civilian nuclear energy in this country, two years after the US helped end India
On Monday, the French company AREVA and Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) signed a deal ensuring that the 9,900-MW Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project will proceed in New Delhi, which will have the evolutionary pressurised reactors designed by the said company. The project will have six such reactors, each …
Sanjay Jog / Mumbai December 6, 2010, 0:18 IST State-run Nuclear Power Corporation (NPC) and French nuclear power major Areva would sign two crucial agreements tomorrow for developing a 10,000-Mw nuclear power project at Jaitapur in Maharashtra. The agreements
Coinciding with the visit of French President Nicolas Sarkozy to India, hundreds of people today staged a protest near Jaitapur, the site of the proposed nuclear power project to be built in collaboration with the France-based company Areva. The protesters included environmentalists, villagers and farmers, who do not want to …
A Gopalakrishnan No EPR has so far been built and operated, and the partial construction of two such units has shown significant deficiencies The Roussely Report (July 2010) has concluded that the credibility of the EPR has been seriously damaged by the problems of the two reactors under construction. Roussely …
Pune Former -c- hairman of Atomic Energy Commission Anil Kakodkar on Tuesday said the construction of the nuclear power plant at Jaitapur would not be a threat to agriculture or marine ecology in the Konkan region. He was talking to reporters while on a visit to the city. His statement …
Mumbai: Members of the Konkan Bachao Samiti and Janahit Seva Samiti on Tuesday questioned the scientific validity of the environmental clearance given to the Jaitapur nuclear power project slated to come up at Madban in Ratnagiri district.
On a flat, low-lying island nestled in crisp waters off the west coast of Finland, the first nuclear power plant ordered in Western Europe since 1986 is inching toward start-up. Over 4,000 builders and engineers are at work on the sprawling Olkiluoto 3 project, whose turbine hall is so cavernous …
India has a flourishing and largely indigenous nuclear power program and expects to have 20,000 MWe nuclear capacity on line by 2020 and 63,000 MWe by 2032. It aims to supply 25% of electricity from nuclear power by 2050. Because India is outside the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty due to its …
Vinaya Deshpande Mumbai: The 9900-MWe Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project has received environmental clearance, but with quite a few strings attached. Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh announced the clearance with 35 conditions and safeguards during a press conference here on Sunday. Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan …
Decision was difficult but was a balancing act, says Ramesh. The Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) today okayed the 10,000-Mw Jaitapur nuclear power project in Maharashtra, to be developed by the Nuclear Power Corporation (NPC) in collaboration with French power equipment maker firm Areva. The ministry also laid …
The Union environment ministry has cleared the construction of a 9,900MW nuclear power plant at Jaitapur in Ratnagiri district. Environment minister Jairam Ramesh made this announcement in Mumbai on Sunday and said that his department has prescribed 35 conditions and safety measures. The Union envi Nov. 28: The Union environment …
NEW DELHI: Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd. (NPCIL) will commission the 220-MW nuclear power plant Kaiga stage 4 project on Saturday. The entire power will be supplied to the Southern Grid. Speaking at the India Energy Forum here, NPCIL Associate Director N. Nagaich said the commissioning of the project …
Final Clearance After AERB Approval As NEERI Okay Does Not Deal With Radiation Concerns THE Expert Appraisal Committee of the environment ministry has given a conditional clearance to the proposed Jaitapur nuclear power project in Maharashtra. Final clearance for the project, however, will be given only after the Atomic Energy …
US Scientist Says He Saw Hundreds Of Centrifuges At Enrichment Facility David E Sanger Washington: North Korea showed a visiting American nuclear scientist earlier this month a vast new facility it secretly and rapidly built to enrich uranium, confronting the Obama administration with the prospect that the country is preparing …
This study starts with a physical assessment of the quantities of the radioactivity being generated and mobilized by the entire system of related industrial processes making civilian nuclear power possible. It assesses the actual and potential exposure of the public to natural and human-made nuclear radioactivity, and it discusses empirical …
Seoul: New satellite images of a North Korean nuclear site and a recent visit to the North by two American experts suggest that Pyongyang has started work on a new reactor. The Institute for Science and International Security, a Washington-based nuclear research group, said it has obtained photographs showing
