Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
The loading of fuel for the first unit of the 2,000-MW Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project in Tamil Nadu will be the main agenda at the joint coordination committee meeting of the Nuclear Power Corp of India (NPCIL) and Russian agency AtomStroy Export, beginning on Tuesday.
Agreeing with the government that a new nuclear power plant in the Konkan region is in public interest as it would supply electricity to millions, the Bombay High Court today lifted its stay on land acquisition for the project and dismissed a petition opposing it. The court had stopped land …
A new report from the Electric Power Research Institute noted that in order to meet climate goals, the U.S. power industry must implement a full portfolio of technologies. While we agree that we'll have to pull out all the stops in the race to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, we must …
T.S. Subramanian CHENNAI: With natural uranium production going up in India, the capacity factor of its nuclear power reactors, which is around 55 per cent now, will go up to 65 per cent by the end of this financial year (2009-2010), said Anil Kakodkar, Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), on …
CHENNAI: The Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR), Kalpakkam, has denied reports in a section of the media about abnormal increase in radioactivity levels around Kalpakkam, about 60 km from Chennai.
C Shivakumar | LARGE-SCALE unauthorised development in and around the sterile zone of the Kalpakkam nuclear complex is being planned, violating national and international reactor guidelines and putting to risk the security of the nuclear establishment and the people. The national and international guidelines stipulate that the area within 1.6km …
French Secretary of State for Foreign Trade Anne Marie Idrac on Thursday said her country would not set up a nuclear plant in Pakistan. At a press conference, she said France would provide technical assistance to Pakistan to improve security of its existing civil nuclear facilities. She said her country …
EDF Energies Nouvelles and U.S. solar panel maker First Solar Inc said on Thursday they will build France's largest solar panel manufacturing plant at an investment cost of 90 million euros ($128 million). The plant will initially be able to produce panels with a total capacity of around 100 megawatts, …
The plants in the contaminated area have a mechanism to protect future progenies by blocking transfer of radio-nuclides to the seeds Since April 1986, scientists got a unique opportunity to study the impact of radioactive contamination on the plants and animals living near Chernobyl. The Chernobyl Forum, which is made …
New Delhi: On Day Five, US diplomacy on climate change was in full swing even as Hillary Clinton flew out on Tuesday morning. The US special envoy and chief negotiator on climate change, Todd Stern, took over where the US secretary of state left, meeting environment and forest minister Jairam …
NEW DELHI: India and the U.S. on Monday finalised three hi-tech agreements with the visiting Secretary of State Hillary Clinton singling out the military end user agreement as the harbinger of greater defence cooperation. The other two agreements are the Technology Safeguards Agreement (TSA), a type of end user agreement …
Britain's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) saw its income rise by more than a third in the financial year 2008/09 on higher sales from two of Britain's oldest nuclear power stations, the public body said on Monday. The NDA made 2.0 billion pounds ($3.29 billion) in the year to the end …
Days before US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrives In India on her first official visit after taking charge, India is learnt to have firmed up a site each in Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh that will be dedicated for the first US nuclear reactors after the nuclear deal. While this …
EVEN as the government increases focus on power generation from alternative sources, the results, due to a bad weather and fuel shortage, are not in favour. The country
India's ambitious plan of expanding its nuclear power production capacity in the aftermath of the historic nuclear deal with the United States has run into its first hurdle. Responding to a petition by villagers opposed to a nuclear power plant in Maharashtra's Jaitapur, the Bombay High Court has stayed the …
U.S. lawmakers hoped to garner more support for climate change legislation awaiting a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives by looking out for agricultural interests. Lawmakers came to a compromise earlier in the week that would help the Farm Belt cope with new requirements for industry to limit greenhouse …
Technology to capture carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants and store them underground will be ready by 2015 and could be in wide use in the United States by 2020, according to the top executive at American Electric Power Co Inc. Mike Morris, CEO of Columbus, Ohio-based AEP, one of …
The climate bill nearing a vote in the U.S. House will reward farmers who plant trees or take other steps to control greenhouse gases and it will remove for five years an obstacle to corn-based ethanol, said the House Agriculture Committee chairman on Wednesday. Chairman Collin Peterson said negotiators hoped …
