The Government of Andhra Pradesh on March 11, 2024, issued the Andhra Pradesh Energy Efficiency and Energy Conservation Policy 2023-2028 to encourage and promote the large-scale deployment of energy conservation and efficiency measures in the State. This policy ensures efficient energy usage directly catering to the local and national economy …
The decision by the govt. of India in May 2017 to commission ten nuclear reactors of the type PHWR of 700 MW capacity each, and the other proposal to add four more reactors of the type VVER of 1,000 MW capacity each at Kudankulam NPP, has given rise to serious …
Western Ghats Task Force Chairperson Ananth Hegde Ashisara said on Thursday that radiation from the Kaiga nuclear plant in Uttara Kannada district was causing cancer among residents of nearby villages. He told a press conference that members of the Task Force had visited villages in a radius of 15 km …
A study on the impact of radiation on the health condition of people living around Kaiga Nuclear Power Generation Station has commenced. Kaiga nuclear power plant. The survey is being conducted by Tata Memorial Cancer Research Institute, Mumbai, and the Community Health Centre of Kasturba Medical College, Manipal. The people …
The Karnataka government has informed the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) that it has prepared a proposal for upgrading the infrastructure facilities in villages close to the Kaiga Atomic Power Plant in Uttar Kannada district. The NDMA, an unit under the Union Ministry of Home Affairs, had carried out mock …
Mumbai-based Tata Institute would conduct a survey on radiation levels in villages surrounding Kaiga Nuclear Plant in Karnataka and treatment would be provided to anyone found affected, the Chief Minister, Mr D.V. Sadananda Gowda, said today. “Tata Institute will conduct survey on radiation levels in villages surrounding Kaiga plant and …
A smoke alarm in the Kaiga Nuclear Power Generating Station located in coastal district of Uttara Kannada in Karnataka has forced authorities to shut down the third unit of the plant. According to officials in the nuclear plant, after a smoke alarm in a pump house on Saturday evening made …
After Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's assurance in the Parliament on the safety audit of all atomic plants in the country in the aftermath of Japan's nuclear crisis, multilevel safety measures have been put in place at the Kaiga atomic power plant in Karnataka on the west coast near Karwar in …
Bangalore: The Kaiga nuclear plant consisting of four reactors comes under seismic zone three which ordinarily means a moderate damage risk zone. There are five seismic zones in India and zone five is the one with severest risk and high damage risk zone. Zone four is also classified as high …
Mangalore: The tritium poisoning episode at Kaiga Generating Station (KGS), which exposed about 50 employees to increased levels of radiation 16 months ago, remains unsolved though police claim investigation is still on. Uttara Kannada superintendent of police Raman Gupta told TOI:
The fourth unit of the 220 MW Kaiga Generating Station (KGS-4), located in Uttar Kannada district of Karnataka, was connected to the southern power grid in the early hours of Wednesday, after the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) granted clearance to it. KGS-4, which achieved first criticality on November 27 …
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 …
The November 2009 exposure of employees at the Kaiga nuclear power plant to tritiated water is not the first instance of high radiation exposures to workers. Over the years, many nuclear reactors and other facilities associated with the nuclear fuel cycle operated by the Department of Atomic Energy have had …
The recent incident involving a large number of workers at the Kaiga Atomic Power Station in Karnataka receiving substantial radiation doses due to drinking from a cooler contaminated with tritiated water (containing a radioactive isotope of hydrogen) is disturbing for a number of reasons. The nuclear establishment has tried to …
The tritium poisoning episode highlights grave safety lapses and the urgent need for an independent nuclear regulator. THE poisoning of workers at the Kaiga power station with tritium is another black mark in the none-too-bright record of the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE). The number affected was variously stated
An inquiry is being undertaken to investigate the cause of the accident which led to the death of the two research scientists at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (Barc), minister of state for science and technology Prithviraj Chavan said talking exclusively to this paper. "We need to know how the …
Two research scientists were killed after a fire broke out in a photochemistry laboratory in the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Trombay, on Tuesday afternoon. They were identified by the police as Umang Singh from Mumbai and Partha Pratim Bag from West Bengal, both PhD students in BARC
Mishaps At Indian Nuclear Plants • 2001, Rajasthan: Turbine blade failures, cracks in end-shields, leaks in calandria, leak in many tubes in the moderator heat exchanger. • 1999, Tarapur: Tube failures result in de-rating of the reactor. • 1999, Madras: Four tonnes of heavy water leaks, exposing workers to radioactivity. …
The statement of IGP (Western Range), Gopal Hosur on the safety aspects at Kaiga Atomic Power Station (KAPS) has raised several questions over security measures at the nuclear power plant in Uttara Kannada district. The IGP who visited the plant on Thursday observed that there are loopholes in the internal …
