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 …
Vinay Kumar NEW DELHI: The government on Thursday said it was reviewing the processes, procedures and human performance aspects at all nuclear power stations following the
Karwar: There have been serious violations of protocol at the Kaiga Atomic Power Station in handing radioactive material. The guidelines issued by the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd. (NPCIL) to its employees on handling radioactive material appear to have not been followed by some employees at the Kaiga station, …
Processes, procedures and human performance aspects of all nuclear power plants are being reviewed following the radioactive contamination of drinking water at Kaiga Atomic Power Station, Minister of State, PMO, Prithviraj Chavan, said on Thursday. In a statement, Chavan assured the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha that investigations were on …
Karwar: Intelligence agencies had warned the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) authorities about possible threats to the security of the Kaiga power plant. Raman Gupta, Superintendent of Police, Uttar Kannada had written on two occasions to the officials in charge of the security of the plant conveying the …
Surendra Gadekar Leakage raises safety concerns If the heightened security system is so lax, how can people trust the nuclear establishment's ability to provide fool-proof security? THE CONTAMINATION of at least 55 workers at Kaiga nuclear power plant is a personal tragedy for them and their families. Those of us …
New Delhi/Karwar: When staff and workers at the Kaiga nuclear plant began to show above normal radiation levels, authorities hit the alarm button. Teams began to urgently scour the complex for signs of a telltale radiation leak that could have exposed the staff to radioactivity. But despite routine urine samples …
Karwar: The station director of the Kaiga Atomic Power Station, J.P. Gupta, has denied that there was a security lapse on the part of the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) at Kaiga. He said different government agencies were investigating the case of contamination of the drinking water by …
Mahesh Kulkarni / Karwar December 01, 2009, 1:27 IST About 50 employees are being interrogated. The Kaiga Atomic Power Station (KAPS) authorities have commenced investigation to identify the person responsible for poisoning the drinking water dispenser at the premises with radioactive isotope Tritium, a senior official said today. About 50 …
Disgruntled Nuclear Scientist May Have Poisoned Water Cooler The Atomic Energy Commission on Sunday confirmed a TOI report that drinking water was contaminated with radioactive material at the Kaiga atomic plant in Karnataka, calling it an
Says water contamination in Kaiga not very serious NEW DELHI: An inquiry into the water contamination in the Kaiga power plant is under way, and answers will come out soon, Minister of State for Science and Technology Prithviraj Chavan has said.
THE Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) on Sunday confirmed that radioactive tritium was deliberately put in a water cooler at the high-security Kaiga Nuclear Power Plant, in Karnataka, exposing about 50 workers to increased level of radiation. Minister for science and technology Prithviraj Chavan confirmed that the Kaiga incident was an …
No radioactive threat to environment, employees; high-level probe ordered into the incident A day after the radiation leakage at the Kaiga power plant in Uttar Kannada district came to light, the Centre on Sunday said it suspected
S. RAGHOTHAM In 2006, former KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko was killed in London by unknown assailants who gave him a tiny dose, less than a microgram, of Polonium-210 : Whether it was accident or "mischief", the 40-50 people who ingested tritiate water at the Kaiga nuclear power plant on November …
The ever-increasing security threat to Indian nuclear establishments could lead to almost all of them being declared no-fly zones to avoid the possibility of any plane crashing into them in a repeat of the 9/11 attack. National security adviser M K Narayanan is learnt to have written to the Prime …
green activists are up in arms against the ongoing work on the Kaiga atomic power plant in Karnataka. They have stalled work on the project's transmission line which cuts through the Western Ghats, posing a threat to the precious flora in the area. Local residents and green activists under the …
The Karnataka government has joined in the vociferous opposition to the Kaiga nuclear power plant, under pressure from political parties and environmental groups. Deputy chief minster S M Krishna said the state government will urge Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao to suspend work on the plant in Uttara Kannada …
