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 …
Substantial work has been carried out in the areas of research on technologies for utilization of thorium in nuclear fuel cycle, and on the development of an Advanced Heavy Water Reactor (AHWR), for use of thorium based fuel on a large scale. Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), a constituent Unit …
“We are drawing up a new power allotment formula under which maximum power from Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project 3 and 4 units will be for TN,” Union Power Minister Piyush Goyal has said. A request was made by Tamil Nadu that maximum power should be allotted to the State from …
CHENNAI: Anti-nuclear activists are gearing up for yet another legal battle with the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) granting ‘first pour of concrete’ (FPC) to units three and four in the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KKNPP). A writ petition is likely to be filed in the Madras High Court in …
Tamil Nadu managed to narrow the gap between electricity requirement and availability to a negligible 23 million units (MU) in 2016-17 as against a deficit of 690 MU in 2015-16. The annual Load Generation Balance Report (LGBR) published by the Central Electricity Authority (CEA) in May last month predicts the …
CHENNAI: Two units of Vallur thermal unit went out of action following a fire in the generator of unit 3. The total loss of power supply to Tamil Nadu owing to the problems in the two units is around 800MW. Vallur units have sagged at a time when only one …
In a big boost for the country's clean energy requirements, India and Russia on Thursday signed an agreement for setting up of Units 5 and 6 of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in Tamil Nadu. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Vladimir Putin inked five pacts on wide ranging issues like …
With barely a fortnight to go for a meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin, a key pact on units five and six of Kudankulam nuclear plant awaits clearance from the Prime Minister's Office (PMO). The General Framework Agreement (GFA) for units 5 and 6 of …
VISAKHAPATNAM: The problem with nuclear technology is that it has been designed and used originally for destructive purposes while generating electricity has always been a secondary activity, said anti-nuclear power activist G Sundar Rajan. Addressing a large gathering of anti-nuclear power activists of the region at the Visakha Public Library …
CHENNAI: Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) on Tuesday said it is confident of maintaining Unit 1 of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project on its own, after ASE Group of Companies, a subsidiary Russia's ROSATOM, having fulfilled its contractual obligations, relinquished operational responsibility of the plant. The first test for NPCIL …
Proposals for setting up of ten indigenous Pressurised Heavy Water Reactors each of 700 MW and two Light Water Reactors each of 1000 MW (Kudankulam Units-5&6) with foreign cooperation have been prepared and finalised. These are presently under consideration of the Government for accord of administrative approval and financial sanction. …
ZiO-Podolsk, the machine engineering arm of Russian nuclear group Rosatom's subsidiary Atomenergomash has started production of equipments for the third and fourth nuclear power units to be set up in Kudankulam in Tamil Nadu, it was announced on Tuesday. In a statement issued on Tuesday, Rosatom, Russia's state atomic energy …
Even as the second reactor of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project has attained its generation capacity of 1,000 MWe, the first unit has so far produced 13,197 million units of power, according to R.S. Sundar, Site Director, KKNPP. Addressing the Republic Day celebrations held at Anu Vijay Township, the residential complex …
Says the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board has violated its own norms on ‘plant siting’ Poovulagin Nanbargal, a non-governmental organisation, has written to the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB), for violating its own guidelines with regard to setting up nuclear power plants and for giving ‘siting consent’ for Kudankulam Nuclear Power …
The first 1,000-MWe reactor of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project that commenced commercial power generation on October 22, 2013 has earned a profit of Rs. 1,000 crore (prior to tax) for the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited, the proponent of the project. During an informal chat with reporters here on …
The controversy regarding the operation of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant units 3 to 6 appears to have come to an end with the southern bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) dismissing a petition against the clearance given to the plant. Earlier, G Sundar Rajan, trustee of Poovulagin Nanbargal (friends …
Unit II of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant was scheduled to criticality by Monday night and reconnected to the southern grid by Tuesday evening. Unit II which attained criticality on July 12 was connected to the grid for the first time on August 28. After this, it was shut for tests.Unit …
The Indian government has put renewed vigour into nuclear power plans as part of its infrastructure development programme, with negotiations on to unlock long-standing agreements with French, Russian and US companies, said a report released here today. "Its overall goal is to have 14.5 GWe (Gigawatt or one billion watts …
On Saturday, PM Narendra Modi and Russian President Putin dedicated second unit, which is expected to start commercial production soon, to the country The third and fourth reactors of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP), in Tirunelveli district, Tamil Nadu, are expected to start power production in around six years, according …
With Russian President Vladimir Putin scheduled to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday for the 17th India-Russia Annual Summit, both sides are getting ready to sign the inter-governmental agreement for the “third phase” of the Kudankulam nuclear power plant. Sources said that the two sides are likely to sign the …
India currently generates 6,780 MW of nuclear electricity. To meet the high cost of Light Water Reactors, the government has decided to bring in such projects, which currently involve foreign collaborators, as joint ventures (JVs) with public sector undertakings (PSUs). This will also allow the Nuclear Power Corporation of India …
