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 …
It has produced 69 crore units since inception in October 2013. The first unit at Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KKNPP) has, so far, produced 69 crore units of power ever since production started in October 2013, its Site Director, R.S. Sundar, said here on Thursday. He was here to flag …
The Supreme Court on Monday sought response from Centre and Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) on implementation of safety guidelines issued by it for Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in Tamil Nadu. A bench headed by Justice K S Radhakrishnan asked the authorities to file report within three weeks on a …
The Supreme Court on Monday sought response from Centre and Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) on implementation of safety guidelines issued by it for Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in Tamil Nadu. A bench headed by Justice K S Radhakrishnan asked the authorities to file report within three weeks on a …
Interim Budget 2014-2015 - Speech of P. Chidambaram. In the speect he stated that "The Global Risks 2014 report has mapped 31 global risks. Of highest concern are ten risks that include fiscal crisis, structurally high unemployment or underemployment, income disparity, governance failure, food crisis, and political and social instability. …
The president of Indian Association of Nuclear Chemists and Allied Scientists of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), K. L. Ramkumar, on Monday said that the Department of Atomic Energy had taken steps to allay the fears of people over the safety of nuclear power projects across the country, particularly the …
New Delhi : As the generation cost for nuclear power plants — to be set up with the help of French and American companies — is turning out to be on the higher side, the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) is in a fix. While it is involved in hard …
The Supreme Court sought responses from the Centre and the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) Monday on a petition seeking a stay on commissioning of the Kudankulam nuclear power plant in Tamil Nadu. The court is hearing a petition by G Sundarrajan, on whose plea it had issued a slew …
Efforts underway to allay suppliers' concerns on liability Increasing India’s nuclear capacity to 63,000 Mw by 2032 from the present 4,780 Mw was achievable, said R K Sinha, chairman, the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). The chairman said the country was pursuing the capacity addition through both indigenously manufactured reactors and …
The first unit (1000 MWe) of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP), is now generating 370 MWe and electricity is being wheeled into the southern grid, according to R.S. Sundar, Site Director, Kudankulam-1 and 2. Two Russian reactors, each with a capacity of 1,000 MWe, had been built at the …
Power started flowing from the first reactor of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) since Sunday early morning after its turbine, which was stopped for a series of mandatory tests on last Tuesday, was resynchronised with the southern grid at 1.30 a.m. KKNPP sources said the turbine that initially generated 60 …
Vouching for the safety of the Russian technology running the reactor at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant, an envoy on Tuesday said the first reactor would begin commercial production in December. The 1,000-MW reactor, which attained criticality on July 13, was synchronised with the southern regional power grid on October …
The turbine of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project’s first reactor which was resynchronized with the southern gridlast Friday, was stopped again on Tuesday “for a series of mandatory tests”. After the 1,000 MWe capacity reactor was synchronised with the grid for the first time with 160 MWe, last Tuesday at …
The average power generated Oct 26 was 165 MW For the second day in succession, the first unit of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) Sunday generated 188 MW power and increased its average out put as compared to the previous day. The average power generated Oct 26 was 165 MW, …
KKNPP administration would establish an information centre shortly to dispelfears about nuclear reactors, radiations, etc. Besides executing community development programmes in the villages around Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project site, the KKNPP administration would establish an information centre shortly to dispel fears about nuclear reactor, radiation and other related issues, Site …
Nuclear Power Corp. of India Ltd., the nation’s sole atomic energy producer, test-started part of a $2.84 billion reactor today after a delay of six years amid protests from local residents. The first unit of the Kudankulam plant in the southern state of Tamil Nadu was operated for two hours …
The 1,000-MWe nuclear plant generated 160 MWe before being halted for routine check. The first 1,000-MWe unit of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project, now but one stage away from commission, was on Tuesday synchronised with the southern regional grid. Initially, at 2.45 a.m., the first reactor generated 75MWe and gradually …
The Sri Lankan government today expressed concern over a possible nuclear threat from the controversial Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in Tamil Nadu in Southern India as it went into operation for the first time. The Sri Lankan government on Tuesday said it could not rule out the possibility of a …
Plant’s imminent connection to the grid cited as an example of robust civil nuclear cooperation. With the agreement on the supply of two more Russian reactors to the Kudankulam nuclear power project stumbling over liability concerns, both India and Russia on Monday seized on Unit 1’s imminent connection to the …
Keen on sealing the agreement for two more nuclear reactors in Kudankulam during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to Russia next week, India has suggested a way to quantify the insurance risk amount for Russian suppliers to try and cross the civil nuclear liability roadblock that has held up the …
S.P. Udayakumar, who has been coordinating the ongoing protests against the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project, on Thursday said he was prepared to leave the coastal hamlet of Idinthakarai, the epicentre of the two-year-old agitation, to meet the Chief Minister and air his grievances pertaining to the project. “If the police …
