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 …
40 feared dead in Iran, 20 in Pakistan; shockwaves felt in North India Pakistan, specifically Balochistan, appears to have borne the brunt of the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that rocked the Iranian border province of Sistan-Baluchestan on Tuesday afternoon. While Pakistan confirmed the death of at least 20 people following the …
Sangam (Allahabad): Sometimes a walk can change your life -- as well as the lives of millions of others. Invited by a temple mahant in Narora in 1998, Harichaitanya Brahmachari of Shriparamhans Ashram in Tikar Mafi, Amethi, was on a stroll with fellow monks when he casually asked if he …
Regulatory inspections of nuclear power plants and research facilities have revealed there have been deviation from technical specifications and other regulatory stipulations, deficiencies and degradations in safety-related systems and procedural inadequacies. The Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB), which carried out 47 regulatory inspections, comprising 25 scheduled and 22 special inspections …
The Sikkim earthquake has not impacted the functioning of the country’s 20 nuclear power plants with a total generation capacity of 4,780 Mw. Their continued function proves that the nuclear power plant structures, systems and equipment have been designed in a way that enables them to take the effect of …
A Bill being prepared to revamp regulation of the nuclear energy sector is expected to propose an independent body, in place of the existing Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB). It envisages the proposed Nuclear Regulatory Authority of India would have full power to stop construction work and also order a …
A world population analysis reveals the locations that could put the most people in danger should a nuclear accident occur. http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110427/full/472400a.html
New Delhi: The radioactive waste, identified as cobalt-60, found in the Mayapuri scrap market last week could have come from more than one source, claims the report submitted by the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board to Delhi Police. The report, however, did not specify where the radioactive waste might have come …
But Says All Preventive Steps Have Been Taken And Radiation Levels Are Receding The Mayapuri radiation scare refuses to die down. Even as experts from BARC claimed that no
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 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 …
