Nuclear Research

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding deterioration of Nayar river, Uttarakhand, 05/06/2025

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …

North Korea Says It Will Halt Talks and Restart Its Nuclear Program

North Korea, angered by a United Nations rebuke of its recent missile launching, declared on Tuesday that it would permanently pull out of nuclear disarmament talks and restart its nuclear program. It also expelled United Nations inspectors from the country. The moves, which came hours after the United Nations Security …

U.S. to Join Iran Talks Over Nuclear Program

The Obama administration said Wednesday that the United States would start participating regularly with other major powers in negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program. The decision was a further step toward the direct engagement with Iran that President Obama has promised. It followed an invitation to Iran to join …

Obama Sets Out Plan For Nuclear-Free World

President Barack Obama set out his vision for ridding the world of nuclear arms on Sunday, declaring the United States ready to lead steps by all states with atomic weapons to slash their arsenals. Delivering a speech given new urgency by North Korea's rocket launch hours earlier, Obama said the …

Wanted: Young brains for N-tech - Experts of nuclear fusion technology in search of talents at BIT Mesra

BIT, Mesra, vice-chancellor P.K. Barhai (left) felicitates Malaviya National Institute of Technology director R.P. Dahiya during the meet in Ranchi on Monday. Picture by Hardeep Singh Ranchi, Dec. 15: The dream of clean and danger-free nuclear energy through nuclear fusion would become a reality in the country only by 2050. …

Performance audit on management of fuel for pressurised heavy water reactors (front-end of the nuclear fuel cycle)

The audit report conducted by the Comptroller and Auditor General on management of fuel for Pressurized Heavy Water Reactors (PHWRs). DAE has been blamed for being unable to exploit the country

BARC develops 4th gen uranium enrichment gas centrifuges

MUMBAI: As part of India's strategic programme, the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) has developed fourth generation uranium enrichment gas centrifuges with an output of more than 10 times the earlier design, a top BARC official has said. "An experimental cascade of the fourth generation design is in operation at …

Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research

IGCAR was established in the year 1971, under the Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India. The centre is engaged in broad based multidisciplinary programme of scientific research and advanced engineering directed towards the development of Fast Breeder Reactor technology.

Bhabha Atomic Research Centre

A premier multi-disciplinary research centre of India having excellent infrastructure for advanced research and development with expertise covering the entire spectrum of nuclear science and engineering and related areas.

Department of Atomic Energy

The Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) is a department within the Ministry of Science and Technology in India. The department is responsible for nuclear technology, including nuclear power and research.

IIT-Madras plans nuclear technology courses

In comes the deal, so does the demand. Even as dust over the Indo-US nuclear deal is yet to settle in the political circles, the academia is moving forward to meet the demand for hundreds of trained hands to man the power stations envisaged for the future. Indian Institute of …

Atomic research not harmful

Coming down heavily on activists for spreading

Low energy nuclear reaction research Global scenario

This article reviews highlights of low energy nuclear reaction research, part of the field of condensed matter nuclear science. The field evolved from the so-called cold fusion discovery of two electrochemists, Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons at the University of Utah. Since the announcement of their discovery in 1989, more …

Asking a judge to save the world

Giant Particle Accelerator Could Create Black Hole That Might Eat Up Earth: Lawsuit More fighting in Iraq. Somalia in chaos. People in this country can't afford their mortgages and in some places now they can't even afford rice. None of this nor the rest of the grimness on the front …

Let s not chase the atom

The Indo- us nuclear deal raises two critical questions. Do we need a large-scale expansion of nuclear power? Do we need to expand our arsenal of weapons of mass destruction? The answer to both is no. Any evaluation of the potential role of nuclear power should begin with the history …

Arms and the man

Prisoners of the Nuclear Dream

The other side of matter

star trek's antimatter-driven warp drive may still be a fantasy but the idea of antimatter itself got a fillip. The ever-controversial Geneva-based European Organisation for Nuclear Research (cern) has recently produced antihydrogen

Cause for concern

• Aboriginal children living a semi-traditional lifestyle ... were shown to be the critical group for radiation protection purposes • The inhalation of plutonium dust presents the most significant potential health hazard arising from residual contamination of the Maralinga area • If in time the Maralinga Tjarutja were to move …

Dumping nuclear burden

the Australian government is being bombarded with criticism for deciding to hand back a 3.2 lakh hectare (ha) site to its traditional aboriginal owners despite fresh evidence surfacing that the land is still toxic from nuclear tests conducted 40 years ago. Maralinga, the tract in question, is located in the …

Backroom deals

harlan Watson, the high-profile us senior climate change negotiator and special representative, arrived in Delhi on April 29, 2002. On the same day, the Confederation of Indian Industry (cii) began closed-door parleys with the Washington-based think-tank, Atlantic Council. Watson did the rounds of various ministries even as cii got on …

Green laws resented

in a recent report, the parliamentary standing committee on energy has observed that stringent environmental regulations hinder the progress of projects conducted by the Union government's Department of Atomic Energy (dae). The report has also emphasised the need to promote nuclear energy. Critical of strict environmental regulations, the committee reports …

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