The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
The Tummalapalle mine in Andhra Pradesh, commissioned in April, will help meet India’s demand for natural uranium, used in indigenous Pressurised Heavy Water Reactors. The trail has steep slopes and sharp turns everywhere. Wearing helmet headlamps and gumboots, we hopped on to a “passenger carrier” to begin our trip to …
With the technology hurdle no longer in the way, India is readying thorium supplies to fuel its pilot advanced heavy water reactor (AHWR) that is currently in the works. On July 7, the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) proposed amendments to the 1998 Policy on Exploitation of Beach Sand Minerals …
A public hearing for granting environment clearance to the upcoming 4 X 700 MW Haryana Atomic Power Project will be held at Gorakhpur in Haryana on July 17, 2012. Read and share this EIA report of the project. The Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) is intended to setup …
Even as imported reactor-based atomic power projects are facing tardy progress, domestic nuclear sector firms are cashing in big-time on the demand for specialised nuclear services globally. The Heavy Water Board (HWB) has bagged a big export order for supplying 11,000 kg “high purity heavy water” from the US-based Linde …
In its robust performance, the State-run Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) generated 32,455 million units (MUs) of power during the year ending March 31, surpassing its previous electricity generation record of 26,473 MUs during the previous financial year. With its power generation having gone by 23 per cent …
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will shortly provide financial assistance worth Rs.1,774 crore for the second phase of a lift canal project in Nagaur district of Rajasthan to provide drinking water to 978 villages and seven towns. The water will be brought from the Indira Gandhi Canal Project. A …
Rawatbhata (Rajasthan), 17 JULY: India will begin construction of its 25th nuclear power plant with the first pour of concrete for the 700-MW indigenous Pressurised Heavy Water Reactor (PHWR) here tomorrow. The 700-MW PHWR will be the seventh nuclear plant at the Rajasthan Atomic Power Station (RAPS), which already has …
PM orders technical review of plants to check if they can withstand major disasters The Government, which banks on nuclear power to reduce dependence on petroleum, has refrained from backing a call for review of its policy, following the meltdown of two reactors in Japan. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told …
India has not only mastered the complex technology of heavy water production making it self-reliant, but also exports high quality heavy water to countries like Republic of Korea and the United States, said A L N Rao, Chairman and Chief Executive, Heavy Water Board on Monday. Heavy Water (D2O) is …
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
Mumbai: India today announced it has designed a new version of Advanced Heavy Water atomic reactor which will use lesser low enriched uranium along with thorium as fuel and having next generation safety requirements. "A new version of AHWR named Advanced Heavy Water Reactor-Low Enriched Uranium (AHWR-LEU) that uses low …
By K S Parthasarathy Techonology for heavy water is being developed. This may lower energy consumption by 60 pc. It is six decades since Dr Homi Jehangir Bhabha, the architect of nuclear India, initiated moves to make heavy water as a strategic material; he dreamt that India should produce large …
KOCHI: India is proposing to join the World Institute for Nuclear Security (WINS) for sharing information on how to safeguard its nuclear installations. "We have to prevent any undesirable elements from sabotaging or thieving," said M R Srinivasan, member and former chairman, Atomic Energy Commission. Talking on the sidelines after …
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
Leak At Pakistan Atomic Energy Site Kills Two PAKISTAN: April 9, 2008 ISLAMABAD - A gas leak killed two people on Tuesday at a heavy water plant run by Pakistan's atomic energy agency in central Punjab province, a spokesman for the agency said. The leak at the Khushab heavy water …
Little is publicly known about the efficiency and economics of heavy water production at the Department of Atomic Energy’s facilities. We estimate the cost of producing heavy water at the Manuguru plant by analysing the available budget figures and assuming reasonable values for other factors that affect the cost and …
In the presence of Atomic Energy Commission (aec) chairman Anil Kakodkar and India's distinguished nuclear scientists and personnel who had made this possible, Unit 3 of the 540 mw Tarapur Atomic Power Station (taps) attained criticality (nuclear parlance for an atomic plant becoming operational), with the start of a self-sustaining …
There was no way India could have compromised on excluding its Fast Breeder Test Reactor (FBTR) and 500 MWe Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) from safeguards, according to Dr. Anil Kakodkar, Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission, and Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy (DAE). "It was a logical position.... I am glad …
