Articles tagged under: Nuclear Energy

Through fusion process energy needs of 10 billion people can be fulfilled for 100 million years with available water and Lithium alone: DG ITER Dr Bernard Bigot in Gujarat

October 22, 2018
Through fusion process energy needs of 10 billion people can be fulfilled for 100 million years with available water and Lithium alone: DG ITER Dr Bernard Bigot in Gujarat

Gandhinagar: Director General of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), being built in France with the help of 35 countries including US, EU, Russia, Japan, China, Korea and India to explore the possibility of making fusion, the process with which sun and stars produce energy, happen in guided and artificial manner to meet the energy requirements of the world, Dr Bernard Bigot today said that with such a process the life time energy requirements of a human being can be fulf...Read More

Proposed Mithivirdi nuclear power plant project in Gujarat to be shifted to Andhra Pradesh: NGT

June 01, 2017

Bhavnagar: The Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) has recently informed the National Green Tribunal (NGT) to shift the proposed 6,000 megaWatt (MW) Mithivirdi nuclear plant — the first under the Indo-US civil nuclear pact of 2008 — from the coastal district of Gujarat to Kavvada in Andhra Pradesh “on account of delay in land acquisition at Chhaya-Mithivirdi site”. The plant was to be set up by state-owned Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) with technical support...Read More

NPCIL, Westinghouse agree to begin engg work on 6 N-reactors

June 07, 2016

From Lalit K Jha Washington The Nuclear Power Corporation of India and US firm Westinghouse have agreed to begin engineering and site design work immediately for six nuclear power plant reactors in India and conclude contractual arrangements by June 2017, the White House said today. Culminating a decade of partnership on civil nuclear issues, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Barack Obama during their White House meeting "welcomed" the start of preparatory work on site in Ind...Read More

Kakrapar atomic power station may take 3-8 months to recover

April 15, 2016

New Delhi The Kakrapar Atomic Power Station (KAPS) unit 1 in Gujarat, which has been shutdown since March due to radioactive leak, may still take nearly 3-8 months for full recovery. Sources said that Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB), the watchdog of the Indian nuclear sector, is investigating the matter. But a senior Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) official said the plant, which is near Surat, may take around 7-8 months to become fully operational. Kakrapar Ato...Read More

Leakage in Kakrapar Atomic power station detected immediately: Govt

March 16, 2016

New Delhi The recent "incident" of leakage of a coolant pipe in one of the units of the Kakrapar Atomic Power Station in Gujarat was detected "in a few moments", the government said today. Responding to supplementaries in the Lok Sabha during Question Hour, Minister of State in Prime Minister's Office Jitendra Singh said the leakage, which occured four days ago, was an "incident" and not an "accident". To keep the temperature down, alternative systems came into play when the coolant pi...Read More

Probe begins to find cause of heavy water leak at Kakrapar

March 12, 2016

Ahmedabad A day after one of the units of Kakrapar Atomic Power Station (KAPS) near Surat in Gujarat was shut down after heavy water leakage, a team of experts today began a probe to identify the cause of the leak even as officials reaffirmed that there was no radioactive release at the site. Two experts from the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) are at the site to assist KAPS officials in the probe. The experts have been deputed for an independent assessment of the situation a...Read More