Japan K Pathak, Gandhinagar: Gujarat government is exploring possibilities for establishing a nuclear power plant in the State. In the annual budget presented by Finance Minister Kanubhai Desai, a Rs. 1 crore allocation is made for consultancy to explore the possibilities to establish a nuclear power plant in Gujarat. The grant is allocated to Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Limited (GUVNL) for consultancy work. The State presently has a nuclear energy plant at Kakrapar, which comes under the Central ...Read More

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

Surat: Unit  of Kakrapar Atomic Power Station(KAPS) which was non functional for last over two years due to leakage has now achieved criticality and resumed nuclear fission chain reaction in reactor at full capacity. 220 MWe KAPS  unit achieved criticality at 2.22 am on Monday after fulfilling all procedures as per the prescribed norms and procedures. Unit  was non functional since March 2016 due to heavy coolant water leakage incident following which both reactors had stop functioning. Proce...Read More

TOKYO: Japan and India are likely to sign a civil nuclear cooperation pact during Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Japan scheduled to take place in mid-November, the Mainichi newspaper reported on Saturday. The governments of Asia’s second-and third-largest economies are leaning toward holding a summit meeting between Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe, the report said, citing unidentified diplomatic sources from both nations. The signing of the civil nuclear co...Read More

Kudankulam (TN):Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa today jointly dedicated to the nation the 1,000 MW Nuclear Power Plant-I here, assuring it was one of the safest atomic plants in the world. Speaking on the occasion through video conferencing from New Delhi, Modi said Kudankulum 1, an Indo-Russian project, was an important addition to the continuing efforts to scale up production of clean energy in India. "I have...Read More