The country’s first 500-MW prototype fast breeder reactor (PFBR), which is being set up at Kalpakkam near Chennai, is expected to go critical early next year and commercial generation of electricity is expected in March 2015. S.C. Chetal, director at the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) that designed the PFBR, said, “Construction activities [...]
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GEI bags contract from NPCIL
GEI Industrial Systems has bagged a contract from NPCIL for engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of heavy water upgrading plant and waste management plant for 2 x 700 MW PHWR type Rajasthan Atomic Power Project-7&8. The waste management plant is meant for processing liquid and solid nuclear waste generated by the nuclear power stations before [...]
ONGC to invest in NPCIL
Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) is planning to take up to 49 per cent stake in one of the five proposed nuclear power plants of Nuclear Power Corp of India Ltd (NPCIL). According to an official, the company is in discussions with NPCIL for incorporating a joint venture for setting up a nuclear power [...]
Reasons to say no to nuclear energy
At a time when protests have resumed once again in Koodankulam against the Nuclear Power Project, consulting editor of The Weekend Leader, Sam Rajappa, lists out 10 reasons given by scientists who are opposed to India opting for nuclear energy. Nuclear power involves radiation exposure at all stages of its fuel cycle: from uranium mining [...]
NALCO plans to enter nuclear power
State-owned aluminium major NALCO said it is planning to diversify into nuclear power generation by investing Rs 11,450 crore jointly with Nuclear Power Corporation of India in a project. Speaking at the annual general meeting, CMD of NALCO B L Bagra, said that the company has identified Kakarapar Atomic Power Station (KAPS) – 3 & [...]
Survey to set up 2 reactors at Kaiga
Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited and the Forest Department have been reportedly carrying out a survey at Kaiga project to locate the site for reactor number five and six, said sources. The two new units coming up now at the station will have generating capacity of 700 MW each. An area of 120 hectares [...]