Vietnam plans to embark on an atomic energy programme that might mean the operation of the country's first nuclear plant by 2017, official media reported

Central Electricity Authority has accorded techno-economic clearance to 1000 MW Rihand Super Thermal Power project Stage II to be built by NTPC at a completed cost of Rs 4049 crore. This is a pithead

The airline industry needs more efficient engines, cleaner fuels and new ways of offsetting the impact of fuel consumption on the atmosphere,International Air Transport Association

Ukraine's largest nuclear power plant, Zaporizhska, has completed a storage facility for spent fuel rods and will stop delivering waste to Russia in November, a spokeswoman for the

NPC : There was no radiation leakage at the Narora Atomic Power Station (NAPS), where human error caused one containment door in the reactor building to come off its hinges recently, forcing

the Ministry for petroleum and natural gas has directed all refineries to maintain stringent quality control and provide the necessary facilities to receive and re-process "off-specification"

Solar Millennium Expo and Seminar (Smiles 99), aimed at spreading awareness among the public about the potential of solar energy will be held in Bangalore from October 28 to 31 with its focus on

Radioactive iodine 131 gas at a concentration double that set by the Science and Technology Agency was found to be escaping from exhaust ducts at the JCO Co. Uranium reconversion plant in

NPC : There was no radiation leakage at the Narora Atomic Power Station (NAPS) where human error caused one containment door in the reactor building to come off its hinges recently, forcing

Japan's worst ever nuclear accident was caused more by the private operator's failure to follow official regulations than lax oversight by the Government, a top nuclear official Kaoru Mamiya