Negotiations with French company Areva on the nuclear plant at Jaitapur could restart soon, a senior official of the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) said on Monday.

While exhibits from the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) have been a regular at IIT Bombay’s Techfest, for the first time at this year’s festival, NPCIL addressed the students to

French, Russian regulators say no need to change designs of projects at Jaitapur and Kundankulam.

French major Areva also claims safety of EPRs, but critics not convinced.

The evolutionary pressurised reactors (EPRs) that Areva is interested in supplying to the Nuclear Power Corporation (NPC) as part of the proposed Jaitapur nuclear power in Maharashtra will offer 15 per cent savings on uranium per mega-watt produced as compared to other reactors, according to the French nuclear major.

Effect to vary, though power projects dependent on imported equipment and foreign borrowing may see major cost issue.

Almost two weeks after India announced its much-awaited rules for nuclear liability, France on Tuesday expressed satisfaction that the new rules put responsibility on all the stakeholders, foreign

Declaring his party’s solidarity with the people of Konkan, Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday said if they do not want the atomic power project in Jaitapur, then his party w

As former Atomic Energy Commission chief Anil Kakodkar shared the dais with its current chairman Srikumar Banerjee for the first time in the locality, protesters jeered officials of the Department of Atomic Energy, Atomic Energy Commission, Nuclear Power Corporation and Bhabha Atomic Research Centre.

“You cannot start a reactor if you don't have full confidence of local people”