Even as the group protesting Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) upped the ante, the department of atomic energy (DAE) announced Tuesday it would add two more reactors to Kalpakkam Nuclear Plant in an effort to bridge the energy demand-supply gap.

The 500 MW fast-breeder reactors would have additional safety systems and were part of a series of nuclear reactors gearing up across the country to produce 20,000 MWe by 2020, S.C. Chetal, director, IGCAR, Kalpakkam, said.

In a first initiative of its kind, India has begun scouting for deep underground sites to store for several decades the nuclear waste generated from its burgeoning atomic power programme.

In a clear departure from the existing practice of keeping nuclear waste in borosilicate glass containers, the department of atomic energy wants to bury it underground.

Atomic Energy Commission chairman Srikumar Banerjee is pushing for setting up an underground laboratory in an existing uranium mine to study the qualities of the subterranean rock below the mine to see if this can be used to store nuclear waste.

A comment on “The Limits of Safety Analysis: Severe Nuclear Accident Possibilities at the PFBR” by Ashwin Kumar and M V Ramana (EPW, 22 October 2011), followed by a response by the authors themselves.

A comment on “The Limits of Safety Analysis: Severe Nuclear Accident Possibilities at the PFBR” by Ashwin Kumar and M V Ramana (EPW, 22 October 2011), followed by a response by the authors themselves.

Kudankulam seems to be rocking India’s ambitious nuclear power programme.

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The anti-Koodankulam nuclear power project (KKNPP) struggle of the people’s movement against nuclear energy (PMANE) has set off a chain reaction, boosting the other anti-nuke movements in the count

PIL to implement disaster management guidelines of nuclear and radiological emergencies In the High Court of Judicature at Madras dated 10/11/2011. This public interest litigation questions the failure of the respondents to implement the Guidelines on Management of Nuclear and Radiological Emergencies with regard to Madras Atomic Power Station, Kalpakkam, Kancheepuram District.

A top official of Madras Atomic Power Station on Sunday sought to allay fears of people on the safety of nuclear power plants, particularly at Koodankulam, saying there was no need to panic as all

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