Workers employed at the Jaitapur nuclear power project site at Madban village have fled after the violent incidents on April 18 when a mob damaged equipment and indulged in arson.

A Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) spokesperson on Thursday told The Hindu on the phone that workers have left since the situation was not conducive to staying there.

Chandigarh Haryana government has shortlisted two locations for setting up its second nuclear power plant.

Paris: French energy group Areva expects to sign the commercial agreement with staterun Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) for supply of nuclear reactors by the middle of 2011 and is ready to answer any questions that Indian authorities may have over safety, its chief operating officer has said.

Luc Oursel said the company is taking into consideration lessons from Fukushima but no o

Police caned protesters and imposed an indefinite curfew in Ratnagiri town in the Konkan region of Maharashtra as tension mounted Tuesday, a day after a local fisherman who was part of a mob rioting against the nuclear power project in Jaitapur, was shot dead by police.

Tabrez Tehekar of Nate village was killed in the firing Monday afternoon.

Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) on Tuesday said its consortium with Alstom had won a Rs.1,600-crore contract for steam turbine generators for the Kakrapar nuclear power station in Gujarat from Nuclear Power Corporation of India.

Land acquisition is becoming a hindrance to the setting up of nuclear power plants.

Kitlana in Bhiwani or Balsamand in Hisar likely site
Haryana is betting high on nuclear power.

The Haryana Government had also selected two places

A team of the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL), which is setting up a nuclear power plant at Gorakhpur in Fatehabad, would shortly meet Haryana officials to clear the misgivings related to the recent nuclear mishap in Fukushima, Japan, as also sensitise state officials about the safety preparedness of Indian atomic power projects.

The NPCIL team headed by KB Dixit, executive d

India's nuclear plants may soon get some additional safety features, including more provisions to add water to the reactors to deal with over heating of the core, a condition that led to the Fukushima nuclear accident.

The measures are part of six recommendations made by four separate task forces set up by the country's nuclear plant operator NPCIL to study the capability of handling extended p