The scientific fraternity has made a renewed pitch for a nuclear power plant in West Bengal where the demand for power has been steadily rising.

The 10,000-MW nuclear power projects at seven sites, including Haripur in East Midnapore, has been approved by Centre and the work of setting up the reactors can be started very soon with the help of Russia, said Mr Srikumar Banerjee, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission today.

Tehran:The malicious Stuxnet computer worm has hit 30,000 industrial computers in Iran, officials said on Sunday, but denied the Islamic republic

New Delhi: State-owned Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd will soon set up a joint venture with Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd and Alstom Ltd for setting up civil nuclear power plants in the country, Heavy Industries secretary Bhawani Singh Meena said on Thursday.

All the three companies will have 33.33% equity each in the joint venture, which would get approval from department of atomic ener

1-Gigawatt Atomic Plant Certain To Raise Safety Concerns With New Delhi, Washington

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Paris: German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday decided to take on anti-nuclear protesters and the country's opposition parties when she and her Cabinet decided to press ahead with plans to extend the life of Germany's nuclear power plants.

Ms. Merkel has consistently argued Germany needs nuclear energy to maintain its impressive recovery.

THE Indian Railways has approached Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) for setting up 1000 mw of captive nuclear capacity on its behalf. The proposal put forward by the Indian Railways includes setting up two units of 500 mw on railway land.

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New Delhi: The first slice of the estimated $200-250 billion business that India can offer to overseas suppliers of nuclear plants and services over the next two decades would go to four firms, including the world

P B Jayakumar / Mumbai August 31, 2010, 2:02 IST

With passage of the nuclear liability Bill, the heavy engineering supply chain, led by Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL), Larsen & Toubro (L&T) and Bharat Forge Ltd (BFL), is gearing to take up the challenge ahead.

India plans 25,000 Mw of nuclear capacity addition by 2020 and this will be partly done through indigenous technology-driven rea