India's nuclear sector regulator has given the nod for the second 1,000 MW unit at Kudankulam in Tamil Nadu to go critical/start fission process, said an industry official.

Barack Obama, Justin Trudeau and Enrique Peña Nieto will commit to a new regional clean power goal at a summit this week in Ottawa, the White House has said.

At the start of 2015 there were 436 operable reactors around the world and by year-end there were 439. This increase in reactor numbers came despite the retirement of seven units during the year.

Nuclear energy is not at all expensive. It is safe and green energy,” said Dr. N. Saibaba, former Chairman and Chief Executive of the NFC, dispelling the view that nuclear energy is dangerous.

The government is redoubling its efforts to scale up the share of the hydro energy sector in the country’s overall energy mix.

Chennai: Ask a lay person about nuclear energy and the Kudankulam plant and the chances are the images conjured up will be of two big domes against the backdrop of the Bay of Bengal.

Installed electricity generating capacity has grown phenomenally from about 1,400 MW in 1948 to about 157,000 MW in Feb 2010; an increase of 110 times. Annual electricity generation from all sources has increased from about 61,000 MU in 1970-71 to 724,000 MU in 2008-09 an increase of 12 times in 30 years.

The agreement misses Japan’s National Diet session

Greenpeace India released a report titled ‘Red Alert – India’s nuclear disaster plans, outdated and inadequate’. The report assesses India's nuclear disaster plans and concludes that India’s plans do not offer a complete defence-in-depth for existing nuclear plants.

Ranchi: Heavy Engineering Corporation (HEC) has signed a memorandum of understanding with Rosatom, Russia's state nuclear energy corporation, for local manufacture of equipment to be used in the Ku

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