Mumbai: Cirus, the 40 mw research reactor at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (Barc), will be shut down by December 2010 and decommissioned as per the separation plan under the Indo-US civil nuclear deal.
KOLKATA: Thirteen months after it had been called off following a technical fault, the world's most ambitious scientific experiment is set to resume. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, Switzerland, that seeks to simulate the Big Bang, will roll again in November.
India today found an unexpected supporter from Mohammed ElBaradei chief of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in its opposition to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty (NPT).
In an interview to a private television channel, he said he did not expect India to sign the NPT but felt the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty could be more acceptable to New Delhi.
A new report from the Electric Power Research Institute noted that in order to meet climate goals, the U.S. power industry must implement a full portfolio of technologies.
While we agree that we'll have to pull out all the stops in the race to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, we must not trade one problem for another.
Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology (GJU), Hisar, has joined hands with Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Board of Research in Nuclear Science (BRNS), and Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL), for setting up a Centre for Radioecology in the university.
Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (Paec) Chairman Dr Ansar Parvez, has spoken of the plans on the part of the Paec to build many more nuclear power plants, including a few in Karachi, to meet the target of 8,800 MW of electricity from nuclear power as envisaged in the energy security plan.
On a visit to North Korea, the Russian foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, on Thursday predicted a continued stalemate in international efforts to stop the North from restarting its nuclear weapons program.
Chandigarh: A Radio Ecology Centre (REC) is being set up in Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology, Hisar, in collaboration with the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE).
The DAE has sanctioned Rs 5.11 crore for the project, out of which Rs 3.41 crore has already been received by the university, an official spokesman of the university said here yesterday.
