Nuclear Weapons

Unsafe and unclean

The centre's decision to set up five new nuclear power projects has caused concern among anti-nuclear activists. They say these projects will feed India's weapons programme. "India's nuclear programme has always been used as a cover for its weapons programme,' says Suren Gadekar, an anti-nuclear activist.

Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd runs 16 plants capable of producing 3,900 MW of power. Seven more with a combined capacity of 3,000 MW are nearly over.

Publication Date:

14/04/2007

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Nuclear Power, Nuclear Safety, Nuclear Power Corporation Of India (NPCIL), Nuclear Weapons, India

India

India, Pak sign 'transperancy treaty'

Officials from India and Pakistan recently signed an agreement on "reducing the risk from accidents relating to nuclear weapons'. The pact, signed in the presence of foreign ministers Pranab

Publication Date:

30/03/2007

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Nuclear Fuel, Nuclear Accidents, Exports, International Cooperation, Nuclear Weapons, Iran, India

India

Six nation deal ends North Korea's nuclear programme

Following a six-nation pact signed in Beijing on February 13, 2007, North Korea agreed to end its nuclear weapons programme in exchange for aid. North Korea has to close down its Yongbyon reactor

Publication Date:

14/03/2007

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Aid, Nuclear Weapons, North Korea

Hazardous Waste

U.S. study finds slower breakdown of plutonium in stockpiled weapons

A new U.S. government analysis has found that the plutonium at the heart of the country's nearly 10,000 stockpiled nuclear weapons could last twice as long as previously thought. That conclusion is likely to escalate the debate over the Bush Administration's campaign to build a new generation of weapons.

Publication Date:

08/12/2006

Author(s): Eli Kintisch

Source: Science

Vol:

314

Issue:

5805

pp:

1526

Tags:

Hazardous Waste, Nuclear Fuel, Nuclear Wastes, Nuclear Weapons, United States Of America (US)

India

Nuclear disarmament a distant goal

Last month, the world remembered the victims of us savagery in Hiroshima and Nagasaki (atomic bombs were thrown on the two cities in August 1945), yet there was the disturbing absence of the call

Publication Date:

29/09/2006

Author(s): S Faizi

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

15

Issue:

20060930

pp:

0

Tags:

International Cooperation, UN, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Proliferation, India, Developing Countries