Adopting a fresh approach, an international panel expert report has indicated Australia could give India access to its uranium provided "equivalent disciplines" were applied to help meet disarmament obligations.
Notwithstanding stiff opposition, the Centre today claimed that there are no problems with open cast mining in the North Eastern Region. In a Rajya Sabha reply to a question by Kumar Deepak Das, Minister Mines, Bijoy Krishna Handique said that all the mines in the Region barring Sikkim are open cast.
Surajeet Das Gupta / New Delhi December 14, 2009, 0:06 IST
Varun Energy Corporation, a group company of steel exporter Varun Industries Limited, has acquired uranium mines in Madagascar, an island nation in the Indian Ocean.
Varun Energy is one of the first private Indian companies to acquire rights directly in this business.
SHILLONG Dec 7: The Meghalaya Assembly today dwelt on the proposed uranium mining in the State with Chief Minister DD Lapang reiterating that the Government was yet to give consent to uranium mining.
The Uranium Corporation of India plans to expand its mining and ore processing operations in Jaduguda, Jharkhand, which will require an additional 6.37 hectares of forest land. The public hearing on the environmental clearance in May was a farcical exercise with company employees and their families crowding out the affected villagers.
A defiant President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday that Iran will itself enrich uranium up to 20 per cent purity in a blow to Western efforts to stop Tehran
As the world prepares for the largest investment in nuclear power in decades, owners of uranium mines last week raised the prospect of fuel shortages. To make things worse, the reliability of estimates of the amount of uranium that can be economically mined has also been questioned.
SHILLONG: Union Minister of Minister of Science & Technology and Earth Sciences Prithviraj Chavan on Thursday informed the Lok Sabha that majority of people in Meghalaya supported the proposed uranium mining project in the State.
