According to thIS new publication, about 600 million people and 10 million small businesses in Africa have no reliable source of electricity, and increasingly, connection to a national grid is no guarantee
Plants should source equipment, services from the US. Export-Import Bank of the United States (EX-IM Bank) is open to funding Indian nuclear power projects that will source equipment and services from the US. If a US company is involved in providing equipment and services for nuclear power project in India, the Ex-Im Bank could look at such a proposal, Chairman and President James Lambright said on Tuesday. The mandate of the US government-owned Ex-Im is to promote exports.
As the energy demand in the country was growing by leaps and bounds, the India-United States nuclear deal was important to meet the nation's energy needs and get access to uranium from abroad, Minister of State for Power Jairam Ramesh told journalists on the sidelines of a NTPC function here on Monday. Mr. Ramesh said the country faced severe uranium shortage and its nuclear plants were running at only 50 per cent capacity. To get access to uranium reserves and sources around the world, it was important that the deal materialised.
Former president A P J Abdul Kalam was on Sunday all praise for the "courage' shown by then PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee in deciding to go for Pokhran tests within weeks of assuming office in March 1998. "Vajpayee gave us the permission within a week of assuming the political office, to establish India's expertise,' Kalam said at a function at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the
India's continuing progress in scientific field is commendable. Our scientists have found out the formula which would produce electricity from thorium. Scientists have completed the first phase of ambitious project of producing electricity from thorium. Having a little capacity the main aim of this facility is to design parameter of thorium reactor of 300mw power project. The scientists team which has got preliminary success in producing electricity from thorium, deserves all accolades.
Research currently underway to increase the burn-up (cumulative amount of energy extracted from a unit mass of fuel) of the oxide fuel that will be used in fast breeder reactors will help in reducing the cost of electricity generated. The oxide fuel to be used in the Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) coming up at Kalpakkam will have a burn-up of 1,00,000 MW days/tonne. Scientists at the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) are working to increase the burn-up of the oxide fuel to 1,50,000 MW days/tonne by 2011 and ultimately to 2,00,000 MW days/tonne. Advanced oxide
John McCain embraces it. Barack Obama wants to address its flaws. Hillary Clinton is cautious but not opposed. Nuclear power -- controversial in the United States and throughout much of the world -- is on the agenda of all three US presidential candidates as they seek to diversify the country's energy mix and reduce dependence on foreign oil. Interviews with top policy advisers to the three White House hopefuls reveal a varied approach to the technology that some observers see as a necessary answer to fighting climate change and others view as expensive and dangerous.
Russian and U.S. officials signed an important agreement on civilian nuclear power on Tuesday that will give the U.S. access to Russian technology and could hand Moscow lucrative deals for storing spent fuel. The deal, signed on the eve of Dmitry Medvedev's inauguration as President, signals a reversal in U.S. policy on cooperating with Russia on nuclear issues. Cooperation had cooled in recent years, mainly due to disagreements over how to handle the perceived nuclear threat from Iran.
Plans are afoot to reuse spent reactor fuel in the U.S. But the advantages of the scheme pale in comparison with its dangers.
US Senate attacks delay on Syria nuclear claims TOP US politicians have questioned why the US revealed only this week that Syria had built a military-oriented nuclear plant, and asked why Washington had not shared its intelligence with the UN's nuclear watchdog. "I was surprised that they hadn't given the information to the International Atomic Energy Agency," Senator Diane Feinstein, a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said on CNN on Sunday.
Opposition protesters marched through the capital of Belarus on Saturday to mark the 22nd anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and denounce plans to build an atomic power station in the ex-Soviet state. Belarus was the country most affected by the world's worst nuclear accident and the anniversary is traditionally the year's biggest rally for opponents of President Alexander Lukashenko, accused in the West of violating fundamental human rights.
