Fuel of future
The Tummalapalle mine in Andhra Pradesh, commissioned in April, will help meet India’s demand for natural uranium, used in indigenous Pressurised Heavy Water Reactors. The trail has steep slopes and sharp
Heavy Water
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India designs new atomic reactor for thorium utilisation
Mumbai: India today announced it has designed a new version of Advanced Heavy Water atomic reactor which will use lesser low enriched uranium along with thorium as fuel and having next generation safety requirements.
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India's heavy water project comes of age
By K S Parthasarathy Techonology for heavy water is being developed. This may lower energy consumption by 60 pc.
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India to join WINS for nuclear security
KOCHI: India is proposing to join the World Institute for Nuclear Security (WINS) for sharing information on how to safeguard its nuclear installations. "We have to prevent any undesirable elements from sabotaging or thieving," said M R Srinivasan, member and former chairman, Atomic Energy Commission.
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Performance audit on management of fuel for pressurised heavy water reactors (front-end of the nuclear fuel cycle)
The audit report conducted by the Comptroller and Auditor General on management of fuel for Pressurized Heavy Water Reactors (PHWRs). DAE has been blamed for being unable to exploit the country
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Leak At Pakistan Atomic Energy Site Kills Two
Leak At Pakistan Atomic Energy Site Kills Two PAKISTAN: April 9, 2008 ISLAMABAD - A gas leak killed two people on Tuesday at a heavy water plant run by Pakistan's atomic energy agency in central Punjab province, a spokesman for the agency said. The leak at the Khushab heavy water plant took place during its annual maintenance. The plant was closed at the time. "The situation was immediately brought under control and two workers lost their lives while controlling the incident," a spokesman for Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) said.
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Nuclear fuel cycle assessment of India: a technical study for U.S.India cooperation
The recent civil nuclear cooperation proposed by the Bush Administration and the Government of India has heightened the necessity of assessing India
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Heavy subsidies in heavy water: Economics of nuclear power in India
<p>Little is publicly known about the efficiency and economics of heavy water production at the Department of Atomic Energy’s facilities. We estimate the cost of producing heavy water at the Manuguru
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A critical mark
In the presence of Atomic Energy Commission (aec) chairman Anil Kakodkar and India's distinguished nuclear scientists and personnel who had made this possible, Unit 3 of the 540 mw Tarapur Atomic Power Station (taps) attained criticality (nuclear parlance for an atomic plant becoming operational), with the start of a self-sustaining nuclear fission chain reaction in the reactor core.
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Of safeguards and India's needs
There was no way India could have compromised on excluding its Fast Breeder Test Reactor (FBTR) and 500 MWe Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) from safeguards, according to Dr. Anil Kakodkar, Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission, and Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy (DAE). "It was a logical position....
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A prototype of promise
The construction of the Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor, a milestone on the road to energy security, begins at Kalpakkam in Tamil Nadu. AS the 40-metre-tall tower crane's boom (arm) lifts up an L-shaped