The Atomic Energy Commission of India has approved an investment of over $2 billion in thirteen new uranium projects as well as the expansion of an existing mining project at Jharkhand, a state located in the northeastern part of the country. C.K. Asnani, chairman and managing director of state-owned Uranium...
India Appoints New Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission
According to an official order issued by the Government of India, renowned scientist Kamlesh Nilkanth Vyas has been appointed as the secretary of the Department of Atomic Energy and chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. Vyas, who is currently director of the Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC), has been appointed...
Europe's Nuclear Research Center Adds India as Member
India will become an associate member of particle physics research organization CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research headquartered in Geneva, subject to final approval by the Indian government. An agreement by CERN's director general Fabiola Gianotti and the chairman of India's Atomic Energy Commission, Sekhar Basu was signed on November...
India Appoints Sekhar Basu as Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission
Dr Sekhar Basu was appointed as Secretary of India's Department of Atomic Energy and chairman of the country's Atomic Energy Commission. Basu, who is director of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre and chief executive of the Nuclear Recycle Board, takes over from Dr R.K. Sinha who retired in October. DNA...
India's State-Run Reinsurer May Offer Nuclear Liability Coverage
India is working to set up an insurance pool to indemnify global nuclear suppliers against liability in the case of a nuclear accident, in a bid to resolve concerns of suppliers over exposure to risk. The 2010 nuclear liability law discouraged Western companies and strained U.S.-India relations as companies said...
Jitendra Singh, Minister of Space and Nuclear Energy
Dr. Jitendra Singh is a man who wears many hats -- author, physician, columnist and a politician. Singh joined Narendra Modi's Bhartiya Janata Party in 2009 and is a member of the party's National Executive Committee. The Modi government has appointed him as the Union Minister of State for Atomic...