The Nuclear Fuel Complex in Hyderabad, India, set a world record for nuclear fuel production in 2015-16 with 1,503 tons of fuel produced. This is the second year in a row that NFC, a component of India's Department of Atomic Energy, has produced the most fuel of any plant, and...
Gravitational-Wave Observatory to Be Set Up in India
A month after the discovery of gravitational waves, a memorandum of understanding for building a state-of-the-art LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) project in the country, was signed between the National Science Foundation U.S.A. and India's Department of Atomic Energy and Department of Science and Technology. LIGO-India will collaborate with the...
Canada’s Cameco Inc., To Supply Uranium to India
In a $280 million deal, Cameco Inc., the world's third-largest uranium producer, has signed a supply agreement with the Department of Atomic Energy of India to provide 7.1 million pounds of uranium concentrate to be supplied over the next five years, reports CNN Money. The uranium is to be sourced...
Kudankulam Nuclear Units 3, 4, to Go Commercial in 2020-2021
The proposed units 3 and 4, the twin 1,000-MW reactors at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project, have cleared all administrative and statutory clearances and are proposed for to begin construction in 2015 and 2016. Commissioning is scheduled five years after that. Unit 1 is in production and Unit 2 is...
India Reports “forward looking” Talks with U.S. Nuclear Energy Advance Team
Ahead of President Barack Obama’s visit to India in late January 2015, a meeting of a US-India contact group took place in New Delhi to have discussions on civil nuclear cooperation. The negotiators included U.S. industry representatives from GE-Hitachi and Westinghouse and counterparts from the Nuclear Power Corporation of India,...
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...