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The Sunshine Coast Daily
February 3, 2018
The dome of Jesse Hall, left, is framed between the twin stacks of the power plant at the University of Missouri, as steam from the Callaway nuclear power plant, ... Solar PV and wind are sweeping all other forms of electricity generation aside in Europe, America, China, India, and even impoverished AfricanÃÂ ...
The Hindu
February 3, 2018
With existing constructions and the current capacity of 6,780 MW, India hopes to have 14,600 MW of nuclear power online by 2024. Even as it makes a push for indigenous nuclear power plants, the Department of Atomic Energy is also advocating PHWRs in more inland sites in Rajasthan, Haryana,ÃÂ ...
Poughkeepsie Journal
February 2, 2018
In the Hudson Valley – the birthplace of the modern environmental movement – key issues include the Hudson River PCBs cleanup, possibly allowing barge anchorages in the Hudson, plans to close the Indian Point nuclear power plant, efforts to combat Lyme disease and the emergence of solar farms.
Energy Bangla
February 2, 2018
Since then we have even started private power plants. We passed a law in Parliament and allowed private players as well as foreign investment for private sector to develop in the electricity sector. Within five years the power generated increased to 4,300 MW. The decision to establish a nuclear power plantÃÂ ...
The Hindu
February 1, 2018
A file picture of Kovvada village in A.P. where the Centre proposes to establish a nuclear power plant. | Photo Credit: K.R. ... Another complication could come from the financing of the Westinghouse agreement, which India expects America's Exim bank (Export-Import Bank of the United States) to undertake.
Mail & Guardian
February 1, 2018
India has quadrupled its renewables target and is planning 100 GW of solar power (now cheaper than coal power) by 2022. Over three billion people ... Russia wants to build nuclear power plants but needs huge amounts of capital to finance its nuclear commitments around the world. It hardly appears to beÃÂ ...
POWER magazine
January 30, 2018
Today, more nuclear power plants are operable—and planned, proposed, or under construction—than were in March 2011 before the Fukushima accident. According to the International Atomic Energy Agency, 58 reactors are currently being built around the world, with China, Russia, and India leading theÃÂ ...
Grist
January 26, 2018
As I asked around about this, I focused on one power plant as a case study: Diablo Canyon, which provides 9 percent of California's power and has been ... climate change on the cheap, we should be building clean-power plants in places where electricity demand is actually growing — like India, he said.
News 12 Westchester
January 24, 2018
A strike by nuclear power plant workers has been avoided as an agreement has been reached between union employees and the owners of the Indian Point ... Indian Point is home to two operating nuclear power plants, Unit 2 and Unit 3, which generate approximately 2,000 megawatts of electricity for NewÃÂ ...
Energy Bangla
January 22, 2018
“As per the vision plan prepared, in order to fulfil the requirement of Uranium to fuel nuclear power plants, the DAE will achieve nearly ten-fold rise in uranium production in next 15 years (by 2031-2032). The uranium mining projects have been planned in three phases,” Dr. Singh said. He further elaboratedÃÂ ...
News 12 Westchester
January 20, 2018
Indian Point utility workers, represented by Local 1-2, are seeking a contract that includes a wage increase in medical benefits to cover them until 2020 – one year after the nuclear power plant in Buchanan shuts down. Indian Point utility workers have been threatening to walk off the job if what they considerÃÂ ...
Poughkeepsie Journal
January 20, 2018
The Indian Point nuclear power plant in Buchanan is slated to close in 2021, leaving a sizable gap in the state's energy grid — Indian Point produces approximately 2,000 megawatts daily ... •Will there be progress on finding a future home for nuclear fuel stranded at the nation's nuclear power plants?
Modern Diplomacy
January 19, 2018
The last couple of decades have witnessed increased interest in the extension of the operating life of nuclear power plants. .... The brief, Water Use in India's Power Generation – Impact of Renewables and Improved Cooling Technologies to 2030, finds that depending on the future energy pathwaysÃÂ ...
The News Minute
January 17, 2018
Cost escalations in nuclear plants are common because there are no reasonable estimates of how to process the radioactive waste generated by nuclear power plants. Moreover, cost of decommissioning an aged nuclear power plant is also tough to gauge. “India is being bamboozled by the multinationalsÃÂ ...
Popular Science
January 8, 2018
Cost overruns and delays have hamstrung the few nuclear power plants that were under construction, in South Carolina and Georgia. Even if that ... The choreography of unbuilding a nuclear power plant is complicated and requires hiring companies and workers that specialize in the process. In the case ofÃÂ ...
Power Engineering International
December 31, 1999
More than four-fifths of India's electricity is generated from coal, gas and nuclear power plants which rely significantly on freshwater for cooling purposes. Also, the power sector's share in national water consumption is projected to grow from 1.4 to nine per cent between 2025 and 2050, placing further stressÃÂ ...
Voice of America
December 31, 1999
Water shortages have disrupted India's power plants for years and are likely to worsen as power demands grow and climate change brings more frequent ... The government's plans to meet India's growing energy needs include building more power plants that run on coal, ramping up its nuclear powerÃÂ ...
India.com
December 11, 2017
Cairo, Dec 11 (AFP) Egypt and Russia signed a final contract today for the building of Egypt's first nuclear power plant, during a visit to Cairo by President Vladimir Putin. The contract to build the plant in Dabaa on the Mediterranean coast was signed during a live ceremony shown on state television andÃÂ ...
The Nation
December 11, 2017
The Rooppur nuclear power plant units will contribute substantially to the country s enenrgy security. Rosatom has been working long and successful with India which neighbors Bangladesh, as well as with a list of Asean member states including Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Cambodia andÃÂ ...
Business Facilities Magazine
December 8, 2017
There currently are 449 nuclear power plants operating in 30 countries around the world, with 60 new nuke plants under construction in 15 countries. France, with 58 active plants, has the largest share of electricity generated by nuclear power. China is racing to complete 28 new reactors; India, Russia and ...
The New Indian Express
December 8, 2017
CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu could not realise the full quantum of allocated power from Kudankulam Nuclear Power plant in Tirunelveli district as the first two units are facing technical glitches, according to Electricity ... The minister also highlighted the coal crisis being faced by thermal power plants in the State.
The Indian Express
December 6, 2017
Russia's commitment to collaborate with India in building nuclear power stations in third countries is set to kick-off with Bangladesh's first nuclear power plant being built with Russian assistance. State-owned Russian nuclear utility Rosatom is likely to initiate the cooperation by leveraging Nuclear Power ...
Newsweek
December 6, 2017
Consisting of 35 nations—members of the European Union, China, India, Japan, Korea, Russia, and the U.S.—the reactor, known as a tokamak, will be the ... The building and operating costs of a fusion power plant is expected to be comparable to a nuclear fission plant—but without the risk of a meltdown ...
Firstpost
December 5, 2017
For the first time both units 1 and 2 attained full generation capacity and KNPP and became the first nuclear plant in India to generate 2,000 MW of power," a Rosatom release said. ... Kudankulam, around 650 km from Chennai, has two 1,000 MW nuclear power plants, built with Russian equipment.
Economic Times
December 5, 2017
Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant has so far generated more than 20,000 Million Units of electricity, which helped to avoid around 17,083,874 tonnes of CO2 ... Kudankulam NPP is being constructed in Tamil Nadu in India jointly with Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation within the scope of the ...
Mainstream
December 3, 2017
What he said then about the dangers of the nuclear power plants was proved by the disastrous accidents at Three Mile Island in America, Chernobyl in ... There are several reports suggesting that the radio-active emissions from a nuclear power plant during its normal operation causes adverse impact on ...
Times of India
December 3, 2017
PATIALA: The All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) in a letter to R K Singh Union Power Minister has made several suggestions on the power ... There is absolutely no justification for importing nuclear power plants in a nontransparent manner without adequate information in the public domain, ...
The Tribune
December 3, 2017
Yemen's Houthi group has fired a cruise missile towards a nuclear power plant in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, the group's television service reported on its website on Sunday, without providing any evidence. The Iran-aligned Houthis control much of northern Yemen and had said Abu Dhabi, ...
The Hindu
December 3, 2017
There was an initiative to have a trilateral document and we supported that document. No document is signed yet and it is under negotiation,” said the official. Though India cannot directly take part in the construction of nuclear power plants — as it is not a member of the 48-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
December 2, 2017
In the 1950s, both the United States and the Soviet Union launched their first civilian nuclear power plants. ... The public that lives near the Fukushima power plant say that they are socially stigmatized, and their medical needs aren't being met, according to Norma Field, a Professor Emerita of Japanese ...
World Nuclear News
December 1, 2017
... 2016 approved a Clean Energy Standard (CES) explicitly recognising the zero-carbon contribution of nuclear power plants and ensuring the continued operation of four that had been at risk of premature closure. New York's six reactors - the single-unit FitzPatrick and Ginna plants and the twin-unit Indian ...
The Hindu
November 30, 2017
It is the country's first nuclear power plant. As it is not a member of the 48-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), India cannot directly take part in the construction of nuclear power plants but has individual agreements with Bangladesh and Russia. In December 2014, India and Russia signed the “StrategicÃÂ ...
Patch.com
November 30, 2017
... other nuclear power plants. In 2014, for example, Mangano said the same thing about San Luis Obispo County in California that he is now saying about the counties around Indian Point, alleging that it had changed from a low-cancer to a high-cancer county since the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant ...
International Atomic Energy Agency
November 30, 2017
Russia's BN-800 sodium cooled fast reactor at the Beloyarsk Nuclear Power Plant served as reference technology for an INPRO sustainability ... Mr Chudakov also mentioned INPRO sustainability assessments of three sodium fast reactor designs, conducted by experts from China, India and Russia. “These ...
NDTV
November 30, 2017
India is also helping with the Rooppur nuclear power plant project, Atomic Energy Commission chairman Sekhar Basu was reported as saying by news agency Press Trust of ... New Delhi: Bangladesh has become the newest entrant into the nuclear club with the construction of two atomic power plants.
Dhaka Tribune
November 28, 2017
As of November 2016, 450 nuclear power plants in 30 countries worldwide ... (GCNEP), BAEC and India's Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), to promote cooperation regarding nuclear power plant projects in Bangladesh.
Livemint
November 27, 2017
A containment shelter for the damaged fourth reactor at Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Ukraine's minister of ecology announced a plan in July ...
The Tribune
November 26, 2017
A picture taken on August 19 shows people transporting a bundle of straw close to the construction site of the first Belarus nuclear power plant ...
Poughkeepsie Journal
November 24, 2017
While it's years away, the Indian Point nuclear power plant will close, and there will be huge ramifications, including here in Dutchess County.
CBS New York
November 24, 2017
BUCHANAN, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) – The closing of the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Westchester County might solve one problem, but it's ...
Port Chester Daily Voice
November 22, 2017
U.S. Rep. Nita Lowey on Monday detailed what she will do to make sure the Indian Point nuclear power plants in Buchanan can be shut down ...
Times of India
November 19, 2017
Spokesperson of the All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) V K ... There is absolutely no justification in importing nuclear power plant from firms ... to be reviewed and the alternative of decentralized solar power plants, ...
Economic Times
November 18, 2017
Burns, who is considered to be one of the architects of the India-US civilian ... an exception for India and allow the business of civil nuclear power plant ... and the construction of nuclear power plants in India itself," Burns said.
Economic Times
November 15, 2017
India pushing for Jaitapur nuclear plant despite cost escalation ... largest nuclear power plant when completed -- on to the path of execution.
Times of India
November 13, 2017
(Adds Loviisa-1 under reactors to go out of service, removes completed outages) Nov 13 (Reuters) - Nordic countries have 12 nuclear reactors in operation, eight in Sweden and four in Finland, with a combined capacity of around 11.5 gigawatts (GW). Sweden's Vattenfall operates seven nuclear reactors at ...
Catch News
November 13, 2017
There is a high chance that whenever he visits India, the issue of reviving the Jaitapur nuclear power plant will be on the agenda. ... Those issues remain, but the Narendra Modi Indian government is eager to revive the project spread over 968 hectares whenever Macron comes to India, sources said. In fact ...
The Hindu
November 9, 2017
The world's largest nuclear power plant in terms of capacity (9,900 ... proposal to Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) last year.
Fin24
November 9, 2017
... Russia and India are building nuclear power plants at an enormous ... in the construction and operation of a nuclear power plant equipped ...
Tribune-Review
November 8, 2017
The United States gets more electricity from nuclear power plants than ... China and India, according to the Energy Information Administration.
Business Standard
November 8, 2017
... for Rs 1,000-crore contract for Kudankulam nuclear power plant in Tamil ... India plans to have a nuclear power generation capacity of 63,000Â ...
