India-France making 'satisfactory progress' on nuclear power plant pact: GovernmentThe agreement was exchanged on March 10 last year by the then DAE secretary Sekhar Basu and EDF Chairman Jean Bernard Levy in the presence ...
Indo-French nuclear deal: 10 yrs after its signing power project yield little successThe Indo-French cooperation on 'peaceful use of nuclear energy' was signed on September 30, 2008, primarily for building the Jaitapur Nucle...
IIEST confers D.Litt on ex-President Pranab MukherjeeDirector of IIEST, Prof Ajoy Ray, said Mukherjee was chosen for the honour for his contributions in the fields of society, economics and th...
India collaborating with Russia for nuclear power plant in Bangladesh"We are collaborating with our Russian and Bangladeshi partners on establishing Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant in Bangladesh," Atomic Energy C...
India becomes associate member of CERNBecoming Associate Member of CERN will enhance participation of young scientists and engineers in various CERN projects.
Hope work on 5th, 6th units of KKNPP will start next year: Sekhar BasuBasu noted the first reactor was "operating at full power" while the second one had been "taken out" for safety reasons.
India-US to sign MoU for building LIGO projectIndia and US will sign a Memorandum of Understanding tomorrow for building a state-of-the-art Laser Interferometer Gravitational - wave Obs...
Kudankulam Unit 1 shut due to operational purposes: Jitendra SinghDepartment of Atomic Energy Secretary Sekhar Basu said that a safety review meeting next week will take a call on resuming operations at th...
Foreign hand trying to stall India's atomic programme: AEC chiefAdrian Levy, working for the Centre for Public Integrity in Washington, has levelled serious charges against India's nuclear establishment.
Very serious efforts on to solve nuclear liability insurance issues: AEC chairman Sekhar Basu"With 21 reactors in operation and 10 more under construction, we will reach about 13.5 Gwe by about 2022. Other reactors are also being pl...
Kudankulam delays are on ‘teething problems’, says AEC chairmanDelays at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project are due to “teething problems” common with perfecting a new technology, the chairman of the ...
Small suppliers won't have obligation in case of liability: Sekhar BasuIn a major relief to component suppliers in the nuclear energy sector, government today said they will not have any "obligation" if there i...
Small suppliers won't have obligation in case of accident: Secretary, Department of Atomic EnergyIn a major relief to small suppliers in the nuclear energy sector, government will not hold them responsible if there is any accident, acco...
Waste to Wealth: BARC pioneers new life saving radiation technologyThe global nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has lauded this breakthrough from BARC and promises to popularis...
BARC's gamma ray telescope to be ready by 2017The world's biggest telescope in the northern hemisphere, under construction at Ladakh, would be ready by 2017 and be remotely operated fro...
NPCIL searches for land in Andhra Pradesh for nuclear power plantBhabha Atomic Research Centre's director Sekhar Basu who is a board member of the NPCIL, said here today.
KKNPP Unit-II likely to go critical by August: BARCUnit II of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project is in the advanced stage of commissioning and is likely to go critical by August.