How a critical recent milestone proved India doubters wrongIndia has achieved a major milestone with its new fast-breeder nuclear reactor reaching criticality. This marks a significant step in a dec...
23 Apr, 2026, 12.25 PM IST
Moment to take advantage of avenues of expansion is nowIndia aims to significantly expand its nuclear power capacity. This requires legislative changes and a new ecosystem. The goal is 250 GW of...
07 Jul, 2025, 12.10 AM IST
US EPA faces legal challenge over radioactive waste use in Florida road projectThe US Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, is facing a lawsuit from the Centre for Biological Diversity for approving a road project e...
04 Mar, 2025, 07.13 PM IST
Sweden starts building 100,000 year storage site for spent nuclear fuelSweden has commenced construction on a final storage facility for spent nuclear fuel, set to store highly radioactive waste for 100,000 yea...
15 Jan, 2025, 10.37 PM IST
Power cut at Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear plant: operatorThe nuclear power plant "was fully disconnected from the power grid," it said in a statement on its Facebook page, adding that military ope...
09 Mar, 2022, 05.26 PM IST
Is it green, or forever toxic? Nuclear rift at climate talksAs negotiators plot out how to fuel the world while also reducing carbon emissions at climate talks in Scotland, nuclear power is a central...
04 Nov, 2021, 02.58 PM IST
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...
25 Oct, 2015, 10.29 AM IST
Lesson for India: Why reprocessing of spent fuel from nuclear reactors makes little senseRecent media reports suggest that all is not well within the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) in Trombay, Mumbai.
23 Aug, 2015, 12.04 PM IST
Environment Ministry seek public comments on draft waste management rulesThe Ministry has sought the opinion within 60 days on the rules put out separately for managing bio-medical waste, municipal solid waste, p...
09 Apr, 2015, 05.03 PM IST
IAEA urges India to take further action for nuclear regulationIndia announced a major deal in January designed to open India's nuclear power sector to US investment.
27 Mar, 2015, 08.51 PM IST
India can't dump radioactive waste in Lanka, says senior minister RanawakaThe Minister was commenting on the bilateral agreement signed on February 16 in New Delhi on cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear en...
21 Feb, 2015, 03.32 PM IST
India, Finland to cooperate in civil nuclear energyIndia and Finland today signed 19 agreements including one for peaceful use of nuclear energy as well as management of radioactive waste.
15 Oct, 2014, 09.08 PM IST
Panel seeks more details on proposed nuke plant in HaryanaThe proposal is for setting up a nuclear power park (4x700 MWe), to be implemented in phases at Gorakhpur in Fatehabad district along with ...
31 Mar, 2013, 12.07 PM IST
- BARC scientists recover uranium, cobalt-60 from N-waste
Use of radiation-resistant micro- organisms have enabled scientists of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) to recover heavy metals like ur...
10 Apr, 2011, 02.21 PM IST
- Delhi University is country's only radioactive polluter: AERB
Delhi University has earned the dubious distinction of being the country's only violator of radioactive waste disposal norms, according to ...
20 Jun, 2010, 03.03 PM IST
- Govt calls for strengthening hazardous waste management rules
The government has called for strengthening hazardous waste management rules especially at the port level to ensure that such material was ...
29 Apr, 2010, 11.43 PM IST
- Repreocessing rights of plutonium crucial: BARC
Present nuclear power plants utilise only 0.7 per cent of uranium and the remaining 99.3 per cent is the spent fuel Plutonium.
02 Mar, 2007, 12.25 PM IST