India must explore uranium aggresively: Atomic energy chief
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Speaking in Lok Sabha during the debate over the nuclear liability bill, Dr Singh said: "To say that this Bill is aimed at advancing US interest is far from truth. History will be the judge."
Keeping in abeyance suggestions of the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council, government on Friday said it has no intention to allow private sector to set up nuclear power plants independently.
An international team has claimed that despite its incredibly tiny size -- a mere four billionth of a metre long -- the quantum dot is a functioning electronic device, the world's first created deliberately by placing individual atom.
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In a major breakthrough in its quest for nuclear technology, India will launch talks with Japan from Monday to seal a civilian atomic cooperation pact that will pave the way for the sale of advanced technology by Japanese firms like Mitsubishi and Hitachi. Terming the development as 'very positive', sources said for Japan, the only country ever attacked with atomic weapons, the decision to go ahead with such a pact with a non-Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty signatory country
The PM chaired the AEC meeting on Saturday.
China is set to ink an agreement with the UN atomic watchdog to firm up cooperation in training and nuclear safety in East Asia and the world during the ongoing visit of its chief Yukiya Amano, in the backdrop of its plans to construct two new nuclear reactors in Pakistan.
The United States on Friday called on members of the 48-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group to support India's membership for the elite atomic trading club during its crucial meeting in Seoul next week.
Pakistan is making qualitative and quantitative improvements to its nuclear arsenal, which is primarily targeted towards India, and could increase the number of circumstances under which it would be willing to use atomic weapons, according to a US Congressional report.
Government on Tuesday said radioactive material found among scrap in Mayapuri in West Delhi, which triggered panic early this month, apparently came from abroad.
Anil Ambani Group firm Reliance Energy, Tata Power, GMR and aluminium manufacturer Nalco are keen to enter nuclear power business, NPCIL Director (Finance) JK Ghai said.
Experts on Friday identified the material -- which led to a 'very powerful' radiation in an industrial area in Delhi -- as Cobalt-60, the exposure to which left five persons injured. Scientists from the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre and Narora Atomic Power Station also scanned Mayapuri industrial area on Friday morning to examine whether there was any other source of a similar emission in the vicinity. Panic was triggered in the locality on Thursday night after the news broke
The analysis of this data that could lead to the discovery of the Higgs boson, also called as the 'God particle', that is believed to have existed when the universe was born, said Prof Satyaki Bhattacharya of Delhi University who is involved in the LHC experiment.
The notification formalities were completed on Thursday night, a crucial step in paving way for the implementation of international civil nuclear cooperation, Department of Atomic Energy sources said.
Science and Technology Minister Prithviraj Chavan, who is in-charge of Department of Atomic Energy, said the country lacks a law under which compensation could be awarded in the case of a nuclear accident.
The union government is planning to set up energy parks in the states of Gujarat, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu with a target to generate 60,000 MW of power through use of nuclear fuel, Srikumar Banerjee, chairman, Atomic Energy Commision (AEC) said.
Three researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology sought hospital care in November 2019, weeks before Beijing disclosed the COVID-19 pandemic, a United States media report said, citing a previously undisclosed American intelligence document that could add weight to growing calls for a full scale probe of whether the coronavirus may have escaped from China's top bio lab.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said the government has no business to be in business and his administration is committed to privatising all PSUs barring the bare minimum in four strategic sectors. "It is government's duty to support enterprises and businesses. But it is not essential that it should own and run enterprises," he said. Modi also said the Centre's policy is to either monetise or modernise public sector enterprises, with the intent that the government has "no business to be in business".
K N Balagopal (Communist Party of India -Marxist) said the Congress and the BJP were acting as A-Team and B-Team and not allowing the House to discuss the bills.
Iran has resumed uranium enrichment, which was suspended under a deal with the European Union and critical questions remain about its atomic programme, the United Nations nuclear watchdog has said.
In a case of sabotage, Atomic Energy Commission chief Anil Kakodkar on Sunday said somebody "deliberately" put radioactive tritium in a water cooler at the Kaiga Nuclear Power Plant that exposed about 50 workers to increased level of radiation.
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Two men entered the area around Bhaba Atomic Research Centre and fed inputs on road topography into their wireless communication service GPRS arousing suspicions of people against the backdrop of US terror suspect David Headley having reportedly conducted a recce there.
The culprits behind the 'criminal act' of mixing highly radioactive tritium heavy water in the water cooler at the Kaiga nuclear power plant in Karnataka are yet to be identified, a top Atomic Energy Commission official said on Monday.
Nuclear tests of 1998 have given us capability to build deterrence both in fission and fusion categories, Anil Kakodkar, Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission, said on Thursday.
The magnetic superatom -- a stable cluster of atoms that can mimic different elements of the periodic table -- may have potential biomedical applications such as sensing, imaging and drug delivery. The study, led by Shiv Khanna, physics professor, Virginia Commonwealth University along with collaborators at the Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad and Naval Research Laboratory in the US, was published in Nature.
United States President Donald Trump has warned Iran of "major retaliation" if Tehran carries out any attack against America to avenge the killing of top military commander Qasem Soleimani and hinted at striking its cultural sites. His statement came hours after Iran announced it will no longer abide by the limits contained in the 2015 landmark nuclear deal.
India on Friday joined the United States in voting against Iran in a resolution passed by United Nations atomic watchdog IAEA censuring the Islamic nation over its controversial nuclear programme and demanding that it stop uranium enrichment.
Pakistan's first satellite will be launched into space by April 2011, a top nuclear scientist of the country said on Tuesday. Leading nuclear scientist Samar Mobarakmand who is also a member of the Planning Commission, made the announcement.
The chairman of India's Atomic Energy Commission makes a case for nuclear energy saying all other forms of power gerenration will not be able to meet the country's staggering demand.
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International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohammad ElBaradei hailed India as a "leading advocate" for nuclear disarmament and asked the world to listen to its "voice" on elimination of all nuclear weapons. "India called for the elimination of all nuclear weapons as far back as 1948. It is important that India's voice should continue to be heard.
A jubilant Nair was addressing a press conference at the ISRO headquarters in Bangalore on Friday after a NASA payload aboard the Chandrayaan-1 found Hydroxyl, a molecule consisting one oxygen atom and one hydrogen atom, in the lunar soil.
The failure of India's sole H-bomb is the latest in the Department of Atomic Energy and Bhabha Atomic Research Centre's long history of being economical with the truth.
Overall, data and its analysis used in the reports prove that members of staff of DAE, like others, are prone to cancer and suicides! No more, no less! Sensational reports have the potential to do infinite damage to our nation's nuclear energy programe and create unwanted fear, says Dr K S Parthasarathy.
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Amid warning by the UN nuclear watchdog that Iran could be hiding multiple secret nuclear sites, the UN and Iranian officials have been secretly engaged in negotiating a deal to allow Tehran keep most of its nuclear programme and end sanctions in return for co-operation with International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors, a news report said on Tuesday.
