Nuclear Power And The Challenge Of Climate Change
The challenge is that we need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants – and yet provide affordable power to allow for improved standards of living to the global population... - Shah Nawaz Ahmad
Glimpse of Nuclear Power Sector in India
This article discusses the various economic aspects and status of nuclear power generation and transmission in context with Indian Power Sector. Details of various nuclear power plants along with Nuclear Research centers are included. Data from various sources has been collected and compiled in order to provide readers with correct information regarding the status of nuclear power generation in India... - Dr Anuradha Tomar, Shikhar Agrawal, Ayush Mittal
BECHTEL ADVANCES IN ITS MISSION TO TREAT RADIOACTIVE WASTES
Way back since 1898, US-based Bechtel Corporation has been helping its customers complete projects in 160 countries on all seven continents. So far, the...
Rosatom’s first of a kind floating nuclear power unit arrives in Russia
The floating power unit Akademik Lomonosov has arrived at the port of its permanent location in Pevek, Chukotka, in Russia’s Far East, where it is being docked to start operations by the end of this year.
India’s first 700 MWe PHW reactor attains criticality
PM, Narendra Modi: “This indigenously designed 700 MWe KAPP-3 reactor is a shining example of Make in India.”
“India will chart its own course of energy transition…”
Recently, in a free-wheeling interaction with Electrical India (EI) team, Dr Vivek Soni, Faculty of Management, PhD & MTech (IIT Delhi), and a Certified Independent Director -MoCA, Govt of India, revealed his observations and expectations from the ongoing developments in the Indian Power Sector. Here is the Part 2 of the interaction; remaining parts will appear in the next issues of EI…
Unit of Novovoronezh Nuclear Power Plant-2 generates power in Russia
Russia’s Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation, the technical consultants and main equipment suppliers for Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in Tamil Nadu, announced that ‘innovative unit-2 of the Novovoronezh Nuclear Power Plant-2’ for the first-time supplied electricity to the national grid.
Nuclear Energy In India
India aims to supply 9% of its electricity needs with nuclear power by 2032 and 25% by 2050. This article highlights the status quo and the needs to achieve the target…
Small Modular Reactors to Make a Big Deal
Planet earth is reeling under an unprecedented threat of our time, the climate crisis. Change in weather pattern – that affects farm produce and...
L&T SUPPLIES 700 MWe STEAM GENERATOR TO GHAVP AHEAD OF SCHEDULE
The Heavy Engineering arm of Larsen & Toubro (L&T), flagged-off the fourth Steam Generator (SG) for NPCIL’s indigenously designed 700 MWe Pressurized Heavy Water...
Towards Zero Emission of Greenhouse Gases
For decades climate scientists have warned to limit the human influence on ecosystem and climate that led to global warming and climate change. Now they say we have very little time to act. The Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC), a global institution that studies climate change, has recently released another alarming report that bespeaks the increasing harm we humans are doing to the environment in the form of greenhouse gases emissions. This disrupts the climate more and raises global warming. There should be zero emission of greenhouse gases by 2100, the report suggests, if there has to be no further rise in the temperature. That means, all nations have to phase out the usage of fossil fuel by end of this century. - J Devaprakash
IAEA RELEASES ANNUAL REPORT ON COUNTRY NUCLEAR POWER PROFILES
The IAEA has released the 2022 edition of Country Nuclear Power Profiles (CNPP), marking more than two decades since the launch of the Agency’s...
Improving Energy Efficiency
Motorized fluid handling machinery such as air compressors and pumps consume nearly 40 to 60% electric power used by the industry. A large number of such systems installed in our process and power plants, either operate under degraded efficiency conditions due to service induced deterioration of the equipment – or operate far from the optimal operating point on the characteristic curve due to over design or mismatch with the demand or process requirements… - Dr G S Grewal, Bhavesh Vasiyani
The Energy Source Of Tomorrow – Part 2
Solid targets are generally made in the form of rods, spheres, or plates. Spallation is a violent reaction in which the target is bombarded...
THE ENERGY SOURCE OF TOMORROW – PART 1
For many years, there has been interest in utilising thorium-232 as a nuclear fuel since it is three to five times as abundant in...
Tata Projects secure NPCIL order
Tata Projects has received a prestigious order from Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL).
STUK APPROVES CONTINUED OPERATION OF FORTUM’S LOVIISA NUCLEAR POWER PLANT
The Finnish Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK) has given the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment a positive statement regarding the safety review...
NORNICKEL, ROSATOM TO LOOK INTO NUCLEAR POWER POTENTIAL IN NORILSK
Nornickel and the State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom (Russia) will consider the possibility of setting up low-capacity Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs) to supply energy...
GLIMPSES OF GLOBAL NUCLEAR POWER INDUSTRY
Although for the first time, on last November in COP – 26, the matter of proliferating nuclear energy was tabled, it received good support,...
KUDANKULAM IS SAFEST NUCLEAR PLANT IN THE WORLD
The main feature of the Indian project (Kudankulam) is a unique combination of active and passive safety systems that provide maximum resilience against external and internal impacts, including tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes and even an aircraft crash. - Andrey Shevlyakov, CEO, Rosatom South Asia