India Nuclear Accident

India on Friday cautioned that any accident involving nuclear facilities may have severe consequences for public health and the environment.

Scientists at the Defence Research and Development Organisation's (DRDO) Jodhpur laboratory have developed a sensor that can detect radiation levels in case of any nuclear accident.

The US is concerned over Pakistan's fast-expanding stockpile of nuclear weapons which in combination with evolving doctrine increases the risk of an "accident", a top pentagon official has said.

India ratified an international convention on nuclear energy accident liability, the government said on Thursday, the final piece in its efforts to address the concerns of foreign nuclear suppliers and draw them into a market worth billions of dollars.

General Electric Co will not invest in atomic energy in India until accident liability laws are brought in line with global rules, chairman Jeff Immelt said on Monday, in a setback for top-level efforts to get US firms to build power stations.

The Indian government has released details of its nuclear agreement, which was sealed in meetings between India and the US, during US President Barack Obama's recent visit to India. The two countries have come to agreement on points ranging from liability in the event of mishaps to the tracking of supplied nuclear material.

India is offering to set up an insurance pool to indemnify global nuclear suppliers against liability in the case of a nuclear accident, in a bid to unblock billions of dollars in trade held up by concerns over exposure to risk.

One worker was killed and two others injured in an accident at a shipbuilding centre in Visakhapatnam where India is building its first class of three nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines. The incident took place when the pressure of the hydraulic tank of the Arihant class submarine was being tested and the tank's lid fell on the workers a...

One worker has been killed and two others have been injured in an accident at an under-construction nuclear submarine site in Visakhapatnam, according to reports.

The government has said that it will not violate or subvert a crucial law that makes foreign suppliers liable for an accident if the nuclear equipment they provided malfunctioned.The US has been pressuring India to grants its companies greater protection from liabilities. US President Barack Obama is expected to raise this at next week's meeting wi...

The government has said that it will not violate or subvert a crucial law that makes foreign suppliers liable for an accident if the nuclear equipment they provided malfunctioned. The US has been pressuring India to grants its companies greater protection from liabilities. US President Barack Obama is expected to raise this at next week's meeting ...

The government is reportedly planning to bypass a law that makes foreign suppliers liable for a nuclear accident, a controversial move that will favour an American company ahead of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's meeting with US president Barack Obama at the UN General Assembly next week.

America has the world's largest number of operating nuclear reactors and they are some of the most guarded industrial facilities in USA. In a first of its kind access, NDTV was permitted to visit the twin reactors at North Anna, some 140 kilometres south of Washington, DC. This plant was hit by a massive earthquake six months after the Fukushima ac...

Even as the threat of nuclear radiation exposure becomes more real in light of the meltdown in Japan's Fukushima Daiichi plant, MiD DAY has found that no insurance company in the country covers the specific outcomes of such an eventuality.'Nuclear radiation' is, in fact, a standard exclusion in the text of most policies.A spokesperson for Tata-AIG ...

The debate on whether the country needs a law limiting the damages due to a nuclear accident in on. But really how safe are our nuclear reactors?

India on Friday cautioned that any accident involving nuclear facilities may have severe consequences for public health and the environment.

Scientists at the Defence Research and Development Organisation's (DRDO) Jodhpur laboratory have developed a sensor that can detect radiation levels in case of any nuclear accident.

The US is concerned over Pakistan's fast-expanding stockpile of nuclear weapons which in combination with evolving doctrine increases the risk of an "accident", a top pentagon official has said.

India ratified an international convention on nuclear energy accident liability, the government said on Thursday, the final piece in its efforts to address the concerns of foreign nuclear suppliers and draw them into a market worth billions of dollars.

General Electric Co will not invest in atomic energy in India until accident liability laws are brought in line with global rules, chairman Jeff Immelt said on Monday, in a setback for top-level efforts to get US firms to build power stations.

The Indian government has released details of its nuclear agreement, which was sealed in meetings between India and the US, during US President Barack Obama's recent visit to India. The two countries have come to agreement on points ranging from liability in the event of mishaps to the tracking of supplied nuclear material.

India is offering to set up an insurance pool to indemnify global nuclear suppliers against liability in the case of a nuclear accident, in a bid to unblock billions of dollars in trade held up by concerns over exposure to risk.

One worker was killed and two others injured in an accident at a shipbuilding centre in Visakhapatnam where India is building its first class of three nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines. The incident took place when the pressure of the hydraulic tank of the Arihant class submarine was being tested and the tank's lid fell on the workers a...

One worker has been killed and two others have been injured in an accident at an under-construction nuclear submarine site in Visakhapatnam, according to reports.

The government has said that it will not violate or subvert a crucial law that makes foreign suppliers liable for an accident if the nuclear equipment they provided malfunctioned.The US has been pressuring India to grants its companies greater protection from liabilities. US President Barack Obama is expected to raise this at next week's meeting wi...

The government has said that it will not violate or subvert a crucial law that makes foreign suppliers liable for an accident if the nuclear equipment they provided malfunctioned. The US has been pressuring India to grants its companies greater protection from liabilities. US President Barack Obama is expected to raise this at next week's meeting ...

The government is reportedly planning to bypass a law that makes foreign suppliers liable for a nuclear accident, a controversial move that will favour an American company ahead of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's meeting with US president Barack Obama at the UN General Assembly next week.

America has the world's largest number of operating nuclear reactors and they are some of the most guarded industrial facilities in USA. In a first of its kind access, NDTV was permitted to visit the twin reactors at North Anna, some 140 kilometres south of Washington, DC. This plant was hit by a massive earthquake six months after the Fukushima ac...

Even as the threat of nuclear radiation exposure becomes more real in light of the meltdown in Japan's Fukushima Daiichi plant, MiD DAY has found that no insurance company in the country covers the specific outcomes of such an eventuality.'Nuclear radiation' is, in fact, a standard exclusion in the text of most policies.A spokesperson for Tata-AIG ...

The debate on whether the country needs a law limiting the damages due to a nuclear accident in on. But really how safe are our nuclear reactors?