Nuclear Power

NPCIL Recruitment 2019: 200 Executive Trainees' Application Through GATE Begins

Jobs | NDTV Education Team | Wednesday April 10, 2019

Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) has announced recruitment process for 200 Executive Trainees. According to the official notification, the recruitment is through Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) scores.

Radioactive Contaminants From Fukushima Found At Alaska's Bering Strait

World News | Reuters | Thursday March 28, 2019

Radioactive contamination from Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant hit by a tsunami in 2011 has drifted as far north as waters off a remote Alaska island in the Bering Strait, scientists said on Wednesday.

India, US Agree To Build 6 American Nuclear Power Plants In India

India News | Reuters | Thursday March 14, 2019

The United States and India on Wednesday agreed to strengthen security and civil nuclear cooperation, including the establishment of six U.S. nuclear power plants in India, the two countries said in a joint statement.

"Never Recognised India, Pakistan As Nuclear Countries," Says China

India News | Press Trust of India | Friday March 1, 2019

China Friday said it has never recognised India and Pakistan as nuclear powers and ruled out extending such a status to North Korea following the unsuccessful second summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Vietnam.

"India A Reluctant Nuclear Weapon State": Former PM Manmohan Singh

India News | Press Trust of India | Monday February 25, 2019

Former Prime minister Manmohan Singh said today that India is a "reluctant" nuclear weapon state and that new proliferation risks can lead to "unintended escalations", increasing the likelihood of a nuclear

Karnataka Nuclear Reactor Sets Global Record, "Major Feat," Says PM Modi

India News | Written by Pallava Bagla | Monday December 10, 2018

In a major accomplishment for India's Department of Atomic Energy, the 220 MW nuclear reactor at Kaiga in Karnataka has completed a continuous run of 941 days to become the world's longest running reactor without a shutdown in this marathon run. The earlier record of 940 days of continuous operation was held by a British reactor called Heysham-2, ...

At UN, India Makes Climate Change Case For Nuclear Power

India News | Reuters | Saturday November 10, 2018

India has declared that nuclear energy is vital for meeting the challenge of climate change and suggested supporting efforts to promote its public acceptance amid growing opposition to nuclear power and plans by some countries to phase out their atomic generation plants.

Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower Calls for Online Regulation

Agence France-Presse | Thursday November 8, 2018

In his address at the Web Summit, Wylie also called on data scientists to be subject to an ethical code just as doctors, nurses and teachers are.

Saudi Crown Prince Launches Kingdom's First Nuclear Plant Project

World News | Agence France-Presse | Tuesday November 6, 2018

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Monday laid the foundation stone for the kingdom's first nuclear research reactor, state media said, as the kingdom seeks to diversify its energy mix.

Will "Seriously" Think Returning To Nuclear Policy: North Korea Warns US

World News | Agence France-Presse | Sunday November 4, 2018

North Korea has warned the United States it will "seriously" consider returning to a state policy aimed at building nuclear weapons if Washington does not end tough economic sanctions against the impoverished regime.

Nuclear-Powered US Carrier Leads Biggest Combat Exercise In Japan

World News | Reuters | Saturday November 3, 2018

U.S. fighter jets darted over the Western Pacific on Saturday as the nuclear powered USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier joined Japanese destroyers and a Canadian warship for the biggest combat readiness war game ever staged in and around Japan.

Trump Picks Indian-American Who Backs Coal Subsidy To Head Energy Panel

Indians Abroad | Reuters | Thursday October 25, 2018

The White House said on Wednesday President Donald Trump has appointed Neil Chatterjee, an avid supporter of subsidizing ageing coal and nuclear power plants, as chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

US Limits Nuclear Tech To China Citing Proliferation, Military Diversion

World News | Press Trust of India | Saturday October 13, 2018

The Trump administration has said that it will "sharply restrict" exports of civilian nuclear technology to China. The statement comes at a time when officials in Washington believe Beijing has been "diverting civilian nuclear technology to power the new generations of Chinese submarines, aircraft carriers and floating nuclear power plants."

Won't Hurt Allies, Says US After India-Russia Sign Missile Deal: 10 Facts

India News | Edited by Divyanshu Dutta Roy | Saturday October 6, 2018

India will finally acquire the S-400 Triumf, arguably the world's most lethal surface-to-air missile system, from Russia, brushing off a threat of sanctions from the US. The $5-billion pact was signed between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday afternoon along with a raft of other agreements ranging from nucl...

Google Faces Belgium Lawsuit for Not Blurring Defence Site Images

Reuters | Friday September 28, 2018

Citing national security, the Belgium defence ministry said it had requested that sites such as air bases and nuclear power stations be obscured on Google's satellite mapping services.