Fast breeder reactor to attain criticality before Sep 2014

Dounreay is one of the strangest places in Britain. It's literally on the edge of things, isolated in bleakly beautiful landscape on the Caithness cliffs at the extreme north of Scotland, where the mainland starts to fray into the islands of the ...

New Delhi (ABC Live) Thorium plays a pivotal role in Indian Nuclear power programme. In fact, right at the beginning, a 3-stage Indian nuclear power programme has been chalked out and use of Thorium as an energy source has been contemplated during the third ...

Institution says the UK should build a reactor to burn excess plutonium Tags Issue Topic Share Related Articles Topics More from News Britain should consider stopping producing plutonium and urgently consider ways of dealing with its existing ...

Science and Technology play a crucial role in the progress and development of any nation. Our country has built a vast science and technology infrastructure that has helped the country to achieve remarkable success in food production, health care, ...

Chennai: Member of Parliament Hansraj Gangaram Ahir on Thursday demanded an immediate ban on export of beach sand minerals (BSM) like monazite that contain thorium. "Allowing the export of beach sand minerals under the OGL (open general licence) is ...

The Srinagar-born expert was consulted by the Bush administration when the US and India began negotiating the civil nuclear deal. Aziz Haniffa reportsSrinagar-born Dr Vijay Sazawal, 67, one of the foremost Indian-American nuclear experts in the country, has been re-appointed by United States Acting Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank to serve on the Civil Nuclear Trade Advisory Committee for a further period of two years through September 16, 2014 when its current charter expires.Sazawal was first ...

The Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) has been pursuing R&D in nuclear science, engineering and advanced mathematics. The R&D activities are carried out through Research Centres, Aided Institutions under the ...