Transformer fire tied to tripping of MAPS Unit-II

In the second accident in as many days, two of a family, including a seven-month-old baby, and the driver of a taxi were killed and a scientist was severely injured when their vehicle collided with an SUV on East Coast Road on Monday. According to ...

As many as 458 persons were arrested by Kancheepuram police for attempting to stage an one-day token stir for which police had denied permission, here on Thursday. Villagers living in the 16-km radius of Kalpakkam Power Plant had recently launched a ...

An 18-month-old girl, who crawled under a school van her brother was getting on, was run over by it near Kalpakkam on Wednesday morning. Police said while the girl's mother was handing over the boy's school bag, the baby went under the van.

Chennai: The first 500 MWe fast breeder reactor in India's nuclear programme, being constructed at Kalpakkam nuclear complex near here, would attain criticality before September 2014, a top official said Thursday. "Over 95 per cent of physical ...

Three people, including the wife and child of a scientist of the Kalpakkam Atomic Power Station

Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) is an Indian nuclear power company. It is a public sector enterprise under the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE). It principally engages in developing nuclear power technology and implementing new ...

Dianuke.org The Supreme Courts verdict on Koodankulam rests on three hugely contested premises: the judges belief in the necessity of the nuclear energy for Indias progress, their faith in the countrys nuclear establishment to perform its role, and ...

India's atomic power plant operator Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd. (NPCIL) is likely to install a new transformer for its second unit at Madras Atomic Power Station (MAPS) that was shut down last month, an official said. The second unit of ...

The Supreme Court on Monday said there is no basis to the fear that the radioactive effects of the Kudankulam nuclear power plant, when commissioned, will be far reaching. A Bench of Justices K.S. Radhakrishnan and Dipak Misra said: "We are ...