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Swedish N-Mission in India
to Explore JVs in Safety
A Swedish Business Delegation on Nuclear Technology and Safety Management arrived in India on April 14, 2009 headed by Ambassador of Sweden to India Lars-Olof Lindgren. The delegation, which comprises of Swedish companies, technology providers, government agencies and research institutes within the area of nuclear energy, will...
     
     
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Russia Delivers First Batch of
Nuclear Fuel Pellets to India
Russia's TVEL, a subsidiary of state-controlled nuclear power company Atomenergoprom, has delivered its first shipment of uranium fuel pellets to India for Indian heavy-water reactors on 10 April, 2009, under a new contract. This followed the arrival of 60 tonnes of uranium ore at the Nuclear Fuel Complex on March 31st, 2009 from France marked...
     
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India Working on Ratification Norms
of Safeguards Pact
India is working on the ratification procedures of the India-Specific Safeguards Agreement (ISSA) signed with IAEA to place its civilian nuclear power plants for international inspection. "We are working on the ratification procedures of the ISSA. Ratification is a legal step and is expected to be completed soon," Anil Kakodkar, Chairman Atomic...
     
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Canada's Contributes to N-Security
Fund against Terrorism
Canada's Minister for Foreign Affairs Lawrence Cannon has recently announced that his country will contribute $4 million to strengthen nuclear security in countries of the former Soviet Union (now known as the CIS region) through the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Nuclear Security Fund (NSF). This contribution is Canada's third to the...
     
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Japan & Jordan Ink Pact on
N-Energy Cooperation
The Jordan Atomic Energy Commission and Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry have signed a memorandum of cooperation in nuclear energy. Under the agreement, Japan will assist the Middle Eastern country with its introduction of nuclear energy. Director General of the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy Toru...
     
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'India will be Major N-Equipment
Supplier in a Decade'
Fears of both the Right wing Bharatiya Janata Party and the Leftist Communist Party (Marxist) that India has bartered away its national security under the nuclear deal with the US are baseless, argues noted journalist Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar in his recent weekly Sunday column in Times of India. We reproduce the article here. The...
     
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NTPC to Go Solo on Building Future
N-Energy Plants
India's largest power producer, the state-owned National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) will go solo on future nuclear energy plants after completing work on a project that's being set up in collaboration with the Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL). "Our MoU with NPCIL does not prohibit us from pursuing nuclear ambitions on our...
     
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Hitachi Probes N-Equipment
Testing Data Falsification
Hitachi is carrying out an investigation after discovering that testing data on power equipment it had supplied to two Japanese nuclear power plants had been falsified. The doubts centre on inspection records for heat-welded pipes in moisture separator heaters supplied for unit 5 at Chubu's Hamaoka plant and for Chugoku's Shimane-3, still under...
     
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World's largest Quake-Hit N-Power Plant in Japan to Reopen Shortly
Japan's Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power station, the world's largest in terms of production, damaged in the 2007 quake, may resume operations shortly on a trial basis. The governor of Niigata prefecture, where the plant is located, had given "de facto approval" for the plant to reopen, and was scheduled to hold talks with the mayors of two local...
     
 
   
 
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