Coinciding with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's current India visit, the government is likely to announce two sites for new US-built nuclear power plants that would be worth billions to American nuclear power generation equipment suppliers.

A study conducted by an online research portal reports that the Indian nuclear power market is estimated to touch $40 billion or Rs 20,000 crore by 2020. This mainly includes opportunities for power equipment manufacturers, uranium suppliers and forging companies in and outside India. Companies from Russia, France...

Sweden is offering India its considerable expertise in nuclear waste management and areas relating to nuclear security. The country, having world leadership in management of used fuel has its nuclear waste management well in hand. Earlier this year, Swedish companies operating in the nuclear sector came to India...

UBM India and the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), Government of India, jointly organized a Webinar on the theme - Nuclear Power for Energy Security of India, on 30 June 2009. The Webinar was one of the activities conducted as a prelude to India Nuclear Energy 2009 - International Exhibition and...

India's External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna and his Japanese counterpart Hirofumi Nakasone have announced the need for a "mutually beneficial" economic partnership. Nakasone and Krishna, who chaired the third round of the Japan-India strategic dialogue in Tokyo recently, discussed how to carry forward the...

Areva, the French nuclear reactor group, has said that it would sell its T&D India business with proposed sale of its power transmission and distribution division. However, its Indian arm - Areva T&D India, 72-percent owned by T&D, will continue with its planned market strategies. Areva Chief Executive Anne Lauvergeon said...

Veteran Japanese diplomat Yukiya Amano was elected new director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in a closely contested election recently. The world's top nuclear watchdog IAEA chose Japan's Yukiya Amano as its next head and he touched on the devastation the US atom bombs...

The last high-enriched uranium (HEU) has been removed from Romania under a US-led security initiative. The nuclear fuel has been used and stored at research reactors since its original delivery from the Soviet Union during the Cold War era. It has now been returned to Russia and was the first such transport to...

There are no generic problems that would affect the ability of France's 900 MWe reactors to enjoy a 40-year operating life, the country's nuclear regulator has told plant operator Electricité de France (EdF). In a formal letter to EdF, André-Claude Lacoste, president of France's Nuclear Safety Authority...