Indian government alert on scams involving products making false claims of radioactive properties
The Indian government has been periodically cautioning against scamsters in the country selling fake equipment that they claim contains radioactive material with the aim of cheating gullible people out of large sums of money, the Minister for Atomic Energy Jitendra Singh said earlier this month.
Plant launched in Russia to produce fuel for China’s CFR-600 fast neutron reactor
Russian state atomic energy corporation Rosatom’s fuel arm TVEL has launched a production site for fabricating fuel for China’s flagship fast neutron reactor project, the CFR-600.
Unit 3 construction begins of Turkey’s first nuclear power plant
Russian state atomic energy corporation Rosatom has announced the start of construction earlier this month on the third unit of Turkey’s first nuclear power plant (NPP) at Akkuyu.
Nitride fuel developed for Russia’s BREST-OD-300 fast neutron reactor
Russian state atomic energy corporation Rosatom’s fuel arm TVEL has developed a fuel rod design based on nitride uranium-plutonium (MNUP) fuel for the BREST-OD-300 fast neutron reactor, Rosatom announced last week.
Indian Parliament takes stock of country’s civilian nuclear power capacity
As the Indian Parliament began its first session in 2021, it was time for stock taking, including of the nuclear sector.
India’s much delayed fast breeder reactor costs exceed budget, likely completion in October 2022
The expenditure till date on India’s much delayed first pressurised fast breeder reactor (PFBR), being set up at the Madras Atomic Power Station at Kalpakkam in Tamil Nadu state, has already exceeded the budgeted estimate by over Rs 500 crore (around $69 million), according to the country’s Atomic Energy Minister Jitendra Singh.
Westinghouse Electric in talks to build 6 nuclear reactors in India
The Indian government is currently engaged in techno-commercial discussions with the US-based Westinghouse Electric Company to finalise a project proposal for setting up six nuclear power reactors with a capacity of 1208 MW each at Kovvada in the state of Andhra Pradesh.
Equipment supply contract signed for Russia’s BREST-OD-300 fast neutron reactor
Russian state atomic energy corporation Rosatom subsidiary, the TVEL Fuel Company, has signed the contracts for the manufacture and supply of the main equipment of the power unit with the BREST-OD-300 fast neutron reactor being constructed at the Siberian Chemical Combine (SCC) in Seversk, Russia, TVEL announced earlier this week.
Unit 1 of first nuclear plant in Belarus starts operating at 100% capacity
Unit 1 of Belarus’ first nuclear power plant, being built with the assistance of the Russian state atomic energy corporation Rosatom, reached nominal capacity for the first time earlier this month, that is, started operating at 100 percent capacity during the pilot operation, according to an official statement.
