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Maharashtra will purchase power generated at the proposed Jaitapur nuclear power plant in the state only if it is affordable, a highly-placed source in the Devendra Fadnavis government said today.

The Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant’s generation units in Bangladesh will be based on VVER-1200 Russia reactors of the 3+ generation technology.

While the global nuclear industry seems entering an era of nuclear decommissioning, India is gearing for a mini-renaissance.

Climate change is certainly a matter already covered in the environmental impact assessment, the NGT said on Wednesday as it disposed of a 9-year-old girl’s petition alleging inaction by the Centre to mitigate the adverse impact of climate change.

Dr. Sekhar Basu is an Indian nuclear scientist, who has handled the Nuclear Submarine Programme for the country; and presently, he is at the helm of India’s atomic affairs as the Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and Secretary to the Government of India, Department of Atomic Energy (DAE).

Amidst rising uncertainty over six India’s nuclear reactors after the US-based Westinghouse filed for insolvency in March, a school of thought has emerged advocating takeover of the subsidiary of Japan’s Toshiba by New Delhi to gain entrance to the club of countries with nuclear reactor manufacturing technology.

As Bangladesh readies for it first nuclear power plant at Rooppur, the field of nuclear education have been found to be wanting.

Scientists today are in the vanguard of progress, playing a determinant role in the future of humanity.

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Riding on the important success achieved by Bangladesh economy as it walked into the ‘Developing Country’ category, the country is now outlining the course of its new development stage by focusing on power generation through nuclear energy.