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India became an Associate member of CERN on January 16, 2017 with the Indian government completing its internal approval procedures in respect of the agreement it had signed with CERN on…
The shutdown of the 220 MW Unit-1 of the Kakrapar Atomic Power Station located in Gujarat’s Surat district following leakage of heavy water used to cool the nuclear reactor, on…
“Getting funding [for research] is easy in India,” said Dr. Mathai Joseph “because there is no competition here. Money is not scarce [though R&D spending is less than 1 per…
Published in The Hindu on November 29, 2012 The search for a possible final resting place or a deep geological repository for storing the high level radioactive waste generated during…
Published in The Hindu on October 28, 2012 ‘India is one of the countries doing a lot of work on a scientific solution to waste management,’ says Dr. Sekhar Basu,…
Published in The Hindu on August 30, 2012 The sceptics have been right, after all. By pulling away the shroud of secrecy and opaqueness that has been built into the…
Published in The Hindu on May 10, 2012 A paper published today (May 10) in Nature states that the process of converting plutonium to MOX (mixed oxide fuel containing uranium…
Published in The Hindu on May 10, 2012 There are 500 tonnes of separated plutonium (Pu) worldwide that can be used for making one lakh nuclear weapons, claim four scientists…
