Clean Core Thorium Energy was granted an export licence last week to commercialise the fuel based in thorium, of which India has vast reserves. Firm is now looking for regulatory approvals.
India's target is to generate 100 GW of nuclear energy capacity by 2047, and US-based Clean Core Thorium Energy seems to have found a way to reach the goal.
Former chairperson of Atomic Energy Commission, Srinivasan took ill in Ooty & passed away peacefully in a hospital at 4am, daughter S. Sharada writes on FB.
Besides engineering, there have been significant developments in the regulatory framework for nuclear energy, with countries building standards and safeguards to avert future disasters.
Through 'Bharat Small Reactor' policy announced in Union Budget, govt plans to partner with private firms for the first time to deploy small indigenous nuclear reactors.
This is the first step towards generation of power for commercial use. Nuclear energy is key to India's goal of generating 50% of its electricity from non-fossil fuel sources by 2030.
It is necessary to break the spell of socialist dogma on the imagination of those attracted by its Utopia as the only scientific way of progress, wrote MA Venkatarao in 1963.
While bond yields tend to fall amid low inflation & interest rate cuts, market experts say they’ve been rising due to concerns over tax collections, fiscal deficit & potential impact of US tariffs.
It is one of the most advanced long-range air defence and anti-missile radars. It has been acquired under an about USD 145-million deal signed in 2020.
To be truly functional and durable, even eternal, a state doesn’t just need a leader, a party or an ideology. It needs functional and robust institutions.
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