No plans to advance refuelling activity at Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant’s Unit-1: Union Minister

No plans to advance refuelling activity at Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant’s Unit-1: Union Minister

Reactor buildings of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project. File The Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) has no plans to advance the refuelling activity of the 1,000 MW Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KKNPP) Unit-1. This information was provided by Jitendra Singh, Union Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions and Prime Minister’s Office, … Read more

India tried to defuse Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant situation: EAM Jaishankar 

India tried to defuse Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant situation: EAM Jaishankar 

India tried to defuse the situation around Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and quietly helped in the grain deal between Moscow and Kyiv, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar has said even as he vehemently rejected charges of New Delhi being a war profiteer over its procurement of discounted Russian oil. The External Affairs Minister also … Read more

Pakistan parliament to convene this week for no-confidence move against PM Khan

Pakistan parliament to convene this week for no-confidence move against PM Khan

Pakistan’s parliament will convene on Friday to take up a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Imran Khan, the lower house speaker’s office said on Sunday, in what shapes up as his toughest test since coming to power in 2018. An alliance of opposition parties filed the motion against Khan this month, saying he had lost … Read more

UN nuclear watchdog sees indications of plutonium work in North Korea

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The UN atomic watchdog has seen indications in North Korea of possible reprocessing work to separate plutonium from spent reactor fuel that could be used in nuclear weapons, the head of the agency said on Monday. The International Atomic Energy Agency has not had access to the secretive state since Pyongyang expelled its inspectors in … Read more