Nuclear waste management: Is Finland’s Onkalo facility safe?

The facility, set to begin operation in 2024, isn't based on a foolproof concept

Nuclear energy helped prevent 72 billion tonnes CO2 emissions since 1970

At the end of 2020, there were 441 operable reactors

These countries plan to throw a spanner in CoP26 works, warn BBC

A comment from India cited “tremendous challenges” to say that coal will remain the main source of energy in the coming decades

Nuclear power or coal plants? Study weighs in on costs and benefits

Environmental costs from both power sources were also examined by the study

Scientists meeting in France seek more funds for nuclear energy

They claim nuclear energy, being clean, would help mitigate climate change

IEA pitches for favourable policy interventions to push lagging nuclear sector

Report, released at the 10th Clean Energy Ministerial conference, backs investments in nuclear power 

Climate caveats

Without the switch to renewable energy, CO2 emissions would have been 50 per cent higher in the world; that's great, but not enough

Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal may have plateaued due to uranium shortage: study

Pakistan does not have high grade uranium ore in the country, and its potential uranium reserves are also not very large

Vietnam’s decision to scrap nuclear energy plans has some lessons for India

The decision dealt a blow to global nuclear energy trade and watered down Japan’s efforts at exporting reactors

Nuclear waste can be used to generate electricity

The development could solve some of the problems of nuclear waste, clean electricity generation and battery life

India ratifies nuclear liability convention

The ratification may attract international nuclear suppliers to invest in the country

Supreme Court gives go ahead to Kudankulam nuclear power plant

Rules in favour of larger public interest; says plant is safe

Life post Fukushima

It is one year since the great eastern Japan earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear disaster ravaged Japan. How is the country coping?  …

Nuclear energy set to grow at 45 per cent in next 20 years

Demand for nuclear energy has, however, declined after the Fukushima disaster of 2011

Nuclear shield for MNCs

The new Indo-US agreement protects American companies from being held liable for nuclear accidents

World waking up to wind, solar energy: study

Countries prefer wind and solar over nuclear energy for producing electricity

Village protesting Kundankulam bans poll campaigning by any party

S P Udayakumar, coordinator of Peoples’ Movement Against Nuclear Energy, has been spearheading protests against the Kudankulam Nuclear …

Nuked editorials

Power-crazy

Clean and unlimited power from just a handful of hydrogen atoms. Physicists are busy working to make this dream real

'Drop the weapon talk'

Power problems

Monju goes on line

Turning on the heat

The Green Party in France threatens to pull out of the government over the nuclear energy issue

Nuclear conspiracy

UK officials stole bodies of children to conduct nuclear experiments in the US

No bullying

Scientists slam new US conditions on nuclear deal