Nuclear

General Atomics Awarded DARPA Contract to Design Nuclear Thermal Propulsion System for DRACO Mission

  SAN DIEGO. General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) announced on April 16 that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded GA-EMS a contract to support the Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO)...

India Enters a Select League of Nations, Commissions Secretive Nuclear Missile Tracking Vessel

  New Delhi: India has commissioned its secretive nuclear missile tracking vessel that had been under construction since 2014, entering a select league of nations with the capability to monitor missile launches at long distances,...

Rolls-Royce Signs MoU with Fermi Energia for Compact Nuclear Power Stations

  Rolls-Royce and Fermi Energia have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to study the potential for the deployment of affordable, compact nuclear power stations, known as small modular reactors (SMR), in Estonia. The study will cover...

Private Sector Major L&T Construction Gets Contract Worth Rs 2500 Cr to Build 2 Units of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project

  New Delhi: Leading Indian company Larsen & Toubro (L&T) on February 18 said its construction arm has bagged a contract worth up to Rs 2,500 crore for building two units of Kudankulam Nuclear Power...

Israel on Alert to Block Iranian Nuclear Programme

  In spite of heavy damage caused to some Iranians nuclear facilities, Iran soon have enough enriched uranium to build a nuclear bomb. According to Israeli experts, the main attack on the Parchin secret facility...

Rolls-Royce Wins Contract to Provide Monitoring Systems for New Nuclear Reactors in China

New Delhi. Rolls-Royce was awarded a multi-million euros contract by China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) to provide the Neutron Flux Monitoring System for two nuclear reactors currently under construction in China. As part of the...

New START Demise could Cost $439 billion to US Department of Defense, says CBO

Washington: The demise of the New START treaty that limits US and Russian nuclear forces could wind up costing the United States as much as $439 billion in modernization costs, plus another $28 billion...

India’s Nuclear Strategy Shifting towards China: Report

  New Delhi: The focus of Indian nuclear strategy is shifting to China from Pakistan says a report adding that this was likely reinforced by the 2017 Doklam standoff. An analysis of India’s nuclear forces published...

US Democrats Vote to Block Funding for Nuclear Weapons Tests

Washington: In a rebuke to the Trump Administration, US House of Representatives has adopted an amendment to its version of the annual defense policy by which no funding would be available for live nuclear...

Pentagon to Increase Control over Nuclear Weapons Funding under Senate Proposal

  Washington: In a moved aimed at giving the Department of Defense a far stronger hand in crafting the funding for nuclear issues, the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) has proposed a radical change to...

US Charges North Koreans in US$2.5 Billion Scheme to Advance Nuclear Weapons Technology

Washington: In what is reported to be the biggest criminal enforcement action ever brought against North Korea, the US Justice Department has accused a network of North Korean and Chinese citizens of secretly advancing...

Countdown Begins on Expiration of US-Russia Treaty on Nuclear Weapons

Washington: For the first time in almost half a century time is running out on a US-Russian Treaty which on expiration would leave the world with no legal restrictions on US and Russian nuclear...

Year End Review: Department of Atomic Energy

The major policies and programmes by the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) during the year 2019 are given below: Nuclear Power Programme: Kaiga Atomic Power Station (KGS-1) has set the world record of 962 days of...
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