India’s first indigenously-built 700 MWe Unit, KAPP-3, in Kakrapar, Gujarat, became commercial on 30th June, 2023. The unit is operating at 90% capacity and was connected to the grid on January 10, 2022 before it started commercial operations. It is Read More …
The Oxford Handbook of Nuclear Security, widely considered as a first global compendium on the subject, was published on 20 June, 2023. It has 41 chapters, written by 63 experts from six continents on their perspectives in various aspects of Read More …
Studying and Preserving Cultural Heritage Using Nuclear Science and Technology by Artem Vlasov Nuclear science and technology are often used in the study and preservation of valuable cultural objects. These objects include everything from paintings, clothing and musical instruments, to Read More …
The United States says it has 1,419 nuclear warheads. Out of this, 662 are deployed intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarine-launched ballistic missiles and those that can be launched by heavy bombers. The US Department of State gave the figures on 16 Read More …
Nigeria’s 31 kw nuclear research reactor, NIRR-1, celebrates 20 years anniversary in 2024. Activities lined-up for the event include a symposium in the Conference Hall on 2 May, 2024, on the achievements, challenges and prospects since it started operation.The reactor, Read More …
Two nuclear centres under the Nigeria Atomic Energy Commission, NAEC, have taken their protest over non-payment of hazard and high-risk allowances to the House of Representatives. In a letter to the Speaker, Abass Tajudeen, in January, 2024, they claimed that Read More …
Two female Research Fellows in the Centre for Energy Research and Training, CERT, Zaria, have been granted Reactor Operator Licences as Operator Class ‘C’. They are the first women qualified to be so licensed for the tank – in – Read More …
Russia’s state-owned corporation, Rosatom, is building Egypt’s first nuclear power plant of 4,800 MW for electricity generation. The nuclear power plant, which will have four reactors of 1,200 MW each, is in El Dabaa, by the Mediterranean, 300 kilometres northwest Read More …
A Tokyo district court has found four former executives of Tokyo Electric Power Company guilty of not exercising due care and failing to prevent the nuclear accident in their Fukushima Dai-ichi plant on March 11, 2011. They are to pay $95 Read More …
The Higgs boson was discovered on 4 July, 2012 in the European Council for Nuclear Research, CERN, in Switzerland. Peter Higgs shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2013 with François Englert for their work in the discovery. The name Read More …
