Nuclear Power

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Climate Crisis: Nuclear Power Is Not the Way Out

That nuclear power is a good solution to combating climate change is a claim that is being increasingly sold across the world. This does not bear scrutiny. The expansion of nuclear power is neither…
▶27-Sep-2024
Nagraj Adve

Problems with the Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor

The story of India’s Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor for close to two decades is one of rising costs, delays and the Department of Atomic Energy making never-ending promises of commissioning. Shouldn’…
▶24-Feb-2021
M V Ramana, Nidhi Sharma

Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the 75th Anniversary of ‘Nuclear Peace’

'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds’. Physicist Robert Oppenheimer recalled these lines from the Gita after watching the first nuclear test in July 1945. With the world now sitting…
▶20-Aug-2020
K. Vela Velupillai

A Decade After the Nuclear Deal

An increase in nuclear power was promised as an outcome of the Indo-US nuclear deal. That promise has not materialised, but citizens have paid a high price not just in economic terms but also through…
▶03-Apr-2019
Prerna Gupta, M V Ramana