EU, India to collaborate in atomic energy research

October 4th, 2009 TEHRAN - Mohamed ElBaradei, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said Sunday in Tehran that the IAEA will inspect the newly revealed Iranian nuclear site Oct 25. The date was also confirmed by Iran's atomic chief Ali-Akbar Salehi.

September 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India Wednesday lauded UN nuclear watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei for his role in the success of India's global civil nuclear deal as President Pratibha Patil presented the Indira Gandhi Prize to him. Patil presented the 2008 Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development to ElBaradei, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), at a function at Rashtrapati Bhavan in the presence of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

September 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - UN nuclear watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei Wednesday warned against the "biggest threat" of nuclear weapons falling into the hands of extremist groups and asked India to lead global efforts towards nuclear disarmament. "The biggest threat to the world remains ...

September 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will inaugurate a three-day international conference on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy here Tuesday that will discuss options to contribute in developing a roadmap for the growth of nuclear energy and its peaceful applications. The conference is being organised as part of the year-long programme to mark the birth centenary year of Homi Jehangir Bhabha, who founded the Indian atomic energy programme and also had the distinction of being the president of the first international conference on this subject in Geneva in 1955.

August 18th, 2009 CHENNAI - A state-of-the-art simulator is being commissioned at Kalpakkam, 80 km from here, to train personnel who will man the upcoming nuclear power plant. The state-run Bharatiya Nabhikiya Vidyut Nigam (Bhavini) of the Department of Atomic Energy is setting up the simulator to train operators of the 500 MW Kalpakkam fast breeder reactor, scheduled to go critical in 2011.

July 25th, 2009 VIENNA - The first round of talks between India and the United States regarding re-processing of used US atomic fuel on Indian soil has begin here.op diplomats from both sides met to discuss and chart out rules for reprocessing the nuclear fuels for electricity at designated civilian reactors according to UN guidelines. The meeting is being seen as a significant step towards operationalisation of the civil Indo-US nuclear deal inked last year.

July 19th, 2009 GURGAON - India Sunday said it wants to engage the world community pro-actively to combat climate change and will have "concrete partnerships" with the US in the energy sector. "I want to say that both sides have agreed on the need of partnerships, concrete partnerships, on projects in various fields like energy efficiency, solar energy, biomass, energy-efficient buildings of the type that you are seeing here today," Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh said here.

July 17th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The US has again assured India that it does not have any real concerns about going forward with the India-US civil nuclear deal as it has proper IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) safeguards built into it. "I think that whenever there's one of these agreements, the so-called 123 agreements, there's quite a bit of transparency measures built into it, IAEA safeguards," State Department Spokesman Ian Kelly told reporters Thursday.

July 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Sweden, a member of the 45-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group, is offering New Delhi its niche expertise in nuclear waste management and security as it eyes India's $40 billion civilian nuclear energy market. "Sweden has considerable expertise in nuclear waste management and areas relating to nuclear security.

June 16th, 2009 KOLKATA - Work on the India-US civil nuclear energy deal is well on track and talks are on with fuel vendors, Atomic Energy Commission chief Anil Kakodkar said here Tuesday. "It (the deal) is moving and we are talking to the (fuel) vendors," Kakodkar told reporters at the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics at Kolkata's satellite township of Salt Lake.

June 7th, 2009 TORONTO - India and Canada are close to inking a civil nuclear deal, India's High Commissioner to Canada Shashishekhar M Gavai, said Gavai said officials of both sides had already exchanged the draft agreement regarding the deal, which would pave the way for Canada to sell its nuclear technology and uranium for civilian use for the first time in more than 30 years. He said the deal would be signed soon.

May 28th, 2009 OTTAWA - Canada is poised to sign a nuclear technology deal with India, the country's International Trade Minister Stockwell Day said Wednesday. The pact will open up the lucrative Indian market to Canadian nuclear exports for the first time in more than three decades.

May 28th, 2009 TORONTO - Canada Wednesday said that the on-going talks with India on resumption of nuclear ties may soon end in a nucelar deal with New Delhi. The two countries have reportedly already exchanged a draft agreement on the proposed deal.

March 5th, 2009 DHAKA - Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wednesday told parliament that her government would set up a nuclear power plant to meet the country's growing energy demand. 'We are taking initiatives to set up a nuclear power plant at Rooppur site,' she said in response to a question from a parliament member.

February 25th, 2009 BANGALORE - Did Homi Bhabha, father of Indian atomic energy programme, make a mistake by showing off India's nuclear achievements to Chinese prime minister Zhou Enlai during his visit to Trombay in 1960? Homi Sethna, a former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) thinks so, suggesting Bhabha's act might have unwittingly provoked China to accelerate its nuclear weapons programme. 'When Zhou Enlai visited us, Dr.