UK's Brexit election
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on 13 December 2019 won the historic UK General Election as his Conservative Party crossed the 326-mark required for a majority in Parliament, marking a victory for his "Get Brexit Done" message and setting the UK on course to leave the European Union (EU) in the New Year.
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#UK #Brexit #BorisJohnson #election #British
Antenna of RISAT-2BR1
Scientists at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on 12 December 2019 undertook an operation to unfurl the antenna that was inside the radar imaging earth observation satelliteRISAT-2BR1, a day after it was launched from Sriharikota.
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/study-material/news-for-aspirants/22332-antenna-of-risat-2br1.html
#Antenna #RISAT #2BR1 #ISRO #PSLV #MOM #satellites
Renewable energy generating state
Tamil Nadu has overtaken Karnataka to become India's top renewable power generating state in FY20 (till October). Of the total renewable power generation in the country, nearly 17.2 per cent was from Tamil Nadu.
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/study-material/news-for-aspirants/22331-renewable-energy-generating-state.html
#TamilNadu #FY20 #CEA #India #megawatt #SolarPolicy
E-Pharmacy rules
E-pharmacies, in recent years, have been able to fulfil unmet medical needs of the large Indian population by enabling access to affordable medicines to people in remote areas.
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/study-material/news-for-aspirants/22330-e-pharmacy-rules.html
#EPharmacy #DTAB #FDI #AIOCD #DISHA #PDPBill #DCC
FM in the world's most powerful women list
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, HCL Corporation CEO and Executive Director Roshni Nadar Malhotra and Biocon Founder Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw have been named among the world’s 100 most powerful women by Forbes.
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/study-material/news-for-aspirants/22329-fm-in-the-world-s-most-powerful-women-list.html
#FM #CEO #NirmalaSitharaman #HCL #PowerfulWomen #India
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on 13 December 2019 won the historic UK General Election as his Conservative Party crossed the 326-mark required for a majority in Parliament, marking a victory for his "Get Brexit Done" message and setting the UK on course to leave the European Union (EU) in the New Year.
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/study-material/news-for-aspirants/22333-uk-s-brexit-election.html
#UK #Brexit #BorisJohnson #election #British
Antenna of RISAT-2BR1
Scientists at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on 12 December 2019 undertook an operation to unfurl the antenna that was inside the radar imaging earth observation satelliteRISAT-2BR1, a day after it was launched from Sriharikota.
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/study-material/news-for-aspirants/22332-antenna-of-risat-2br1.html
#Antenna #RISAT #2BR1 #ISRO #PSLV #MOM #satellites
Renewable energy generating state
Tamil Nadu has overtaken Karnataka to become India's top renewable power generating state in FY20 (till October). Of the total renewable power generation in the country, nearly 17.2 per cent was from Tamil Nadu.
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/study-material/news-for-aspirants/22331-renewable-energy-generating-state.html
#TamilNadu #FY20 #CEA #India #megawatt #SolarPolicy
E-Pharmacy rules
E-pharmacies, in recent years, have been able to fulfil unmet medical needs of the large Indian population by enabling access to affordable medicines to people in remote areas.
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/study-material/news-for-aspirants/22330-e-pharmacy-rules.html
#EPharmacy #DTAB #FDI #AIOCD #DISHA #PDPBill #DCC
FM in the world's most powerful women list
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, HCL Corporation CEO and Executive Director Roshni Nadar Malhotra and Biocon Founder Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw have been named among the world’s 100 most powerful women by Forbes.
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/study-material/news-for-aspirants/22329-fm-in-the-world-s-most-powerful-women-list.html
#FM #CEO #NirmalaSitharaman #HCL #PowerfulWomen #India
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Today's Headlines - 03 September 2023
Largest indigenously developed N-plant starts ops
GS Paper - 3 (Energy)
The third unit of the indigenously developed 700-megawatt electric (MWe) nuclear power reactor at the Kakrapar Atomic Power Project (KAPP3) in Gujarat has commenced operations at full capacity. This comes a little over three years since the unit achieved its ‘first criticality’ – a technical term that signifies the initiation of a controlled, but sustained nuclear fission reaction – in July 2020. On 30 June this year, the unit had started commercial operations.
More about the News
In India’s civilian nuclear programme, this is seen as a landmark event, given that KAPP-3 is the country’s first 700 MWe unit and the biggest indigenously developed variant of the Pressurised Heavy Water Reactor (PHWR).
The PHWRs, which use natural uranium as fuel and heavy water as moderator, constitute the mainstay of India’s nuclear power fleet.
Till now, the biggest reactor of indigenous design was the 540 MWe PHWR, two of which have been deployed in Tarapur, Maharashtra.
For India, the operationalisation of its first 700MWe reactor is a significant scale up in technology, both in terms of the optimisation of its PHWR design — the new 700MWe unit addresses the excess thermal margins and also marks an improvement in the economies-of-scale, without significant design changes to the 540 MWe reactor.
Flashback
As India works to ramp up its existing nuclear power capacity of 7,480 MWe to 22,480 MWe by 2031, the 700MWe capacity would constitute the biggest component of this expansion plan. Currently, nuclear power capacity constitutes around 2 per cent of the total installed capacity of 4,17,668 MW (May 31).
Significantly, as India’s civilian nuclear sector gears up to its next frontier — building a 900 MWe Pressurised Water Reactors (PWRs) of indigenous design – the experience of executing the larger 700MWe reactor design would come in handy, especially with respect to the improved capability of making large-size pressure vessels, alongside India’s own isotope enrichment plants being developed to supply a part of the required enriched uranium fuel to power these new generation reactors over the next decade or so, according to DAE officials.
The first ‘pour of concrete’ for laying the foundation of KAPP-3 happened in November 2010 and this unit was originally expected to be commissioned in 2015.
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Largest indigenously developed N-plant starts ops
GS Paper - 3 (Energy)
The third unit of the indigenously developed 700-megawatt electric (MWe) nuclear power reactor at the Kakrapar Atomic Power Project (KAPP3) in Gujarat has commenced operations at full capacity. This comes a little over three years since the unit achieved its ‘first criticality’ – a technical term that signifies the initiation of a controlled, but sustained nuclear fission reaction – in July 2020. On 30 June this year, the unit had started commercial operations.
More about the News
In India’s civilian nuclear programme, this is seen as a landmark event, given that KAPP-3 is the country’s first 700 MWe unit and the biggest indigenously developed variant of the Pressurised Heavy Water Reactor (PHWR).
The PHWRs, which use natural uranium as fuel and heavy water as moderator, constitute the mainstay of India’s nuclear power fleet.
Till now, the biggest reactor of indigenous design was the 540 MWe PHWR, two of which have been deployed in Tarapur, Maharashtra.
For India, the operationalisation of its first 700MWe reactor is a significant scale up in technology, both in terms of the optimisation of its PHWR design — the new 700MWe unit addresses the excess thermal margins and also marks an improvement in the economies-of-scale, without significant design changes to the 540 MWe reactor.
Flashback
As India works to ramp up its existing nuclear power capacity of 7,480 MWe to 22,480 MWe by 2031, the 700MWe capacity would constitute the biggest component of this expansion plan. Currently, nuclear power capacity constitutes around 2 per cent of the total installed capacity of 4,17,668 MW (May 31).
Significantly, as India’s civilian nuclear sector gears up to its next frontier — building a 900 MWe Pressurised Water Reactors (PWRs) of indigenous design – the experience of executing the larger 700MWe reactor design would come in handy, especially with respect to the improved capability of making large-size pressure vessels, alongside India’s own isotope enrichment plants being developed to supply a part of the required enriched uranium fuel to power these new generation reactors over the next decade or so, according to DAE officials.
The first ‘pour of concrete’ for laying the foundation of KAPP-3 happened in November 2010 and this unit was originally expected to be commissioned in 2015.
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