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As India deregulates the nuclear power sector, NPCIL CMD Bhuwan Chandra Pathak explains how the company will play a “motherly role" in fostering private participation through technology, project ...

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They dig a hole or have a bunker in place and they go underground,” Colorado School of Mines Professor Thomas Albrecht said ...

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) defines first nuclear fuel loading as the initial placement of fuel assemblies ...

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