Kahuta nuclear plant

• Opinion • Leaders • Letters to the editor • By Invitation • Current topics • War in Ukraine • Climate change • Coronavirus • The Biden presidency • Recession watch • The Economist explains • Current topics • War in Ukraine • Climate change • Coronavirus • The Biden presidency • Recession watch • The Economist explains • World • The world this week • China • United States • Europe • Britain • Middle East & Africa • Asia • The Americas • International • In depth • Science & technology • Graphic detail • Special reports • Technology Quarterly • The World Ahead • Briefing • Essay • Schools brief • Business & economics • Finance & economics • Business • Big Mac index • A-Z of economics • Economic & financial indicators • Culture & society • 1843 magazine • Culture • Obituary • The Economist reads • Summer reads • Christmas Specials • More • Podcasts • Newsletters • Films • The Economist app • Subscriber events • Online courses The United Nations’ nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA), which has a team of monitors at the plant, says that there is “no immediate risk” to the facility. This is because water drawn from Kakhovka reservoir is held in an artificial lake near the plant. Leonid Oliynyk, a spokesman for Energoatom, Ukraine’s nuclear operator, which is based in Kyiv and ran the plant until Russian forces seized it, says the lake holds enough water for a few months. Others are less optimistic. In Enerhodar, a Russian-controlled town near the Zap...

• Defense • ( • Academia • • • Website The Dr. A. Q. Khan Research Laboratories, خان تجربہ گاہ و مراکز تحقیق) or KRL for short, is a federally funded, multi-program national research institute and national laboratory site primarily dedicated to The site was organized to produce The KRL has prestige for conducting research and development to be able to produce As of its current mission, KRL is one of the largest science and technology research sites in Pakistan, and conducts multidisciplinary research and development in fields such as History [ ] Main article: As early as the 1970s, the early stage of Pakistan's After disagreeing with Director Sultan Mahmood's calculations and feasibility report submitted to the government, Prime Minister Bhutto detached the work from PAEC by making Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan its chief scientist in 1976. The Wanting a capable civil engineer to supervise the construction, Bhutto asked the The ERL was intended to spur innovation and provide competition to the 235) containing only ~0.7% [ clarification needed] Khan Research Laboratory (KRL) in honor of its founder and senior scientist 6) being reduced to In the 1990s, KRL had a number of the most high-performance In an investigative report published by Extended research [ ] Main articles: The academic research programs and development opportunities at the KRL are supported by the physics departments of the The continuing efforts to make the laboratories more science efficient led the In 1999, the K...

Author • Najmedin Meshkati Professor of Engineering and International Relations, University of Southern California Disclosure statement Najmedin Meshkati received research funding from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission in the mid-1990s. Partners The Conversation UK receives funding from these organisations View the full list A blast on June 6, 2023, destroyed the Kakhovka dam on the Dnieper River in eastern Ukraine. The rupture lowered water levels in a reservoir upriver at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in the city of Enerhodar. The reservoir supplies water necessary for cooling the plant’s shutdown reactors and spent fuel, which is uranium that has been largely but not completely depleted by the fission reaction that drives nuclear power plants. The International Atomic Energy Agency, which has inspectors on-site to monitor effects of the war at the plant, issued a statement saying that there was The Conversation asked Why are dropping water levels a threat to the power plant? The immediate situation is becoming very precarious. The dam is downstream from the plant, meaning that the flooding will not jeopardize the plant. But the plant draws water from a major reservoir on the river for its cooling system. This reservoir is draining because the downstream dam has been damaged. The plant doesn’t need the massive amount of water it otherwise would because its six reactors are in cold shutdown. But the plant still needs water for three purposes: to reduce the res...

The Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant in southern Ukraine faces "a relatively dangerous situation" from both the Kakhovka dam breach last week and the start of a Ukrainian counteroffensive, the head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog said on June 13. Rafael Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), spoke to journalists in Kyiv after a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and just before leaving for the plant. "I am very concerned," Grossi said. "Quite close to the plant there is active combat." This increases the mathematical probability that the plant could be hit, he said, adding that the IAEA was "trying to make our presence as visible and as impactful as possible to avoid a nuclear accident." The rupture of the dam downstream from the plant reduced the supply of water in a reservoir used to refill a pond that the plant uses to keep its six reactors from overheating. The reservoir can no longer refill the pond because of its falling water level, but the pond can be replenished using deep underground wells, Ukrainian nuclear authorities have said. Enerhoatom, Ukraine's nuclear energy company, said on June 13 that the level of the pond was stable and that the water was high enough to meet the power plant's needs. Grossi said that while there was no immediate danger, it is still a serious situation. "It is a step in the wrong direction," he said. "It is yet another step into the weakening of the safety net that one has in any nuclear...

• 1.2K shares • WhatsApp • Share • Tweet • • Facebook Messenger • After Independence, India did have a decent intelligence body in Intelligence Bureau (IB). But when Pakitan started playing dirty when they supplied arms and ammunition to the Sikh militants, Indira Gandhi thought it prudent that we have our own foreign intelligence agency. We didn’t get an agency, though. We got a Research And Analysis Wing, which is not classified as an agency, and hence does not have to declassify any secrets it holds. Founded in 1968 by the legendary RN Kao, RAW’s first focus was Pakistan and second, China. Why China? Because China was helping Pakistan as a strategic ally, with the common enemy being – India. After India’s Pokhran test in 1974, an arms race was triggered between India and Pakistan. Being very wary of India’s fledging nuclear capabilities, Pakistan sought any help needed to build nuclear weapons for itself. Just as US and Canada helped India with nuclear processing plants, France helped Pakistan in supplying the same technology in the 1970s. Adding to this, Chinese technicians also helped Pakistan to purify Uranium to produce nuclear-grade weapons. Although the French help was known openly, the secret nuclear plant at Kahuta was unknown to everyone, including Israel and India. Israel’s A. Q. Khan, the father of Pakistani Nuclear Program, had visited Pyongyang. Now we know that North Korea got all the secrets of building an atomic bomb because A. Q. Khan literally gave the...