Sunday, September 18, 2011

News Updates

Durgesh Kumar Pal won Gold Medal in 400m Hurdles in the Commonwealth Youth Games
NASA Launched Mission to Study Moon from Crust to Core
NASA's twin lunar Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on 10 September 2011 to study the moon in unprecedented detail.

Explosion occurred at the Marcoule Nuclear Reprocessing Plant in Southern France
An explosion occurred at the Marcoule nuclear reprocessing plant in southern France on 12 September 2011. The explosion resulted in the death of one person while three were seriously injured.

The explosion took place at the Centraco nuclear waste treatment centre, which belongs to Socodei, a subsidiary of the energy giant EDF. Marcoule, in the southern Gard region, is a major nuclear site. Its three reactors have been decommissioned. It is currently a base for reprocessing nuclear waste. \
The site is involved in the decommissioning of nuclear facilities, and operates a pressurised water reactor used to produce tritium.

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