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Improving the economic viability of nuclear power plants
IGCAR has been permitted to increase the burn up of its FBTR fuel to 1,04,000 MWd/t. This will help India reach the International benchmark using an indigenous fuel used for the first time in the world, says R. Prasad.

Laser key to chip processing
DETECTIVE WORK Engineers at Purdue University have demonstrated concepts that could eventually save computer chip manufacturers millions of dollars in downtime every year by using lasers to quickly identify and pinpoint the sources of ...
Speaking Of Science
Indigo nation: Champaran to Chandigarh
INDIA'S EXPERTISE in preparing and using vegetable dyes dates back to thousands of years. The Harappans had this technology, as made obvious by the remnants of a dyed fabric, wrapped on a silver vase. Further proof comes form the paintings in ...

Paths Of Innovators
Twins of Invariant theory
JAMES SYLVESTER was born on September 3, 1814 at London, as the youngest son of nine children. His father died while James was a boy. Till the age of 15, he was educated in London, at first in schools for Jewish boys and then for five months at ...

Agriculture
Rice bean — potential fodder crop
RICE BEAN (Vigna umbellate), in spite of its grain yield potential comparable to major pulse crops and excellent nutritional qualities, failed to emerge as an important pulse crop in India. However, by virtue of its high fodder ...
High yielding semi spreading groundnut
A SEMI-SPREADING groundnut variety with high yield potential and attractive red kernels has been developed by the scientists at the department of Oilseeds, Centre for Plant Breeding and Genetics of the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU). ...

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