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Plant to vitrify nuclear waste
The waste immobilisation plant at IGCAR, Kalpakkam, will soon become operational

Creating nuclear islands
Though nuclear fuel reprocessing and waste management, including vitrification, are currently not located in one place, the accent now is to bring them all together. “In future, reprocessing and waste management will be ...

Killer freeze of ‘07 illustrates paradoxes of warming climate
Plant ecologists, as well as farmers and gardeners, took note of a particularly harsh turn of the weather in early April, 2007. The ‘Easter freeze’ of April 5-9, 2007, blew in on an ill wind. Plants had been sending out young ...

Low-cost capture of CO2
Carbon dioxide (CO2) emanates from the smokestacks of coal-fired power plants and other generators and is a greenhouse gas. Existing CO2 capture techniques involve the use of solid materials that lack sufficient stability ...
Speaking Of Science

Taming the genie that comes off the genius’s bottle
Science’s effects are biological, environmental, sociological and ethical


Agriculture


FARMER'S NOTEBOOK
Reducing external dependency and increasing food security
Biofarm empowers the farmers to use common resources found locally

Irrigation management, 20 other courses from TNAU
The Directorate of Open and Distance Learning of the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU), Coimbatore, is currently offering twenty one certificate courses for the benefit of farmers, entrepreneurs and self-help groups. ...


FARM QUERIES
Buying Yorkshire pigs
Where can I obtain information on training for rearing white Yorkshire pigs and for buying the piglets? S. Sivaramakrishnan PuducherryYou can contact the Livestock Research Station, Tamil Nadu ...


FARM QUERIES
Organic training
You can contact Dr. G. Nammalvar at No 17/9, 5th cross, Srinivas nagar, Thiruvannaikoil, Tiruchi- 620005, Tamil Nadu, email: nammalvar@gmail.com, mobile: ...


FARM QUERIES
Turmeric formulation
About 1 kg of turmeric tubers is soaked in about 10 litres of cow’s urine overnight. Next day the turmeric tubers are ground and mixed with 30 litres of water and ...


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