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2008-06-24 India-Pakistan

Indian Prototype Fast Breeder Reactors massive safety vessel installed

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Posted by john frum 2008-06-24 15:51|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 This will allow India to recycle spent fuel rods from conventional light water plants. They won't need a burial facility and what waste there is will decay in only a few centuries instead of tens of thousands of years.

In fact, they could reprocess US spent fuel for us if they wanted to.

Posted by crosspatch 2008-06-24 16:30|| 2008-06-24 16:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Also spent fuel from their heavy water reactors.

They plan 4 more breeders of 500 MWe size then to move on to 1000 MWe breeders.

They are also beginning construction of a thorium reactor that will also burn Plutonium:

advanced heavy water reactor

Posted by john frum 2008-06-24 18:05|| 2008-06-24 18:05|| Front Page Top

#3 India's Chidambaram on Yucca Mountain

While talking about nuclear waste management, he said India uses closed fuel cycle and this is also required because the same amount of uranium, when you recycle it through fast breeder reactors, will give you 50 times more power and if you close the fuel cycle with thorium, maybe it will give you 600 times more power.

"So if you want to optimally utilise nuclear fuel resources of the world uranium and thorium, you will have to close the nuclear fuel cycle. So, the importance of the three-stage programme goes beyond just building the first generation of reactors," Chidambaram said.

Americans have access to cheaper uranium but now they are also looking at reprocessing but the plutonium stored over a period as waste disposal Yucca mountain is actually a plutonium mine and since the half-life of plutonium is over 24,000 years, it could be used later as other radioactive products in the spent fuel would have died down.

Posted by john frum 2008-06-24 18:10|| 2008-06-24 18:10|| Front Page Top

Posted by john frum 2008-06-24 19:09|| 2008-06-24 19:09|| Front Page Top

#5 WAFF.com Thread > NAVY.RU - RUSSIA WILLING TO HELP UK SCRAP REACTORS FROM NUCLEAR SUBMARINES [11 decommissioned RN nuke subs].

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-06-24 20:40|| 2008-06-24 20:40|| Front Page Top

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