dear friends, i have not been able to understand the projection of 2030 or 2020 because india's energy need is more than 100 times larger than what is being projected through n-deal i.e. 2052 mw. the uranium reserves are limited, we can't expect our needs to be fullfilled through uranium energy plants even 10%. even if the n-deal gets operationalised, the first energy we will get from it not earlier than 2020. than why this is so much hue and cry? moreover indian scientists are working to build reacter to get energy through thorium, and thorium reserves are so ample in india that it is sufficient for world need for more than 1000 years. china recently has developed a small prototype of reacter based on thorium. when our scientists are working on such thorium based reactres why we should not provide them more and more adequate fascilities because through thorium to get energy it will also take as much same time as it is projected through uranim. once thorium based reactres get operationalise fully it will solve the world energy crisis. than why we are running to US for uranium based deal on US terms which is not going to fullfill our 2% energy need by 2030 as being projected?
RE:The Indo-US nuclear deal explained
by ravishankar singh on Jul 12, 2008 03:05 PM Permalink
my friends, it is true that to functionalise thorium based reacters uranium is needed but in very small quantity and that much is avialable in india or india will be able to get it. what i feel that US is eyeing over our vast thorium resevoirs as it has done in Arab over petrolium by providing technical know how US has become masters of the Arabs fuel reservoirs . similarly US is eying over our vast reserves of thorium by traping indian government through its Hyde Act and indian sovereignty is going to hide befor Hyde! why should we not wait for some time and engage our scientists to exclarate thorium based reacters rather falling into trap of US as it has done in Arab countries for fuel?
RE:The Indo-US nuclear deal explained
by Govindan on Jul 13, 2008 02:42 PM Permalink
Kindly read the paper report given below:-
“But the FBTR still needs an initial inventory of plutonium to kick-start the thorium cycle and eventually to generate electricity. A blanket ban on India re-processing imported uranium - a condition for nuclear cooperation with the US - could make India's thorium programme a non-starter.
Iyengar has one suggestion that he says must be acceptable to the US if it is serious about helping India to solve its energy problem.
'The US and Russia have piles of plutonium from dismantled nuclear weapons,' Iyengar told IANS, adding: 'They should allow us to borrow this plutonium needed to start our breeders. We can return the material after we breed enough.'”
In the Hyde Act it is clearly written that US President should ensure that plutonium production in India does not increase the day 123 agreement is signed by both the parties. Indirectly this is a cap on our plutonium production and development of FBTR . Indirectly Americans want to stop our development and research work.
Economic viability of USA reactors.
USA reactors are three times costlier than thermal power stations and about two times costlier than Russian make reactors. So Cost of unit will be three times higher and it will be like Enron project in Dhabol. Just like crude oil we have to depend on foreign countries for the fuel supply and what is the surety that nuclear suppliers group will not charge exorbitant price in future.
RE:The Indo-US nuclear deal explained
by Sanjay on Jul 13, 2008 03:13 PM Permalink
ravishanker,
What india has thorium based reactor since 1996 the only reactor in the world using U-233. We can have a commercial sacle up and running but this govrnment has cut th budget for the thorium plant, heavy water production, and nuclear fuel complex. A scondrel governmnt indeed.
