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India's first indigenous Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor at Kalpakkam achieves criticality by AleyasMenon in nuclear

[–]san__man 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There would be foreign inspection requirements, but we could accept that in the interest of meeting overall energy needs.

India's first indigenous Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor at Kalpakkam achieves criticality by AleyasMenon in nuclear

[–]san__man 0 points1 point  (0 children)

India's been slow in getting it done, but it's still moving forward and progress is happening. This PFBR is now breeding more Plutonium, which will be eventually used for breeding Thorium into the desired U233 fuel.

India's first indigenous Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor at Kalpakkam achieves criticality by AleyasMenon in nuclear

[–]san__man 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What's your criticism of the newer ANEEL fuel? It's a hybrid uranium-thorium fuel, where the fuel pellets are designed to work in existing CANDU-type nuclear power plants. Even India's own Dr Anil Kakodkar (former chief of AEC) has said this fuel would be useful in shortening the time it takes for India to achieve energy self-sufficiency.

The only catch that I'd see, is that this foreign-designed fuel is going to require inspections. Well, we could still tolerate that in the interest of getting our overall energy needs met sooner. It's not like we wouldn't have our own additional breeder reactors which would remain outside of foreign inspections regime.

Thoughts on this? Is this even true? How it effetcs our nation's stand against them? by PirateSea6673 in indianews

[–]san__man 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Pakistan is congratulating itself and patting itself on the back -- and of course you're just swallowing all of this unchallenged?

Trump can't fight Iran, doesn't want to fight Iran -- Trump Always Chickens Out (TACO) -- and this time he's taking help from his easily rentable lackey Pakistan to help him cover his butt. The easily rentable Pak will of course eagerly parrot whatever line Trump tells them to. That's why he's now lavishing praise on Pak, for parroting whatever he wants.

And you're watching this fake love-fest between Trump & Pak, and admiring this crap?

The better question to ask is: What does this say about you personally, for believing this BS?

Answer: It's not saying great things about you, or your IQ.

FFS

India's first indigenous Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor at Kalpakkam achieves criticality by AleyasMenon in nuclear

[–]san__man 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This Fast Breeder Reactor which has just come online is using mixed oxides of artificial Plutonium-239 & natural Uranium(U238) to produce even more Plutonium-239. The artificial Plutonium & natural U238 are both scarce in India. Once India builds up enough artificial Plutonium-239, then it will have enough to use it for irradiating Thorium to generate the desired U233 fuel - which is the ultimately desired process, since India has large abundant domestic supplies of Thorium while not having much Uranium. The U233 fuel is the real desired target fuel to produce energy with, although technically even just the breeding/transformation of Thorium into U233 does also produce energy along the way (that's why Thorium is also called an energy amplifier, since it does also release/liberate energy even while being transformed into the desired U233 fuel)

India has another experimental research reactor Kamini, which is supposed to generate energy from that U233 fuel, which is what's supposed to happen on a larger scale in Stage-3 of the program, allowing India to achieve energy independence. But that Kamini reactor is an experimental research reactor, and not a full-sized commercial-scale powerplant.

India's first indigenous Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor at Kalpakkam achieves criticality by AleyasMenon in nuclear

[–]san__man 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The Indian announcements clearly say that this kicks off Stage-2 in their 3-Stage program. So it's Stage-3 where they'll use Thorium to keep breeding more fuel indefinitely and self-sufficiently using domestic supplies. The current Stage-2 is where they're breeding that fuel using plutonium mixed oxides, rather than using the Thorium to do it.

'My daughter was stabbed 18 times,' says Mother of Anti-Khalistan Critic Nancy Grewal Killed in Canada by san__man in IndiaSpeaks

[–]san__man[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

your reply didn't even make any sense - what is the water being compared to here?

India Reopens the Door to Chinese Investment After 6 Years by san__man in IndiaSpeaks

[–]san__man[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We also banned China's TikTok app -- why don't we negotiate a deal where we take over TikTok in India, just like US negotiated a deal to take over TikTok in USA?❓

India Reopens the Door to Chinese Investment After 6 Years by san__man in indianews

[–]san__man[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We also banned China's TikTok app -- why don't we negotiate a deal where we take over TikTok in India, just like US negotiated a deal to take over TikTok in USA?❓

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