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Jairam agrees to free more forest land for coal mining , Indian Express, 08 Apr 2011 Yielding to intense pressure from the coal ministry and end-user ministries of power and steel, the environment ministry today agreed to consider approval of all proposed mining projects that obtained stage-I fores...

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Nuclear scientists call for exhaustive safety audit, The Hindu, 08 Apr 2011

Not clear:
"scientists" = AK, and apart from him who else?
To whom or at which forum have they said this?

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Now anti-thermal agitation. ‘Look at rashes on my hands' , The Hindu, Friday April 08, 2011. Santhur (Udupi District):The people of Santhur and neighbouring villages in Udupi district vented their anger and frustration at the pollution allegedly caused by the coal-based thermal power plant of Udupi ...

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Perhaps the article linked below will qualify for being a "babu rant" :!: Switch off nuclear power By G V Ramakrishna, Published in The Economic Times on Apr 1 , 2011. Doesn't the title of the article mimic the exclamation "Off with their heads!" by the Queen of Hearts in Alice i...

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Recently there have been a few posts in this thread, regarding independence of the Indian Nuclear Regulatory Authority. In this connection it would be nice to know: (1) Indian Railways is a massive organisation impacting the lives of a very large number of people every day. Is there a Regulatory Aut...

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Abandon the import of nuclear reactors: Dr A Gopalakrishnan Published: Monday, Apr 4, 2011, 3:55 IST [quote]The decision taken by the government to import about 40,000 MWe of Light Water Reactors (LWRs) within the next two decades, has no justifiable technical or economic basis. In spite of repeate...

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New method to recover low-grade uranium from Tummalapalle ore

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I do think that all out efforts must be made to improve the overall thermo-dynamic efficiency. Per my reading, the 750MW designs going up is nothing but the same standardized 500MW ( the thermal out put of both are the same ), but with improved cycle efficiency, they are able to get out more than 5...

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Made-in-India reactors easier to regulate, says Jairam Ramesh [quote]NEW DELHI: India's nuclear power growth must come from home-made heavy water reactors rather than foreign reactors using a variety of technologies in order to avoid Fukushima-style meltdowns, according to Environment Minister Jair...

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Hindu, Front Page, )1 April, 2011 French Nuclear Safety Authority cannot rule out moratorium on Flamanville reactor [quote]Paris: French Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN) president Andre-Claude Lacoste said on Wednesday that he “could not rule out” a moratorium on the third generation EPR nuclear react...

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Some high resolutiion pictures of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant

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It is safe to go ahead with Jaitapur nuclear project The DY Patil University (DYPU) of Kolhapur is associated with the Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project (JNPP). The department of atomic energy (DAE) and the Board of Research In Nuclear Sciences (BRNS) have awarded three projects to the varsity to carr...

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Fast breeder reactors are the least safe - SA Aiyar from the above article: [quote]Risks at other reactor sites have been exaggerated. Jaitapur has some seismic risk, but far less than in reactor sites in Japan and Korea that withstood many earthquakes. Indian coastal reactors survived the 2004 tsu...

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NRao wrote:Radiation in seawater off nuclear plant spikes to 1,250 times normal

Radiation spike report 'mistaken' -- BBC, 27 March 2011 Last updated at 13:31 GMT

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I assume you ment PHWR. In a nuke reactor the only things that break from normal operations are the connecting pipes due to thermal fatigue. In particular the welds which have a stress concentration/dissimilar metals etc. In the PHWR the vessel is below the pipes that connect to it. So if they brea...

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somnath wrote: ...The fact is that we had a planned nuclear power programme that was supposed to be based on the GE BWRs...

somnath-ji,
I am not so sure about it.

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In page 77 of this thread there is a comment dated 18 Mar 2011 which reads: Spot on...Unfortunately people uneducated about history (and science) blabber inanities like "one off" etc...People forget that our power programme was initially very much planned with the GE BWR design in mind...I...

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http://www.etec.energy.gov/History/Major-Operations/SRE-Accident.html or http://www.etec.energy.gov/library/SRE_Accident/sre-C.pdf Amber-ji, I am unable to connect to those two links. I get the error message "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage" (for about 2 days now). I suspect ...

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One thing is still not explained. The US nuclear industry paid a heavy price for Three Mile Island. Why is it that they haven't switched to PHWR tech by now? Just inertia? Certainly there are no proliferation concerns about building a HWR in the US. As I remember, may be a few decades back, Canada ...

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There is this other notion doing the rounds that Indian PHWRs are somehow "superior" in design to LWRs in safety...Based on what? Sorry for this long post. So many pages of this thread have flown by in the time I took to prepare this reply!! I have not had a chance to read recent posts ev...

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Satellite Photos of Japan, Before and After the Quake and Tsunami

There are several pictures, so web page might be slow to load on your computer. The first image is for the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant.

Move the slider to compare satellite images from before and after the disaster.

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^^^ Irrespective of the events at Fukushima npp, for me, we would be better of without the 1600 MWe Areva EPR PWR, or 1000+ MWe BWR/LWR of GE, Westinghouse or Russia at Jaitapur and other sites in India. As I had written in an earlier post, there are some merits in having reactors (our own versions ...

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Partial nuclear meltdown at Fukushima 'no disaster', expert says Any partial meltdown of nuclear fuel in a quake-hit power plant in Japan "is not a disaster" and a complete meltdown is unlikely, a German industry expert said on Sunday. Robert Engel, a structural analyst and senior enginee...

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Latest Updates UPDATE AS OF 7:30 P.M. EST, SATURDAY, MARCH 12 [quote]Clarifying earlier reports, Ichiro Fujisaki, ambassador of Japan to the United States , said no explosion occurred in the reactor containment at Fukushima Daiichi’s Unit 1 . Fujisaki told CNN during its 6 p.m. EST broadcast on Mar...

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1. I think links in this web page may give authentic information on current status of Fukushima Daiichi npp. Perhaps you may like to visit it from time to time to get updated information. 2. This may also be a useful site for getting periodically updated information. 3. Article (popular science leve...

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^^^ Import of npps to be located at Jaitapur has so far been sought to be justified as being necessary to meet a projected (civilian) electricity need. Dr Kakodkar had included the nine thousand or so MWe proposed to be obtained from the Jaitapur npps as a part of the 40,000 MWe which he merely desc...

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A few days back I had posted a comment in this thread indicating that, in my opinion, npp for Jaitapur [and indeed, for all the npps that GOI is bent upon importing], selection of vendor(s) should be based on Global Public Tender(s). In such a process, since there are more than one competent npp ven...

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What’s the real cost of nuclear plant in Maharashtra? [quote]. . . it is revealed that the capital cost of the 9,900MW project has still not been decided. . . . “. . . As a principle, the capital cost of all imported NPP units in India should be such that the unit energy cost from the above plants ...

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Jaitapur hot destination for land deal Developers’ rush triggers 20-fold land price surge. . . . Amar Desai, entrepreneur in the agriculture and horticulture sectors, said, “There were hardly any deals just five years ago. The per-acre land was priced below Rs 1 lakh or even at Rs 50,000 in some de...

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[quote="somnath"][quote="ramdas"]Why does he rule out the 8 PHWRs as a source of WGPu when he himself referred to that being done in before 2008 ?He says economic cost. [/quote] Precisely...And in case they are not to be used for military purposes, why not put them under safegua...

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1. Could this link from Wikipedia refer to the "straight through Graphite moderated reactor supplied by China to Pakistan" indicated by BK in his article? However nothing has been said in the article to indicate proliferation by China into Pakistan. The Pakistan Atomic Research Reactor or ...

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. . . Reactor grade is Pu-239 and weapons grade is Pu-240. . . . I found this definition in Wikipedia which seems to indicate (at least a partial) invert of the above quote. WG Pu needs to be have high isotopic concentration (> 93%) of Pu 239, while RG Pu can be a mix having Pu 239 (< 93%) + Pu240 ...

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There was supposed to be replacement reactor in place. BK is complaining its dual use. Well if your FM needs are being met by the 8 PHWRS and you have a Minimum deterrent it doesn't make sense to have weapons only reactor. What to do SDRE only! I agree. I would be interested to know what technical ...

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BK also ignores reprocessing reactor grade Pu into weapons grade - we have a stockpile of the former... In the context of the discussion, I believe that the idea quoted above was meant to convey that reactor grade Pu can be reprocessed into weapons grade Pu by some means other than using it once ag...

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Bharat Karnad: Nuclear mind games In the article quoted above: [quote]. . . ......, dedicated military-use plutonium reactors cannot be conjured out of thin air nor erected in a trice. Indeed, with the decommissioning of the CIRUS reactor at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, courtesy the ...

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Sanatananji, . . . We know too little about the deal to make any conclusions, and even less to conclude quid pro quo for nuke deal! somnathji, I must apologise if I have given an impression of holding a view that implies the S-Band deal to be quid pro quo for the nuclear deal. What I wanted to conv...

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. . . There is no fence around Indian supreme national interests. -However National agreements have review clauses in case India decides to exercise her supreme national interests. - Hyde Act/India-US IAEA agreement etc. want return of equipment supplied etc which is ridiculous as it would be conta...

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somnathji, While collating the reference material required and preparing a point-by-point response to your last post { :-) } addressed to me (in page 66 of this thread) I realised that my views on most of these points have been posted by me earlier in this Forum and what I have to state now may be r...

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Part 1 -overview of the history of India's nuclear weapons programme. Conversation with strategic guru K Subrahmanyam in July 2008 I had the privilege of listening to a lecture by Pitamaha (the first and only time, although I followed his articles in the print media) when he very forcefully argued ...

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Didnt understand your allusion to "negotiated" price settlement mechanism as opposed to global tendering - can you elaborate? Here we are talking about imported npps. (For indigenous npps, since the only "supplier" of the npp as a whole is NPCIL, a tendering process for setting ...

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