Gerard wrote:
Adding the production of Dhruva and the unsafeguarded PHWRs, Ayatollahs MV Ramana and F Von Hippel estimate 200 kg (40 weapons) per year.
An arsenal of ~550 weapons by 2020 ?
Wake up gents. What wodoo science says that PHWR are incapable of geenrating Weapon Grade Pu? Must be a new psudo science taught at Montray NPA Academy.
Pls see following report at
India Research Foundation
Impact of Indo-US Agreement on Indian Strategic Weapon program
Current Indian PHWR reactors that are outside IAEA safeguard annually require 116 tonnes of natural-uranium when operated in a mode optimized for power generation. When operated in a mode optimized to generate weapon-grade Plutonium they require just 747 tonnes of natural-uranium annually, in the process they generate 745 Kg weapon grade Plutonium, which is enough for 248 nuclear weapons per year
This report was written when Tarapur-3 was not yet online, so add 394 kg/year of WgPu if fully operated in low burn mode.
Look at the tabe at the end.
If one considers only 12 current reactors that will remain in military mode after seperation they generate Recator Grade Pu @ 1,453Kg/year for FBR & AHWR. However when operated fully for low burn to generate Weapon Grade Pu it can generate 2,500Kg/year. Now if we wish we can use for another 5 years the other 4 operational rectors of Rawatbhata and Kaiga that wil eventually be seperated and assigned to civilian pool under safeguard.
Ayatollahs MV Ramana and F Von Hippel can drown in their black-magic estimate of 200 kg when they consider just 395kg of Tarapur-3 in their highly scintific anal-asys(sic) much less thousands of Kg RgPu or WgPu India is making today from its all operational non-IAEA reactors.
Princeton Univ is made toilet by such eminent NP Ayutullahas