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sanjaykumar wrote:Hai Allah. India needing nuke tech from Korea.

For very large generation 3+ reactors, production of the pressure vessel requires, or is best undertaken by, forging presses of about 140-150 MN (14-15,000 tonnes) capacity which accept hot steel ingots of 500-600 tonnes. These are not common, and individual large presses do not have high throughput – about four pressure vessels per year appears to be common at present, fitted in with other work, though the potential is greater than this. Westinghouse was constrained as of 2009 in that the AP1000 pressure vessel closure head and three complex steam generator parts can only be made by JSW. Areva has a little more choice. Reactor vendors prefer large forgings to be integral, as single products, but it is possible to use split forgings which are welded together. These welds then need checking through the life of the plant. Also, whereas Generation II reactors might require some 2000 tonnes of forgings, EPR and AP1000 units require about twice the amount.Westinghouse says that the minimum requirement for making the largest AP1000 components is a 15,000 tonne press taking 350 tonne ingots.The very heavy forging capacity in operation today is in Japan (Japan Steel Works), China (China First Heavy Industries and China Erzhong) and Russia (OMZ Izhora).New capacity is being built by JSW and JCFC in Japan, Shanghai Electric Group (SEC) and subsidiaries in China, and in South Korea (Doosan), France (Le Creusot), Czech Rep (Pilsen) and Russia (OMZ Izhora and ZiO-Podolsk). New capacity is planned in UK (Sheffield Forgemasters) and India (Larsen & Toubro, Bharat Heavy Electricals, Bharat Forge Ltd). In China the Harbin Boiler Co. and SEC subsidiary SENPE are increasing capacity.

Early in 2009, L&T signed four agreements with foreign nuclear power reactor vendors. The first, with Westinghouse, sets up L&T to produce component modules for the Westinghouse AP1000 reactor. It said that this would enable the two companies "to utilize indigenous capabilities for the turnkey construction of nuclear power plants including supply of reactor equipment and systems, valves, electrical & instrumentation products and fabrication of structural, piping and equipment modules for Westinghouse AP1000 plants." The second agreement was with Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd (AECL) "to develop a competitive cost/scope model for the ACR-1000." In April L&T signed an agreement with Atomstroyexport primarily focused on components for the next four VVER reactors at Kudankulam, but extending beyond that to other Russian VVER plants in India and internationally. Then in May it signed an agreement with GE Hitachi to produce major components for ABWRs - the two companies hope to utilize indigenous Indian capabilities for the complete construction of nuclear power plants including the supply of reactor equipment and systems, valves, electrical and instrumentation products for ABWR plants to be built in India.
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Following the 2008 removal of trade restrictions, Indian companies led by Reliance Power (RPower), NPCIL and Bharat Heavy Electricals (BHEL) plan to invest over US$ 50 billion in the next five years to expand their manufacturing base in the nuclear energy sector.

State-owned Bharat Heavy Electricals (BHEL) (BHEL) claims to be the largest engineering and manufacturing enterprise in India in the energy-related infrastructure sector, and has provided some 80% of the heavy equipment for India's indigenous nuclear power program. It is supplying the steam generators for the first 700 MWe series of reactors, at Kakrapar, based on its design for the 540 MWe units. It is in the process of doubling its production capacity over four years from 10,000 MWe of plant per year (Dec '07), and planned to spend $7.5 billion in two years building plants to supply components for reactor units of 1,600 MWe. It also planned to set up a 50-50 venture with NPCIL that will supply components for nuclear plants of 700 MWe, 1,000 MWe and 1,600 MWe. It is planning to install a 10,000 tonne forging press. It is also setting up an office in Shanghai in 2009 to source castings and forgings.
BHEL has set up a joint venture with NPCIL to supply turbines for nuclear plants of 700 MWe, 1,000 MWe and 1,600 MWe and to seek overseas partners to provide technology for this enterprise. In July it announced that it was close to finalising a European partner to take 30-35% of this joint venture.
BHEL in 2008 set up a joint venture with Heavy Engineering Corp (HEC) for making castings and forgings for nuclear power plants, based on upgrading HEC's plant. BHEL was planning to set up a greenfield manufacturing base in India for nuclear forgings and was in talks with UK-based Sheffield Forgemasters International Ltd and Japan's Kobe Steel for possible joint ventures in nuclear forgings. Then in March 2009 BHEL said it was likely to join the Areva-Bharat Forge joint venture to produce nuclear castings and forgings, instead of going it alone, this intention being confirmed in July. Shortly after, it announced a ten-year technology transfer agreement with Sheffield Forgemasters for large power plant components. Another joint venture is with NPCIL and a foreign partner to make steam generators for 1000 - 1600 MWe plants.Bharat Forge Ltd (BFL) is a multinational company which claims to be among the largest and technologically most advanced manufacturers of forged and machined components, mostly for the automotive industry. It is said to be the world's second-largest forging company and is extending its activities into the power sector. In 2008 it formed a joint venture with Alstom primarily for manufacturing state-of-the-art supercritical power plant equipment in India, though the enterprise may extend to nuclear applications. In January 2009 it signed a memorandum of understanding with Areva to set up a joint venture in casting and forging nuclear components for both export and the domestic market, by 2012.
BFL has commissioned a 400 tonne forging press at Pune, and a 15,000 tonne press is due to be commissioned by 2012. BFL is part of the Kalyani Group - a US$ 2.4 billion conglomerate.

After asserting that anti-Kudankulam nuclear protests were being fuelled by the 'foreign hand' and putting several NGOs under scanner, the government released a data in Parliament that shows Tamil Nadu NGOs have received the maximum number of foreign contributions in the past three years.

The data shows TN received 10,119 contributions from across the world with total donations adding up to over Rs 4,800 crore between 2008 and 2011. Over 30,000 contributions were received by all across the country during this period with TN cornering more than 30% of contributions in numbers.

The government reply also said, "There were reports that certain NGOs were engaged in anti-national and political activities."

The house was also informed that Coimbatore-based NGO Tamil Nadu Muslim Muneetra Kazagham (TNMMK) was being investigated by CBI. TNMMK had lent support to the anti-Kudankulam protests and some of its members were also arrested during a September protest. Some other NGOs under investigation by the Tamil Nadu Police include AID India (Chennai), Saccer (Nagercoil) and Centre for Promotion of Social Concern.

krisna wrote:Records back 'foreign hand’ behind Tamil Nadu NGOs

After asserting that anti-Kudankulam nuclear protests were being fuelled by the 'foreign hand' and putting several NGOs under scanner, the government released a data in Parliament that shows Tamil Nadu NGOs have received the maximum number of foreign contributions in the past three years.

The data shows TN received 10,119 contributions from across the world with total donations adding up to over Rs 4,800 crore between 2008 and 2011. Over 30,000 contributions were received by all across the country during this period with TN cornering more than 30% of contributions in numbers.

The government reply also said, "There were reports that certain NGOs were engaged in anti-national and political activities."

The house was also informed that Coimbatore-based NGO Tamil Nadu Muslim Muneetra Kazagham (TNMMK) was being investigated by CBI. TNMMK had lent support to the anti-Kudankulam protests and some of its members were also arrested during a September protest. Some other NGOs under investigation by the Tamil Nadu Police include AID India (Chennai), Saccer (Nagercoil) and Centre for Promotion of Social Concern.

some were saying all were local onlee.

Indeed local people with foreign hand and anti national activities.

krisna wrote:Records back 'foreign hand’ behind Tamil Nadu NGOs

After asserting that anti-Kudankulam nuclear protests were being fuelled by the 'foreign hand' and putting several NGOs under scanner, the government released a data in Parliament that shows Tamil Nadu NGOs have received the maximum number of foreign contributions in the past three years.

The data shows TN received 10,119 contributions from across the world with total donations adding up to over Rs 4,800 crore between 2008 and 2011. Over 30,000 contributions were received by all across the country during this period with TN cornering more than 30% of contributions in numbers.

The government reply also said, "There were reports that certain NGOs were engaged in anti-national and political activities."

The house was also informed that Coimbatore-based NGO Tamil Nadu Muslim Muneetra Kazagham (TNMMK) was being investigated by CBI. TNMMK had lent support to the anti-Kudankulam protests and some of its members were also arrested during a September protest. Some other NGOs under investigation by the Tamil Nadu Police include AID India (Chennai), Saccer (Nagercoil) and Centre for Promotion of Social Concern.

some were saying all were local onlee.

Indeed local people with foreign hand and anti national activities.

He is the face of the anti-nuclear protests in Kudankulam. S.P. Udayakumar tells Meera Srinivasan that the movement has its limitations when confronting government

Attired in a sky-blue shirt with sleeves folded to three-quarters length and a black and blue checked lungi, he meets us at the home of Jesuraj, priest attached to the church in Kuthanguli — the fishing hamlet adjoining Idinthakarai.

His trimmed beard shows clear signs of greying, his metal-frame glasses and poise — these make for a charming cross between an academician and an activist. “I feel vulnerable outside these two (Idinthakarai and Kuthanguli) villages,” he says.

“Until now, we protested in a peaceful manner upholding our principle of non-violence. But if governments do not respect that, the message going out to youngsters is that henceforth, only Maoism will work in India.”

Asked why, the 35-year-old mother of four replied: “We saw a video at the church showing children with deformities caused by accidents at nuclear reactors. Ask anyone here, they will tell you that we don’t want the plant.”

To prove her point, Pramasakthi flagged down a young girl. “Tell her, do you need the plant,” she commanded the girl. “No, we don’t need the plant. It will cause diseases,” the girl replied flatly. What diseases? “Dengue,” the girl, a student of class IX, replied. “Our teacher told us.”

Asked why, the 35-year-old mother of four replied: “We saw a video at the church showing children with deformities caused by accidents at nuclear reactors. Ask anyone here, they will tell you that we don’t want the plant.”

To prove her point, Pramasakthi flagged down a young girl. “Tell her, do you need the plant,” she commanded the girl. “No, we don’t need the plant. It will cause diseases,” the girl replied flatly. What diseases? “Dengue,” the girl, a student of class IX, replied. “Our teacher told us.”

“The Nuclear Desalination Demonstration Plant (NDDP) located at Kalpakkam [off Chennai], Tamil Nadu, is the world’s largest hybrid seawater desalination plant coupled to an existing nuclear power plant,” says Dr. P.K Tewari, Head, Desalination Division, BARC, Mumbai.

Significantly, some of the experts working in Kudankulam nuclear plant are of Ukrainian origin.

Amid hectic pre-commissioning system checks at the first 1000 MW unit of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) in Tamil Nadu, anti-KNPP protestors made another attempt to lay siege the plant by the sea route on Monday, reiterating their demand for closure of the Russia-aided project.

The People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) activists and their supporters, mainly the fishing community, arrived in 150 boats raising slogans and rowing up to 500 meters of the plant complex.

But with a massive security build-up in the vicinity and nearby villages, the protests passed off without any untoward incidents, the police said. “Let there be a nation-wide debate on nuclear powerprojects and let this be a national issue for the next Lok Sabha polls,” said S P Udayakumar, convenor of ‘PMANE’ who is spearheading the protests continuously for over 15 months now. Monday’s protest also coincided with world human rights day.

Fishermen of several villages around the power plant did not venture into the sea on Monday as a mark of solidarity with the protestors.

They urged the development package announced for Kudankulam and nearby villages to be put on hold until a consensus emerged on the larger issue of desirability of nuclear power. The stir also spread to Madurai where 200 people protested against the atomic power project.

When asked about the local church backing the anti-KNPP protestors, Dr Guha said: “In many cases it is true the priests are behind such protests, but it should not be the basis of your larger political agenda. The point is you cannot base your environmental programme on religion. It can be based on local customs (related to the local community’s livelihood),” the author reasoned.

(ii) the two sides embarked upon a nuclear civilian energy cooperation road map that may well be worth a whopping $45 billion in the long term. This long-term map may be up to the year 2030.
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embark upon an ambitious roadmap for deepening their cooperation in civilian nuclear energy and construct 16 to 18 nuclear energy plants in India of 1,000MW each. This would translate into an impressive sum of $ 45 billion at today’s prices, factoring in a total of 18 new proposed nuclear plants of 1,000MW each at a price band of $ 2.5 billion. The idea is to have one nuclear plant ready every year for the next 18 years.
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Kudankulam woes are over – despite the local protests. The doubts over Kudankulam 3 and 4 should be effectively over. The Indians have conveyed that it will be business as usual with the Russians in the nuclear energy sector despite whatever obstacles that may have surfaced in context of Kudankulam 1 and 2.
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One needs to know why Putin came all the way to India for just a 15–hour visit (of which his official engagement lasted just about five hours). The most important reason is the Indo-Russian bilateral relations as they are set to play out in the next two decades.

If the nuclear energy roadmap works out as per the script, it would mean that the Russians would be leading partners of the Indian civilian nuclear energy story as they would be contributing over 20 percent of the total Indian power production
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sum wrote:Another bid to lay siege to Kudankulam plant foiled

When asked about the local church backing the anti-KNPP protestors, Dr Guha said: “In many cases it is true the priests are behind such protests, but it should not be the basis of your larger political agenda. The point is you cannot base your environmental programme on religion. It can be based on local customs (related to the local community’s livelihood),” the author reasoned.

Meanwhile, eminent writer and environmental historian, Dr Ramachandra Guha in Chennai strongly disapproved the way in which the Tamil Nadu (TN) government has been handling the protests. Mechanically dubbing the protestors as “foreign agents” was unacceptable, Guha said, interacting on Monday at a national seminar on ‘Exploring Current Issues in Sustainability’ at IIT-Madras.

“When fisher-folks are protesting against nuclear power in Tamil Nadu, sedition cases are slammed against them, this is worrisome,” Guha asserted.

The historian also came down on the Centre “as being under tremendous pressure exercised by the most powerful economic and political forces to dismantle all environmental safeguards in the country.

Neela wrote:{quote="sum"}Another bid to lay siege to Kudankulam plant foiled

When asked about the local church backing the anti-KNPP protestors, Dr Guha said: “In many cases it is true the priests are behind such protests, but it should not be the basis of your larger political agenda. The point is you cannot base your environmental programme on religion. It can be based on local customs (related to the local community’s livelihood),” the author reasoned.{/quote}

What is he saying here? Whose political agenda? Is this guy writing books when he cannot explain a thought clearly?

Meanwhile, eminent writer and environmental historian, Dr Ramachandra Guha in Chennai strongly disapproved the way in which the Tamil Nadu (TN) government has been handling the protests. Mechanically dubbing the protestors as “foreign agents” was unacceptable, Guha said, interacting on Monday at a national seminar on ‘Exploring Current Issues in Sustainability’ at IIT-Madras.

“When fisher-folks are protesting against nuclear power in Tamil Nadu, sedition cases are slammed against them, this is worrisome,” Guha asserted.

So this is how it panned out. First they denied there were foreign elements and foreign funding. That unraveled pretty quickly. And when sedition charges are slammed, he says this is worrisome. Why? Law of the land not supreme? This is why the "minorities" and the elites disgust me. LAws should not be applied to them and they are beyond judgement because they ARE minorities or special.
Guha the Gube should explain when sedition charges should be applied then? Maybe he can act as a consultant to the lawyers and judges.

The historian also came down on the Centre “as being under tremendous pressure exercised by the most powerful economic and political forces to dismantle all environmental safeguards in the country.

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Really? This schoolboy arguments and this guy gets invited to speak ?
And this explanation passes off as an opinion .

Lilo wrote:I have a Q - is it possible that the declared "self imposed" moratorium on nuke tests by India is to actually help the Pakis to keep up their clown jewel pretense in-spite of being actually nuke nood and to spare the US-China combo the logistics headache of supplying a new set of nukes if testing becomes inevitable ?

sum wrote:in national magazines like "WEEK"

"The three-tier security arrangement is only for the plant and not for the officials," said the letter

SSridhar wrote:

sanjaykumar wrote:Hai Allah. India needing nuke tech from Korea.

Many years back, I was in a flight with a Korean as my next seat passenger. We got talking and he said he was in India to assist in setting up a power plant. He also wondered why India should have invited a Korean company to set up this plant as India had vastly more experience in that business.

SSridhar wrote:Koodankulam Project official Receives Threat Letter
A long time back we discussed here how these people should be handled. No leniency to these thugs.

"The three-tier security arrangement is only for the plant and not for the officials," said the letter

The Director-General of CERN (European Organisation for Nuclear Research), Rolf-Dieter Heur on Saturday pitched for India becoming an associate member of the organisation.

CERN was instrumental in the discovery of the so-called ‘God particle’ – an elementary particle believed to exist in physics — in July last year.
Right time

“This is the right time for India to be an associate member of CERN,” Heur said here on the sidelines of a session organised by the Indian Science Congress, adding that the matter has also been taken up with Union Minister for Science and Technology S. Jaipal Reddy.

The associate membership of CERN will not only open the doors of mega science experiments for Indian scientists but also help them participate in training and education programmes held at the laboratory, he said.

India, currently, enjoys an observer status and needs to make a payment of nearly 10 million Swiss Francs to CERN for associate membership.
Approvals

A proposal in this regard was sent by Indian scientists to the Centre and is awaiting approval.

According to Bikash Sinha, eminent scientist and Homi Bhabha Professor of the Department of Atomic Energy, the proposal to make India an associate member is awaiting clearance from the Prime Minister’s office (PMO).

“We hope to get the necessary clearances from the PMO soon,” Sinha said.

According to him, associate membership of CERN will allow Indian industry to participate in bids for CERN contracts across various sectors, including in niche areas like developing equipment for crucial experiments.

A drastic cut in India’s science budget is likely to delay implementation of several mega projects that would have allowed researchers to join hands with scientists and engineers from abroad to create world-class facilities for exploring frontier areas of science.

These international mega-science projects range from Indian Neutrino Observatory (INO) in Tamil Nadu and Square kilometre Array (SKA) in Australia to Facility for Anti-proton and Ion Research (FAIR) in Germany. India will also be partnering in Thirty Metre Telescope (TMT) and Laser Interferometer Gravity Observatory (LIGO) whereas the ongoing collaboration on high-energy physics at CERN, near Geneva, one of the outcomes of which was the discovery of Higgs Boson, would continue in full flow.

“We have approved 4 to 5 new mega science projects in the 12th plan including SKA, LIGO and TMT,” K Kasturirangan, member (science) in the Planning Commission told Deccan Herald on the sidelines of centenary edition of Indian Science Congress here.
Notwithstanding the commission’s approval, financial constraints remains the biggest bottleneck in realising these projects as science budget was cut by 35 per cent in the current fiscal crippling a large number of ongoing programmes, sources said.