India powers past 6,000MW mark in nuclear energy

[ashok321]

ASHAMED TO BE INDIAN

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[gslv mk3]

Belgium has 7 reactors which produce for them 5913MW

India has 22 reactors which produce for them 6000MW

There is something called "efficiency" which is lacking big time in India.

Efficiency? Most of those are 22 reactors are 220 MWe PHWRs.

 

[anant_s]

Why India's nuclear power output is surging
India is on course to double its nuclear power generation capacity to more than 10,000 mega watts (MW) over the next five years
Amit Bhandari| Indiaspend.org February 3, 2015 Last Updated at 13:10 IST

With Prime Minister Modi setting an ambitious goal of tripling nuclear power over the next decade, an analysis by IndiaSpend reveals that India’s nuclear-power sector is in the best shape it has ever been to deliver that target.

India is on course to double its nuclear power generation capacity to more than 10,000 mega watts (MW) over the next five years (see first table).

Generation of nuclear power in India has doubled over the past five years, as IndiaSpend has earlier reported. The new capacity under construction means nuclear power generation will double again over the next five years.


The first of the new reactors under construction, the brand-new 1,000-MW power plant at Kudankulam, Tamil Nadu, started commercial operations on December 31, 2014, while other projects are in the pipeline.

Source: Lok Sabha

The ongoing surge in nuclear power is a direct payoff of the India-US Civil Nuclear Agreement.

The most publicised aspect of this deal is the four power plants that India hopes to build with foreign collaboration.

Progress has been slow, leading some observers to write off the deal.

The nuclear deal has already delivered clear, tangible gains for India, and will continue to do so in the coming years.

Nuclear power plants account for 3.5% of India’s current electricity generation, and its share in India’s future electricity generation will be less than 10% even if the installed capacity is tripled. However, along with other sources of energy such as hydropower and solar-power, it will play a role in reducing India’s reliance on coal for generating electricity.

While progress on power reactors with foreign collaboration has been slow, India’s indigenous reactor program is going along just fine.

Four of the reactors are under construction: two each at Kakrapar and RAPP (Rajasthan) are indigenously designed 700 mw reactors. Work on another pair is expected to start in mid-2015 in Haryana, and six more are planned at three sites (see table below). These indigenously designed reactors appear set to be the workhorses of Indian nuclear program.

Source: Lok Sabha

India has been able to move ahead with these reactors because, unlike the past, fuel availability is no longer a problem.


Before 2008, India’s nuclear power reactors operated at 50% capacity because India did not produce sufficient uranium to run these reactors at full steam. As a non-signatory to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, India was also locked out of the international nuclear marketplace and could not import fuel.
All this changed after the Indo-US nuclear deal. India has since imported uranium from Kazakhstan, Russia and France and is exploring similar agreements with other suppliers, such as Australia.

With more fuel available, capacity utilisation of nuclear power plants has improved from 50% in 2008-09 to more than 80% now (see table below).

India’s Nuclear Energy Generation (Million Units, Left) And Capacity Factor (%, Right)

Source: Lok Sabha, CEA


Currently, 1,940 MW, about 40% of India’s nuclear power capacity, operates under International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards and use imported fuel.

The cost of imported fuel for running these reactors is Rs 330 crore per annum. The low cost of fuel is one of the reasons nuclear power is cheaper than other fuels, such as coal or natural gas.

Compared to power plants using fossil fuels, such as coal or gas, nuclear power has high initial costs. However, fuel cost is a minor expense during the plant’s life, leading to lower lifetime costs for nuclear power compared to either coal or gas.

Nuclear Power Corporation in India (NPCIL) supplies electricity at a lower cost per unit compared to any other energy utility in the public or private sector. Given India’s status as a major importer of petroleum, natural gas and coal, this could be one way of keeping energy costs in check.

http://www.business-standard.com/ar...r-power-output-is-surging-115020300354_1.html

Ask your PM:

Mr Modi is Indian PM. Everybody has a right to assess his performance (Good/Bad), but at the end of day he is leading our country.
Why this bitterness?

 

[punit]

Ask your PM:

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u can ask urs !

 

[kṣamā]

Belgium has 7 reactors which produce for them 5913MW

India has 22 reactors which produce for them 6000MW

There is something called "efficiency" which is lacking big time in India.

Sir,
Did bother checking capacity of those 7 reactors? Also did you bother checking capacity of Indian reactors? Currently we have 2 reactors just breaching into 1000MW whereas they have 2 reactors below 1000MW threshold.

There are a ton of reasons for this disparity and I tried explaining the same in my first post. Secondly India ranks 13th by total power production by Nuclear sources. I was talking of us breaching into top 10 list in total power production not by %age of national power.

And now comming down to your illogical "efficiency" remark. I will give an analogy to help explain. In weddings they prepare rice for 1000 ppl in one big vessel, but at home we prepare rice in very small quantity compared to the weddings. So should we use that big vessel to produce lots of rice and then eat it for next 8months? That would be a complete madness to think so. Now when extrapolating things to electricity the siliness of the idea is much more pronounced. We cannot just produce electricity in bulk and store it somewhere. Production and consummation should be balanced. Look at population map of Belgium and India, and you would have an epifany.

Add to that an old transmission system we have in many parts of our country. Even if produce a truck load of energy, how are you gonna transmit it to place where its needed? I am sure you won't be packing it in 1Kg packs and transporting it by trains and trucks! You need an ultra efficient national grid which distributes the load as and when needed. So tell me is it easy to wire up 30,000sqkm over generally flat terrain or 30,00,000sqkm of, well Indian Terrain.

 

[ashok321]

Efficiency? Most of those are 22 reactors are 220 MWe PHWRs.

They are Indian reactors.
Who stopped India to not come up with bigger ones?

Mr Modi is Indian PM. Everybody has a right to assess his performance (Good/Bad), but at the end of day he is leading our country.
Why this bitterness?

Why should a PM be given a blank check?
And particularly the one who follows ruffians on Twitter as the PM of biggest democracy.

Writes off huge loans for friendly industrialists but not dying kisans.

In Europe a mayor loses his/her job when he or she does not care about fixing a pothole.
Who is Modi?

 

[Mustang06]

Electricity chodo..ye batao kitne bomb bann sakte hai!..JK!
With gradual commissioning of big plants Nuclear energy is set to rise in India!

 

[Nilgiri]

LOL at all you guys interacting and quoting the ashok clown. Ignore him folks....he is a butthurt false flagger.

 

[ashok321]

US firm Westinghouse to start working on planned nuclear plant in Andhra Pradesh

http://www.indiandefensenews.in/2016/09/us-firm-westinghouse-to-start-working.html

 

[Armani]

ASHAMED TO BE INDIAN

Why don't you kill yourself?

 

[Fireurimagination]

Good with NSG membership, new plants, Australian Uranium etc this will only rise in the coming years

 

[Viny]

Belgium has 7 reactors which produce for them 5913MW

India has 22 reactors which produce for them 6000MW

There is something called "efficiency" which is lacking big time in India.

Do you actually know how efficiency is counted?
And how nuclear efficiency is measured?

Your rant is inconsequential when you bring the fossil fuel/hydrocarbon into comparison for nothing.

Per capita, or percentage wise, India does not count in the big league. Period.

If you only knew whats been india's plan on achieving nuclear proficiency.
Please read about India's three staged nuclear plan and how it will make india leader in nuclear energy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India's_three-stage_nuclear_power_programme

We are currently in stage II and work on stage III doing good.

NSG is an inconsequential equation, since India is already covered by a 1-2-3 Agreement and got the waiver.

India is nowhere presently at 4% of electricity generation.
Neither the future belongs to India on this, down the road:

Read: 25% of electricity generation even in the year 2050.

India is a laggard.

So boastful thinking is unwelcome.

Please read 1-2-3 agreement and its implications on indian nuclear requirements.
Its not like buying vegetables from free market. It tooks years to get NSG members honor 1-2-3 agreement in reality and still many of those purchases agreement and deals are yet to come to reality.

They are Indian reactors.
Who stopped India to not come up with bigger ones?

Why should a PM be given a blank check?
And particularly the one who follows ruffians on Twitter as the PM of biggest democracy.

Writes off huge loans for friendly industrialists but not dying kisans.

In Europe a mayor loses his/her job when he or she does not care about fixing a pothole.
Who is Modi?

You dont build test reactors at size of production reactors, most of those where technology test reactors, once we felt comfortable with those, we moved up the the stage and now building bigger reactors.

Stop ranting when you dont understand realities.

Indian Nuclear scientists made very remarkable achievements, Indian scientists leads in submitting the nuclear papers on thorium based nuclear energy and world accepts India has excelled in it and given the size of Thorium reserves we will be leader in it. And all this has been planned upto 2050 and beyond. A with china and US now taking up research in Thorium based reactors, things will speed up globaly.

 

[ashok321]

@Viny

Do you actually know how efficiency is counted?
And how nuclear efficiency is measured?

Instead of bringing in matter which requires nuclear physics lessons, you are better off asking your GOI, why it (India) is lagging behind smaller nations a la Bulgaria & Slovenia drastically.

 

[punit]

Why don't you kill yourself?

what option i have NOW .. RIP sarcasm!

Do you actually know how efficiency is counted?
And how nuclear efficiency is measured?



If you only knew whats been india's plan on achieving nuclear proficiency.
Please read about India's three staged nuclear plan and how it will make india leader in nuclear energy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India's_three-stage_nuclear_power_programme

We are currently in stage II and work on stage III doing good.






Please read 1-2-3 agreement and its implications on indian nuclear requirements.
Its not like buying vegetables from free market. It tooks years to get NSG members honor 1-2-3 agreement in reality and still many of those purchases agreement and deals are yet to come to reality.





You dont build test reactors at size of production reactors, most of those where technology test reactors, once we felt comfortable with those, we moved up the the stage and now building bigger reactors.

Stop ranting when you dont understand realities.

Indian Nuclear scientists made very remarkable achievements, Indian scientists leads in submitting the nuclear papers on thorium based nuclear energy and world accepts India has excelled in it and given the size of Thorium reserves we will be leader in it. And all this has been planned upto 2050 and beyond. A with china and US now taking up research in Thorium based reactors, things will speed up globaly.

DO U really want him to understand ALL these !

 

[Nilgiri]

Why don't you kill yourself?