India to Build New Nuclear Fuel Production Complex

[samlove]

India is planning to construct a new complex where fuel for nuclear power plants will be produced, an official from the Department of Atomic Energy, Jitendra Singh, said Wesdnesday.

“The Government is planning to set up new nuclear fuel complex in the country,” Singh said in a written response to one of the members of the country’s lower house of parliament.

According to the letter, the country’s Nuclear Fuel Complex (NFC) is establishing a facility to manufacture fuel assemblies required for the four pressurized heavy water reactors, located in Kakrapar (Gujarat) and Kota (Rajasthan), being constructed by the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL).

Currently, there are 21 nuclear reactors in India. Eight of them use fuel the country produces itself, while the rest use imported uranium fuel from Russia, Uzbekistan, Canada and Kazakhstan.

 

[Capt.Popeye]

Good. We will have more plutonium to make bombs.

There is quite enough of that stockpiled already. Which is why India is willing to sign the Nuclear Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty. It is reactor fuel that is required, now with Russia, Congo, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Canada already signed up and Australia just about to be signed up; that is getting taken care of.

 

[surya kiran]

There is quite enough of that stockpiled already. Which is why India is willing to sign the Nuclear Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty. It is reactor fuel that is required, now with Russia, Congo, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Canada already signed up and Australia just about to be signed up; that is getting taken care of.

The problem Cap, is people still do not distinguish between warheads and stockpiles. We have 100 warheads, my God! The others have 200! Nobody seems to tell these idiots we have been producing for close to 40 years now and we still have un safeguarded reactors.

As for these, they are under safeguards. So power generation it is. Hopefully, we will see the Southern grid fully supplied. We can then move on to complete electrification of the states.

 

[Capt.Popeye]

The problem Cap, is people still do not distinguish between warheads and stockpiles. We have 100 warheads, my God! The others have 200! Nobody seems to tell these idiots we have been producing for close to 40 years now and we still have un safeguarded reactors.

As for these, they are under safeguards. So power generation it is. Hopefully, we will see the Southern grid fully supplied. We can then move on to complete electrification of the states.

And you forgot to mention that we even have some domestic sources of Uranium....