India's new 1400 MW Nuke Plant, BHEL achieves breakthrough in Nuclear Power

[Indo-guy]

FB uses high energy newtron for chain reaction. so advantage is thet if fuel is not very pure, chain reaction will not stop and there will be a very high burn out ratio.

Non radio active material such as thorium is put in FB which absorbs newtron and becomes fuel which can be used in another type of reactor to generate energy.

FB is a very critical technology in which we have moved a way ahead.

Thorium is non radioactive material ????

LOL please read what you are typing and then post !

It will be good to research about what you are trying to say and it makes sense or not ....before posting .

wiki is just click away ..take little trouble

It is easy to copy -paste rather than coming out with your own non -existent theories ....

 

[vsdave2302]

Thorium is non radioactive material ????

LOL please read what you are typing and then post !

It will be good to research about what you are trying to say and it makes sense or not ....before posting .

wiki is just click away ..take little trouble

It is easy to copy -paste rather than coming out with your own non -existent theories ....

My bad!

Pl read fissile material in place of radio active.

Please explain!!

Pl read fissile material in place of radio active material in my post.

Sorry for inconvience!

 

[Indo-guy]

My bad!

Pl read fissile material in place of radio active.

No problem. just be sure to check facts ....

Your explanation about how FBR works is also not correct ....

you can check wikipage to understand it better ...

 

[vsdave2302]

No problem. just be sure to check facts ....

Your explanation about how FBR works is also not correct ....

you can check wikipage to understand it better ...

I do not think so.
Pl correct it if it is wrong. Which part did you find incorrect?

 

[Indo-guy]

I do not think so.
Pl correct it if it is wrong. Which part did you find incorrect?

Lot of inaccuracies ...

why don't you go through our detailed and protracted discussion on the issue in following threads .

we had posted many articles and sources ....


India designs World's first Thorium based Nuclear Reactor


India's 1'st Commercial Fast Breeder Reactor 96% complete

 

[vsdave2302]

Lot of inaccuracies ...

why don't you go through our detailed and protracted discussion on the issue in following threads .

we had posted many articles and sources ....


India designs World's first Thorium based Nuclear Reactor


India's 1'st Commercial Fast Breeder Reactor 96% complete

i ask you to highlight those inaccuracy in a very brief post. Pl do it. I request you once again.

 

[Indo-guy]

i ask you to highlight those inaccuracy in a very brief post. Pl do it. I request you once again.

FBR can use Thorium ... but does not needThorium primarily. It is used to convert non fissile uranium to plutonium mainly.

FBR also helps to convert Thorium into uranium ....which can be used to generate plutonium ...

Importance of FBR lies in producing enough Uranium from thorium which can be used in AHWR ( thermal Breeder Reactor ) which can subsequently utilize Thorium as fuel on much larger scale.

This has been a great source of confusion for many ( including myself ) ....and so has been clarified in the following thread

India designs World's first Thorium based Nuclear Reactor

 

[vsdave2302]

FBR can use Thorium ... but does not use Thorium primarily. It is used to convert non fissile uranium to plutonium mainly.

Importance of FBR lies in producing enough plutonium which can be used in AHWR ( thermal Breeder Reactor ) which can utilize Thorium as fuel .

This a great source of confusion for many ....and so has been clarified in the following thread

India designs World's first Thorium based Nuclear Reactor

Pl understand.

FBR uses U 238 as fuel. It can use Th 232 as well (But this is not available in Raw form and can not be used straight awayl).

Thorium is put in FBR to extract neutrons and become fissile material which will be use in AHW as fuel in third and last stage of cycle (So far as India is concern). Am i right?

• Thorium is more abundant in nature than uranium.

• It is fertile rather than fissile, and can only be used as a fuel in conjunction with a fissile material such as recycled plutonium.

• Thorium fuels can breed fissile uranium-233 to be used in various kinds of nuclear reactors.

• Molten salt reactors are well suited to thorium fuel, as normal fuel fabrication is avoided.

Thorium

 

[Indo-guy]

Pl understand.

FBR uses U 238 as fuel. It can use Th 232 as well (But this is not available in Raw form and can not be used straight awayl).

Thorium is put in FBR to extract neutrons and become fissile material which will be use in AHW as fuel in third and last stage of cycle (So far as India is concern). Am i right?

• Thorium is more abundant in nature than uranium.

• It is fertile rather than fissile, and can only be used as a fuel in conjunction with a fissile material such as recycled plutonium.

• Thorium fuels can breed fissile uranium-233 to be used in various kinds of nuclear reactors.

• Molten salt reactors are well suited to thorium fuel, as normal fuel fabrication is avoided.

Thorium

Yeh that's correct . But unlike most people misunderstand FBR is not thorium reactor ...

In absence of AHWR FBR does not make sense .

I thought like most people you also mistook FBR for thorium reactor .