Major uranium reserves found in Srisailam forests

[sathya]

HYDERABAD: India's plan for a 'strategic uranium reserve' received a shot in the arm with a joint research team of the city-headquartered Atomic Minerals Directorate (AMD) and Osmania University discovering significant quantity of uranium reserves in the Srisailam forests.

The AMD-OU team carried out research in an area spread over 45 sq km around Srisailam sub-basin of Kadapa super basin in Andhra Pradesh. A part of the Kadapa super basin extends over to Telangana state. The team zeroed in on Chennakesavula Gutta and Padra villages using the latest equipment to detect the precious radioactive element. The quality of the uranium mineralization discovered in these two areas is superior and comparable to the one available in Canada and Australia, team members informed.

Earlier, the AMD had discovered uranium reserves in pockets of Mahbubnagar, Karimnagar and Nalgonda districts in Telangana and Guntur and Kadapa districts in Andhra Pradesh. Chennakesavula Gutta and Padra are the latest addition to the vast uranium resources in the two Telugu states. Officials have estimated that AP has about five lakh tonnes of uranium reserves, mostly in the Kadapa super basin while Telangana has about a lakh tonnes of the nuclear resource. The latest discovery has added to the country's nuclear fuel security. AP and Telangana together account for 25 per cent of India's uranium reserves.

The research team comprising S Niranjan Kumar of AMD and Vishnu Bhoopathi, RSN Sastry and B Srinivas of the department of applied geochemistry, Osmania University, published the discovery in the recent issue of the Chinese Journal of Geochemistry. "This discovery represents a significant breakthrough and may contribute substantially to the uranium resource of India. More significantly, the geological understanding of this unique mineralization may give definite clues in locating the classical unconformity-type deposits in the northern parts of the Kadapa basin," the geochemists pointed out.

Analysis of the samples collected from Chennakesavula Gutta and Padra villages showed up to 202 parts per million of uranium. Also the uranium deposit in Amrabad mandal of Mahbubnagar district has been found to be unique. "Efforts in the identical geological set-up of Srisailam sub-basin will result in establishing many such deposits of similar quality," they said.

The Uranium Corporation of India has already set up a uranium mining mill at Tummalapalle village in Kadapa district. It has proposed a similar project Lambapur-Peddagattu region in Nalgonda district. A mega nuclear power project has been planned in Srikakulam district and the new discovery in Srisailam is likely to make India self-sufficient in nuclear fuel.

 

[SR-91]

HYDERABAD: India's plan for a 'strategic uranium reserve' received a shot in the arm with a joint research team of the city-headquartered Atomic Minerals Directorate (AMD) and Osmania University discovering significant quantity of uranium reserves in the Srisailam forests.

The AMD-OU team carried out research in an area spread over 45 sq km around Srisailam sub-basin of Kadapa super basin in Andhra Pradesh. A part of the Kadapa super basin extends over to Telangana state. The team zeroed in on Chennakesavula Gutta and Padra villages using the latest equipment to detect the precious radioactive element. The quality of the uranium mineralization discovered in these two areas is superior and comparable to the one available in Canada and Australia, team members informed.

Earlier, the AMD had discovered uranium reserves in pockets of Mahbubnagar, Karimnagar and Nalgonda districts in Telangana and Guntur and Kadapa districts in Andhra Pradesh. Chennakesavula Gutta and Padra are the latest addition to the vast uranium resources in the two Telugu states. Officials have estimated that AP has about five lakh tonnes of uranium reserves, mostly in the Kadapa super basin while Telangana has about a lakh tonnes of the nuclear resource. The latest discovery has added to the country's nuclear fuel security. AP and Telangana together account for 25 per cent of India's uranium reserves.

The research team comprising S Niranjan Kumar of AMD and Vishnu Bhoopathi, RSN Sastry and B Srinivas of the department of applied geochemistry, Osmania University, published the discovery in the recent issue of the Chinese Journal of Geochemistry. "This discovery represents a significant breakthrough and may contribute substantially to the uranium resource of India. More significantly, the geological understanding of this unique mineralization may give definite clues in locating the classical unconformity-type deposits in the northern parts of the Kadapa basin," the geochemists pointed out.

Analysis of the samples collected from Chennakesavula Gutta and Padra villages showed up to 202 parts per million of uranium. Also the uranium deposit in Amrabad mandal of Mahbubnagar district has been found to be unique. "Efforts in the identical geological set-up of Srisailam sub-basin will result in establishing many such deposits of similar quality," they said.

The Uranium Corporation of India has already set up a uranium mining mill at Tummalapalle village in Kadapa district. It has proposed a similar project Lambapur-Peddagattu region in Nalgonda district. A mega nuclear power project has been planned in Srikakulam district and the new discovery in Srisailam is likely to make India self-sufficient in nuclear fuel.




Superior quality, likely to make India SELF-SUFFCIENT.
If true, it could be India's one of biggest news of the century.


They did not say how big is this find?

 

[sathya]

Hahaha it seems they are yet to ascertain the quantity or refusing to divulge ..


Congratulations to AP & telugana , they support defense like no other state.. Both with men and material ..

 

[anant_s]

A mega nuclear power project has been planned in Srikakulam district

Andhra Pradesh govt okays construction of nuclear power plant

 

[Pulsar]

Officials have estimated that AP has about five lakh tonnes of uranium reserves

Wow! That's a lot of nuclear bombs!!

 

[sathya]

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Andhra Pradesh govt okays construction of nuclear power plant

Any idea of make of the reactors ?

Indian or foreign JV ?

 

[Echo_419]

Wow! That's a lot of nuclear bombs!!

Not to forget we can also reduce our reliance on imports

 

[anant_s]

Any idea of make of the reactors ?

Economically Scaled Boiling Water Reactors (ESBWR).
ESBWR (Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor) | GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy


Plans advance for US reactors in India
There are 6 proposed for the site, with each rated at about 1500 MWe.

Indian or foreign JV ?

these will be supplied by GE Hitachi. India's push for an agreement with Japan is for this project as Hitachi is a Japanese company.

 

[sathya]

So it's going under IAEA safe gaurds .

Good to see it more profitable and less ,maaintainence

 

[anant_s]

So it's going under IAEA safe gaurds .

Yes Sir, it will come with fuel guarantees for life time of operation, similar to KKNPP.

 

[migflug]

Excellent. We will be less and less dependent on import. It will be better to start mining in modis rule otherwise NGOs will start their rona dhona

 

[Srinivas]

There is also a talk that Titanium reserves are also found in A.P and Telangana region.

Some clarity about the reports is needed for sure.

 

[acid rain]

This is excellent news. High grade uranium is the need of the hour...keep those "ngo's" and "green peace" activists at bay.

 

[Super Commando Dhruva]

 

[INDIAISM]

It looks like Mother Earth has a special place for Andhra Pradesh...In earlier centuries AP was famous for its Diamond Mines and in present it has coal ,iron ore ,Zinc ,Thorium ,Uranium etc..It looks like integrating Hydrabad into Union of India was the master stroke of Iron Man of India...