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India has approved the construction of ten indigenously designed pressurised heavy water reactors (PHWR). India approved the construction of ten 700 MWe units in a “significant decision to fast-track India’s domestic nuclear power program”.
The Cabinet’s announcement did not give any timeline or locations for the new plants, but said the project would result in a “significant augmentation” of the country’s nuclear generation capacity.
India has 6780 MWe of installed nuclear capacity from 22 operational reactors with another 6700 MWe expected to come on stream over the next five years, the cabinet noted. It said the ten new units would be a “fully homegrown initiative”, with likely manufacturing orders to Indian industry of about INR 700 billion ($11 billion).
China is to supply Argentina with two nuclear power reactors – one a Candu pressurised heavy water reactor (PHWR), the other a Hualong One pressurised water reactor (PWR). The contract was among 19 agreements signed yesterday in Beijing during a meeting of Chinese president Xi Jinping and Argentinean president Mauricio Macri.
Source: NextBigFuture.com
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Saturday May 20 2017, @12:51PM (2 children)
Hopefully they will drop this "high pressure water" thing and use liquid metal or salts instead. Which should avoid heavy ecosystem contamination issues and explosive bursts of radioactive substances like in Chernobyl.
(Score: 2) by turgid on Sunday May 21 2017, @07:45PM (1 child)
...and replace it with a heat exchanger that uses water under pressure to extract the heat from the molten metal (Na/K eutectic) primary cooling loop :-) What could possibly go wrong [wikipedia.org]? Apparently the Na itself likes to absorb neutrons and becomes highly radioactive as a result.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Sunday May 21 2017, @11:12PM
Use molten lead? the point is that water under high pressure combined with radioactivity is a bad idea. Fukushima Daiichi is an example of this. Anyway the Monju reactor site seems plagued with a negligent, lying and clumsy management.
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