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 c0lo on Saturday May 20 2017, @09:11PM (3 children)
By this definition, your "more sun than USA" India is the supreme nitwit.
I assert the nitwit term is too mild.
From the linked (for your convenience [wikipedia.org]):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1) by butthurt on Saturday May 20 2017, @11:11PM (2 children)
It also says:
Most of the exported coal is planned to be shipped to India.
...which was what I originally assumed was what you wanted us to note.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Sunday May 21 2017, @12:07AM (1 child)
That too.
My points:
1. India is increasing their use of coal - the project is backed by Indian govt subsidies and they plan to use the majority of it.
2. it is done with immediate environmental damage before even a mole of CO2 produced by burning that coal
3. no matter where it is exported/used, the steam turbine it's still a 19 century technology even when improved by the use of newer materials.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by dry on Sunday May 21 2017, @05:01AM
The steam turbine is great technology. The problem is how the steam is generated, nuclear, a huge mirror and the Sun, burning natural gas and methane, burning coal.