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posted by n1 on Saturday May 20 2017, @08:23AM   Printer-friendly
from the news-met-with-glowing-reports dept.

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


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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday May 20 2017, @09:11PM (3 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Saturday May 20 2017, @09:11PM (#512731) Journal

    Nope. In the 21st Century, only nitwits come back with "coal" as an argument.

    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]):

    The Carmichael coal mine is a proposed thermal coal mine in the north of the Galilee Basin in Central Queensland, Australia. Mining is planned to be conducted by both open-cut and underground methods.[1] The mine is proposed by Adani Mining, a wholly owned subsidiary of India's Adani Group..

    The mine has drawn immense controversy about its claimed economic benefits,[5] its financial viability, plans for government subsidy and the damaging environmental impacts. Broadly, these have been described as its potential impact upon the Great Barrier Reef, groundwater at its site and its carbon emissions.[6] The emissions from burning the amount of coal expected to be produced from this one mine, whether sourced from it or elsewhere, would be "approximately 0.53-0.56% of the carbon budget that remains after 2015 to have a likely chance of not exceeding 2 degrees warming."
    ...
    The mine is planned to contain six open-cut pits and five underground mines.[2] The surface disturbance area is 27,892 hectares (68,923 acres).[10] The mine site covers an area of 44,700 hectares (110,456 acres), around 447 square kilometres (173 sq mi), and is about 50 kilometres (31 mi) long.[19] This is bigger than many capital cities. For example, if the mine site area is placed over Paris, it covers the central area of the city and stretches to its outer edges.
    ...
    Adani has applied for a water licence to extract up to 12.5 GL per year from the Belyando River for use at the Carmichael mine.[62] The mine will also use groundwater that flows to the surface during the process of “dewatering” the open cut pits and underground mines.

    According to the Supplementary Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) submitted by Adani, “maximum impacts in excess of 300m are predicted” for the local water table. Beyond the mine boundary, Adani’s groundwater model predicts water table levels to drop “typically between 20 and 50m” and “up to around 4m in the vicinity of the [Carmichael] river”.[63] Impacts on ground water were central to a case in the QLD Land Court, where Adani's expert witness defended inferences drawn from drilling data, against allegations that this was insufficient to determine risks of collapses underground that could impact groundwater systems
    ...
    Indigenous landholders mounted a challenge to Carmichael Mine, and called on the Queensland Government to refuse a mining lease to Adani Mining. In a major test of Australia's native title laws, the Wangan and Jagalingou people rejected the Indigenous Land Use Agreement with Adani. Adani then launched legal action (Adani Mining Pty Ltd and Another v Adrian Burragubba, Patrick Malone and Irene White on behalf of the Wangan and Jagalingou People) in the Native Title Tribunal in an attempt to enable the Queensland government to compulsorily acquire the land and push the mine ahead.

       

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  • (Score: 1) by butthurt on Saturday May 20 2017, @11:11PM (2 children)

    by butthurt (6141) on Saturday May 20 2017, @11:11PM (#512775) Journal

    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)

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Sunday May 21 2017, @12:07AM (#512794) Journal

      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.

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      • (Score: 2) by dry on Sunday May 21 2017, @05:01AM

        by dry (223) on Sunday May 21 2017, @05:01AM (#512888) Journal

        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.

        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.