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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 driverless on Sunday May 21 2017, @01:01PM (1 child)
India has a decades-long track record of going nowhere fast with its reactors. Note how the OP carefully pointed out that:
So if you're worried about proliferation or whatnot, don't.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 21 2017, @09:22PM
Yeah. At about this point in a thread about nukes, I like to note that it takes around a decade from breaking ground until a nuke produces its first energy.
Meanwhile, a neighborhood can be solarized in a week.
proliferation
The problems that I envision are a lot more fundamental.
First, you have a for-profit operation making management decisions about operation/maintenance (e.g. San Onofre, Savannah River).
Next, you have Homer Simpson at the controls (e.g. Three Mile Island).
Underlying this, you have a design/construction done by more for-profit operations with all the corner-cutting that that brings.
...and decisions about where a plant will be located so often seem to completely ignore Mother Nature.
Diablo Canyon was built on the convergence of multiple fault lines. D'oh.
Not only did they build Fukushima on the Ring of Fire, they put it on the Pacific-facing coast of the island where a tsunami could^W did clobber it. D'oh.
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