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India to become world’s second country uses novel nuclear energy

India to become world’s second country uses novel nuclear energy
john
July 7, 2017

As a big country with huge a consumption rate for energy, India has taken a significant step to find alternative, clean energy source, and now the country will be the world’s second nation to utilize novel nuclear energy.

After 15 years of development and construction, India’s Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) is nearing completion, according to local report.

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The project is a proof of India’s resolve to rely on renewable sources of energy in the future.

India, known as a country with a huge demand for electricity, it is wise to step up its renewable energy game.

Recently, the country announced plans to shut down more than 30 of its coal mines and is steadily veering away from coal-fired plants, so naturally, it needs an alternative.

Also, as the country works to develop its renewable energy sources, perhaps its biggest achievement yet has come from nuclear energy, and its newest nuclear plant is a kind you may not even know existed.

For 15 years now, India’s nuclear scientists have been working on a gigantic nuclear facility in Kalpakkam, a city on the shores of the Bay of Bengal near Chennai.

According to reports, unlike most facilities, this one is a fast breeder nuclear reactor, a technology India has been working to perfect for 27 years now, beginning with an experimental facility called a Fast-Breeder Test Reactor (FBTR).

Fast breeder reactors are different from conventional nuclear plants because the neutrons that sustain the atomic chain reaction travel at higher velocities. This type of reactor is capable of generating more fuel that it consumes, a behavior typically made possible by elemental uranium.

“[F]ast reactors can help extract up to 70 percent more energy than traditional reactors and are safer than traditional reactors while reducing long-lived radioactive waste by several fold,” Yukiya Amano, Director General of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, explained to the Times of India.

Uranium, a known substance of nuclear reactor, isn’t common in India, but the country has the second largest store of thorium, so the Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) in Kalpakkam uses rods of that element.

Prior to India’s PFBR, the only commercially operating fast breeder nuclear reactor was Russia’s Beloyarsk Nuclear Power Plant, located in the Ural Mountains.

Meanwhile, other countries, such as Japan and France, have also tried to develop their own fast breeder technologies, but they haven’t been successful because of technical and safety reasons.

With the PFBR, India is pioneering a kind of nuclear technology that could potentially be the country’s greatest renewable energy source.

As of now, India is the world’s second largest contributor to climate warming gasses, behind only China.

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