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POWER-MIX
GWe
1000
800
600
400
200
0
1990
2000
2010
2020
2030
2040
2050
Year
DAE
PC_GDP-Growth 8%
PC_GDP-Growth 9%
2060
300.00
250.00
Additional Import of 6
GWe
200.00
No Additional Import
beyond Kudankulam
GWe
NPCIL 40
150.00
100.00
50.00
0.00
1990
2000
2010
2020
2030
Year
2040
2050
2060
Globally Unique
Stage - II
Fast Breeder Reactors
Stage - III
Thorium Based Reactors
World class
performance
Stage I PHWRs
14 - Operating
4 - Under construction
Several others planned
Scaling to 700 MWe
Gestation period has
been reduced
POWER POTENTIAL
10,000 MWe
LWRs
2 BWRs Operating
2 VVERs under
construction
COMPARISON OF FUEL
CHARACTERISTICS
Calorific
Indian
1000
10
1
0.1
0.01
0.001
0.0001
Natural
sources
Diagnostic
medical X-ray
examination
Atmospheric
Nuclear
testing
Nuclear Power
Production
Low
Nuclear
Existing coal
technologies
no gas cleaning
New coal
Natural gas technologies
technologies
Wind
Low
Greenhouse gas impacts
High
Photovoltaic
Offshore wind
Onshore wind
Hypower
Oil
Natural gas
Coal
Nuclear
1600
700
950
1000
700
Source MW
Cr/ MW Years
Lev/ Cost
Nuclear: 700
5.2
5
152
Coal : 500
4.0
3
164
Gas
: 500
2.7
2
182
Assumptions:
Discount rate: 5%, PLF 80%
Gas @ 3$/ mmBtu,Coal:Delivered Rs1344/T
If uranium is available at international
prices, levelised cost of nuclear generation
can come down to about 115
4
17
1
5
8
1
0
7
1
1
12
16
1
1
3
14
BASIC DATA
FUEL : U-233/THORIUM MOX
+ Pu-239/THORIUM MOX
1 Secondary
Containment
COOLANT : BOILING LIGHT
2 Primary
WATER
3
Gravity Driven Water
Containment
4 Isolation Condenser MODERATOR : HEAVY WATER
Pool
5 Passive Containment POWER
: 300 MW(e)
Isolation Duct
920 MW(t)
6
Vent Pipe
7
8
9
10 Fuelling Machine
11 Deck Plate
12 Calandria with End
Structured peer
review
completed
Shield
13 Header
14 Pile Supports
15 Advanced Accumulator
16 Pre - Stressing
Gallery
17 Passive Containment
Cooler
Pre-licensing
design safety
appraisal by
AERB in
progress
Proton
Accelerator
Beam
Beam
Channel
Transmutation of
long lived
radionuclides
Fission
233
U Fission fragments
Collimator
INSULATION
HEAT UTILIZING SYSTEM INTERFACE VESSELS
CORE - ACCIDENT CONDITION HEAT PIPES
GAS
RECEIVER
UPPER
PLENUM
PASSIVE
HEAT REMOVAL
GAS HEADER
REGULATING
SYSTEM
GAS HEADER
GAS GAP
COPPER/
Other high
STEEL
temperature heat
HIGH TEMP. MATERIAL
applications
LIQUID
METAL (Zn)
RADIAL
HEAT PIPES
START-UP
HEATER
LOWER
PLENUM
POOL OF
MOLTEN
METAL
Pb/Pb-Bi COOLANT
CONTROL TUBE
DRIVER TUBE
REGULATING
MECHANISM
Pictures of
SST-1
Tokamak at
IPR,
Gandhinagar
BASIC OBJECTIVE IS TO
STUDY PHYSICS OF PLASMA
PROCESSES IN TOKAMAK
UNDER STEADY STATE
CONDITIONS
Fusion Energy
India is a member of
ITER group
CHALLENGES AND
STRATEGIES
Indigenous
based
on domestic fuel resources should be a priority for
us.
Nuclear