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Contribution from India to IAEA Conference on Nuclear Power and it's Fuel Cycle (1977)

Auteur	Department of Atomic Energy, India
Datum	mei 1977
Classificatie	4.03.0.00/07 (INDIA - ALGEMEEN)
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INDIA’S NUCLEAR POWER PROGRAMME AND CONSTRAINTS ENCOUNTERED IN ITS IMPLEMENTATION

H.N. STHNA, M.R. SRINIVASAN
Department of Atomic Energy,
Bombay,
India

Abstract

INDIA'S NUCLEAR POWER PROGRAMME AND CONSTRAINTS ENCOUNTERED IN ITS IMPLEMENTATION,

Nuclear power development in India is based on natural-uranium fuelled pressurized 
heavy-water reactors. However, to acquire early experience in operation and 
maintenance of nuclear power stations India's first atomic power station comprised 
two units of boiling-water reactors. Subsequent nuclear power stations currently in 
operation or under construction employ natural-uranium heavy-water reactors and 
each is a two-reactor installation. While the first two nuclear power stations employ 
reactors of 200 MW capacity, the subsequent stations employ reactors with an output 
of 235 MW. Heavy-water reactors of 500-MW capacity are foreseen for the period 
beyond 1985. The first nuclear power station was essentially fully imported: the 
second, which employs heavy-water reactors, has already made a significant 
contribution of equipment manufactured in India. For the third nuclear power 
station and for the subsequent one, practically all equipment is being manufactured 
indigenously. The nuclear power station at Narora is in a seismic region and hence 
the design is substantially more advanced than those at the earlier sites and also 
employs concepts which will be used in the 500-MW reactors. Efforts are being 
made in India to integrate power generation systems into larger regional grids and 
eventually into a national grid; however, the distributed nature of power generation 
at present and other infrastructural limitations still favour small and medium-size 
plants only. The paper reports the efforts made since the mid-l960s in establishing 
capability for design and manufacture of all equipment and systems required for 
nuclear power plants. A major constraint in expanding the nuclear power capacity 
is naturally related to the competing demands on available national resources. The 
paper also discusses constraints other than purely technological and financial, and 
describes the efforts being made to overcome them.

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