03-28-2012, 07:14 PM
India's attempt at a reactor 1) isn't working yet, and 2) uses plutonium (the devil's own element). So called "breeder reactors" look good on paper, but so far, no one's gotten one to actually work. Wiki's article is a puff piece:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor
India has an active development programme featuring both fast and thermal breeder reactors.[30]
India’s first 40 MWt Fast Breeder Test Reactor (FBTR) attained criticality on 18 October 1985. Thus, India became the sixth nation to have the technology to build and operate an FBTR after US, UK, France, Japan and the former USSR. India has developed the technology to produce the plutonium rich U-Pu mixed carbide fuel. This can be used in the Fast Breeder Reactor.[31]
At present the scientists of the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR), one of the nuclear R & D institutions of India, are engaged in the construction (already in its final stages) of another FBR — the 500 MWe prototype fast breeder reactor - at Kalpakkam, near Chennai,[32] with plans to build more as part of its three stage nuclear power program.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor
India has an active development programme featuring both fast and thermal breeder reactors.[30]
India’s first 40 MWt Fast Breeder Test Reactor (FBTR) attained criticality on 18 October 1985. Thus, India became the sixth nation to have the technology to build and operate an FBTR after US, UK, France, Japan and the former USSR. India has developed the technology to produce the plutonium rich U-Pu mixed carbide fuel. This can be used in the Fast Breeder Reactor.[31]
At present the scientists of the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR), one of the nuclear R & D institutions of India, are engaged in the construction (already in its final stages) of another FBR — the 500 MWe prototype fast breeder reactor - at Kalpakkam, near Chennai,[32] with plans to build more as part of its three stage nuclear power program.