Canada keen to start uranium supplies to India: Envoy

[illusion8]

Your ideas are good in principle. However the per/MW cost of generation by the Non-Conventional means is still too high as to be not commercially viable on the scale required for India's growing requirements. Hence Nuclear will have to step in to replace Thermal/Coal for the larger part. While Wind can certainly be accelerated in it utilisation followed by Solar.
Tidal is still some way off as a practicable source of energy based on cost/benefit ratios.

Quite right, Solar / Waste management power generation is quite costly, Electricity boards pay three times the price for power generated by these means just to fulfill Green energy requirements.

Thermal / Hydel/ nuclear are cheaper forms of generation and thermal / hydel will remain the predominant form of power generation in the near future - India targets to produce 60000 megawatts trough nuclear plants by 2050 and this figure will be roughly 25% of our requirement.

Wind is the cheapest of all.
@Skull and Bones, bumped the thread when I was going through the highest Uranium reserves country wise and came across this article and saw the thread in PDF - hope u don't mind.

 

[Capt.Popeye]

Not just paisa, in this field India's great non-proliferation record has much to do with nations lining up for nuclear biz. India has even offered small 220 MWe reactors to nations like Vietnam and Kazakistan.
Infact india has Canada to thank that supplied India with its first CANDU reactor at Rajasthan (RAPS 1&2) based on Douglas point design of 200 MWe in 1970s. This design was later modified as India's own IPHWR of 220 MWe which forms the bedrock of Indian civilian nuclear program.

The CANDU type design has been one of the best Nuclear Reactor designs ever made, with high PLFs, low down-times and redundant safety features.
India used that basic design and refined it further to create a series of CANDU derivatives of higher ratings.

 

[anant_s]

The CANDU type design has been one of the best Nuclear Reactor designs ever made, with high PLFs, low down-times and redundant safety features.
India used that basic design and refined it further to create a series of CANDU derivatives of higher ratings.

Had it not been Pokhran 1, Canada would have shared 500 MWe derivates of CANDU 6 design in late 70s/early 80s and Indian nuclear program would've been on an altogether different level from where it is now. However the main reason for choosing CANDU was that it doesnot require enriched Uranium as fuel and hence althought the first civil reactor (at Tarapur) were GE's BWR, India went for simpler CANDU design.

 

[neehar]

Your ideas are good in principle. However the per/MW cost of generation by the Non-Conventional means is still too high as to be not commercially viable on the scale required for India's growing requirements. Hence Nuclear will have to step in to replace Thermal/Coal for the larger part. While Wind can certainly be accelerated in it utilisation followed by Solar.
Tidal is still some way off as a practicable source of energy based on cost/benefit ratios.



Your ideas are good in principle. However the per/MW cost of generation by the Non-Conventional means is still too high as to be not commercially viable on the scale required for India's growing requirements. Hence Nuclear will have to step in to replace Thermal/Coal for the larger part. While Wind can certainly be accelerated in it utilisation followed by Solar.
Tidal is still some way off as a practicable source of energy based on cost/benefit ratios.

solar or wind energies demand only a one time investment..and it can be incurred in not less than a year or two..and as for the maintenance part its definitely going to be a lot easier and cheap compared to coal or even nuclear plants..yes we need to have nuclear power but there must be an effective mix of all these not just nuclear.also the unreliable hydro energy must be used as a bonus not as a main source completely dependent on it..efficiency of the solar panels must be improved through r n d..as i said earlier...things are happening but at a very slow pace..other countries may have trillion dollars of oil reserves but..we have unlimited insolation..thats a treasure which not many countries posess..

 

[illusion8]

^^^ Solar panels are very expensive and need constant changes, solar energy comes under expensive form of energy production.

 

[Matrixx]

Now we can make more Mushroom bomb

 

[rubyjackass]

Looks like India is spoiled for choice now. All of a sudden you have all these major Uranium exporting countries are making a beeline to woo India. Sab paise ka kamal hai bhai... paisa phenko aur tamasha dekho!!

It is not just about money. All other countries get offers like this. If India is anything like NK or Pak, nobody would have offered anything here.

 

[TruthSeeker]

The real problem for uranium suppliers is the environmental fear of (1) uranium mining tailings, (2) nuclear power plants and (3) spent nuclear fuel rods. Because of this fear, nuclear customers are abandoning nuclear energy in direct proportion to their having any quasi-green alternatives, like natural gas. So, ANY nation that is willing to actually expand nuclear energy is a hugely important customer to all of the existing nuclear fuel and system suppliers.

 

[anant_s]

The real problem for uranium suppliers is the environmental fear of (1) uranium mining tailings, (2) nuclear power plants and (3) spent nuclear fuel rods. Because of this fear, nuclear customers are abandoning nuclear energy in direct proportion to their having any quasi-green alternatives, like natural gas. So, ANY nation that is willing to actually expand nuclear energy is a hugely important customer to all of the existing nuclear fuel and system suppliers.

I read one of the interviews with Dr. Anil Kakodkar (ex AEC chairman), where when asked about huge difference between per capita energy consumption between US, Europe and India. He said that if every Indian person starts even half the power consumption of that in US, the energy sources will deplete in a very fast manner and not to mention the impact on environment, if most of the fuel was fossil.
He further added that it is in this context that developing countries with huge population like Indian sub-continent countries should start using more nuclear and no-conventional energy.
However given all advantages, Nuclear energy requires a good industrial base and qualified man-power to operate and maintain the plant. Non-conventional energy unfortunately has a very high capital cost and had it not been heavy subsidy by governments, in still out of reach for most.

Nuclear energy will definitely be no. 2 source of power till may 2060-2070, after which fossil fuels supplies will start to dwindle.
By that time i hope, Nuclear Fusion tokamaks would have been developed on commercial scale and would become perpetual source of heat and electricity.