India Accessing Uranium Directly From South Africa

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In Our Interest to Access Uranium Directly From SA: India

Energy-hungry India is working out mechanisms with South Africa to access its uranium which is available in sufficient quantity in this country.

Stating this while briefing on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's bilateral meeting with South African President Jacob Zuma, Indian High Commissioner to South Africa Virender Gupta said here today that it was not a difficult proposition.

"We are already beginning to consider how to go about it (accessing uranium from South Africa). In the long term, it will be in our interest to access uranium directly from South Africa," he said.

He maintained that he did not see any difficulty in this regard given the fact that India had signed civil nuclear agreement and had got a waiver from the Nuclear Suppliers Group of which South Africa is a member.

Giving details of the growing India-South Africa relations, the envoy said bilateral trade has been growing at an unexpected rate, surpassing targets set.

Last year, when Zuma visited India, the two countries had set a trade target of USD 10 billion to be achieved by 2012. However, by March this year, the trade has already crossed USD 11 billion mark.

South Africa is now one of the largest coal suppliers to India.


Singh also had a separate bilateral meeting with Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on the sidelines of the IBSA Summit.

The two leaders discussed ways to enhance cooperation in various specific areas, said M Ganapathy, Secretary (West) in the External Affairs Ministry.

The Prime Minister also extended invitations to the Presidents of South Africa and Brazil to attend the Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa (BRICS) Summit to be held in New Delhi next year, Ganapathy said.
FILED ON: OCT 18, 2011


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[Omega007]

GREAT news!!Hope Ausis will also agree to supply us in future.

 

[JohnyD]

It seems we are just securing the supply...but what about the demand?? are we creating enough demand by building new nuclear power plants?? I dont see Jaitapur will see day of a light in coming years....what else we have in pipeline?

I think we are making a lot of noise about nuclear deals with coutries across the globe...if I ve to name them...then read...US, France, Japan, Asssi, kazakhstan,uzbekistan,nigeria, Russia...

And top of that, we claimed to have found worlds latest uranium reserve in Andhra...
Largest uranium reserves found in India

Srikumar Banerjee, head of the Atomic Energy Commission, said a four-year long survey had indicated that the Tumalapalli mine near the state capital Hyderabad, which is scheduled to begin operating by late 2011, could provide up to 150,000 tons of uranium.

"It's confirmed that the mine has 49,000 tons and there are indications that the total quantity could be three times that amount" Mr Banerjee said on a visit to a nuclear plant in the western state of Rajasthan on Monday.

If that is the case, it will become the largest uranium mine in the world, he added.

But Department of Atomic Energy officials warned that the mineral, which is refined into nuclear fuel to produce energy and power, is not "high but low-grade uranium".

India has eagerly been seeking new uranium supplies worldwide to fuel its atomic plants for desperately-needed power to sustain high economic growth.

Over the past three years it has concluded supply deals with France, Kazakhstan and Russia after securing a special exemption in 2008 from the 46-member Nuclear Suppliers Group that governs global nuclear trade to conduct civil nuclear commerce.

The special waiver permits India to procure atomic reactors and fuel from overseas in return for international inspections of 14 of its 22 atomic reactors without signing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the NPT.

The remaining eight military reactors and associated facilities would not be subject to International Atomic Energy Agency examination.

India's rapidly growing economy, which is heavily dependent on coal, remains desperately short of power, getting less than three per cent of its energy from nuclear plants.

It hopes to substantially increase this output to around 30 per cent by 2050 by erecting 30 atomic reactors and the domestic uranium find would not only boost its plans but also help reduce costs

Largest uranium reserves found in India - Telegraph

Uranium find in India could be world's largest


Reuters) - A huge deposit of uranium India has found in a southern state could turn out to be among the biggest reserves of the mineral in the world, reports said on Tuesday citing the head of the country's atomic energy department.

The Tumalappalli mine in Andhra Pradesh state has confirmed 49,000 tonnes of ore and there are indications that it could hold reserves totalling three times its current size, The Times of India quoted Srikumar Banerjee as saying.

"If that be the case, it will become the largest uranium mine in the world," Banerjee, secretary at the Department of Atomic Energy, said, adding production will start in six months.

The mine's proven reserve is enough to support a 8,000 mega watts nuclear power plant for 40 years, the report added.

India plans to expand its nuclear power generation capacity from 4.7 giga watts (GW) now to 7.3 GW by the end of March 2012 and 20 GW by 2020.

To make this possible, the country has signed a landmark nuclear power deal with the United States and opened up its estimated $150 billion nuclear power market to private reactor builders such as GE and Areva CEPFi.PA.

India, which has a total installed power generation capacity of 164 gigawatts (GW), aims to raise it to 187 GW by the end of March 2012. Even this target is modest, given a 12 percent peak-hour power shortfall that crimps the country's near 9 percent economic growth.

Uranium find in India could be world's largest-report | Reuters

 

[NALANDA]

as of now, we need Coal more than Uranium.......

 

[wind]

heard that availability of Thorium is high in India. Any progress in developing tech to use it?

 

[angeldemon_007]

This IBSA forum seems to be of no no use as these 3 nations have not much to talk about and they think we will again BRICS, we can talk then...

 

[dr.crazze]

http://www.rediff.com/news/slide-show/slide-show-1-why-indias-fast-breeder-programme-is-cutting-edge/20110613.htm

heard that availability of Thorium is high in India. Any progress in developing tech to use it?

heard about fast breeder reactor india is a pioneer in that feild using fuel rods to produce energy and more fuel rods

 

[JohnyD]

heard that availability of Thorium is high in India. Any progress in developing tech to use it?

It will take some more time...may be another ten to twenty years before it becomes commercially viable....but it is learned that...
India has about 660,000 tonnes of thorium reserve only in Kerala, that can fuel nuclear projects for an estimated 2,500 years

 

[wind]

It will take some more time...may be another ten to twenty years before it becomes commercially viable....but it is learned that...
India has about 660,000 tonnes of thorium reserve only in Kerala, that can fuel nuclear projects for an estimated 2,500 years

Acknowledged. I think recently they found a huge deposit of Uranium in south India near a river basin which would be handy but the problem is to extract it. The agitations in India ! no words to explain them. I feel it is easy to start an agitation and create trouble to most of development projects in India. I dont know why China and PAK is not concentration on that part when engaging India

 

[JohnyD]

I dont know why China and PAK is not concentration on that part when engaging India

didnt get it...can u elaborate?

 

[Radius]

............sorting uranium accessibility problem is tit-bit in comparison to sorting of politicalisation of Nuclear energy issue...as in TN...
Amma and others wants their pound of flesh (money)....

 

[wind]

didnt get it...can u elaborate?

They can sponsor civil agitations in India to trouble the country

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............sorting uranium accessibility problem is tit-bit in comparison to sorting of politicalisation of Nuclear energy issue...as in TN...
Amma and others wants their pound of flesh (money)....

Who is the person in your avathar? I like knowing people

 

[JohnyD]

They can sponsor civil agitations in India to trouble the country

OKAY..thanks for being clear...

just a question..why do u want to trouble india ?

 

[wind]

OKAY..thanks for being clear...

just a question..why do u want to trouble india ?

I dont.....but your neighbours does and I am suggesting the posibility that they can exploit it in their favour.

 

[JohnyD]

I dont.....but your neighbours does and I am suggesting the posibility that they can exploit it in their favour.

and ur articulation and vocab say...you belong to those/that neighbouring countries/try?? ...com'on dont be ashamed of what you are....;-)