India's first indigenously developed 500 MW Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) commissioned

[narcon]

Where I am wrong? I know its not generating power as of now but it was first PBFBR.

Was it 500 MW?
No!
So your claim was discrepant against the main post..
India is numero uno on this...
Take it to the bank..
Put it in a safe deposit..

 

[Kloitra]

Was it 500 MW?
No!
So your claim was discrepant against the main post..
India is numero uno on this...
Take it to the bank..
Put it in a safe deposit..

It was more than 500 MW. 1242x2 MW. So it would take precisely 500MW and not more to discredit the OP?
The plant operated 2 decades ago and generated far more electricity than India's PFBR.

 

[dilpakistani]

well fast breeding reactors are simpler than heavy water reactors as they don't have to slow down neutrons to thermal energy level.... Even though significant achievement but it is way too risky as it creates too much high level radioactive waste... that is why Americans abandoned these reactors for commercial use.

 

[IND151]

Was it 500 MW?
No!
So your claim was discrepant against the main post..
India is numero uno on this...
Take it to the bank..
Put it in a safe deposit..

But it was first PBFBR in world. So I am right.

 

[Chanakya's_Chant]

well fast breeding reactors are simpler than heavy water reactors as they don't have to slow down neutrons to thermal energy level.... Even though significant achievement but it is way too risky as it creates too much high level radioactive waste... that is why Americans abandoned these reactors for commercial use.

India has a different story altogether! As I said India has a fourth of all the Thorium discovered on this planet, so it is wise to use it gainfully. Problem is, Thorium is useless as a fuel, until it is converted into Uranium-233, for which you need fast breeder reactors.

Then why didn’t India start building fast breeders right from the beginning? Because it is not possible.

The fast breeders need a lot of Uranium, or Plutonium. Uranium, India does not have much of, and no other country would give us after 1974, when Pokhran-I happened. Plutonium does not occur in nature, it has to be produced in a nuclear reactor.

So, the country had to wait for four decades to have sufficient stock of Plutonium to fire up the fast breeders. And now, it is happening.

Our leadership in Thorium research is well appreciated by world - "This would be the best in the world facility to obtain benchmark data for Thorium based reactors " - Mr Harold Mcfarlen Former president American Nuclear association .

 

[samy1618]

India has a different story altogether! As I said India has a fourth of all the Thorium discovered on this planet, so it is wise to use it gainfully. Problem is, Thorium is useless as a fuel, until it is converted into Uranium-233, for which you need fast breeder reactors.

Then why didn’t India start building fast breeders right from the beginning? Because it is not possible.

The fast breeders need a lot of Uranium, or Plutonium. Uranium, India does not have much of, and no other country would give us after 1974, when Pokhran-I happened. Plutonium does not occur in nature, it has to be produced in a nuclear reactor.

So, the country had to wait for four decades to have sufficient stock of Plutonium to fire up the fast breeders. And now, it is happening.

Our leadership in Thorium research is well appreciated by world - "This would be the best in the world facility to obtain benchmark data for Thorium based reactors " - Mr Harold Mcfarlen Former president American Nuclear association .

This the nut shell of all that we have read...so plz read it again if others still don't understand

 

[Reviewer21]

India’s PFBR, is the World's only active/operational plutonium-based fast breeder reactor and second in the world to be constructed as well.

Is it because we are lagging behind in technology or because we are ahead of the world in this??

 

[Chanakya's_Chant]

Is it because we are lagging behind in technology or because we are ahead of the world in this??

Obviously way ahead yaar!

 

[Reviewer21]

Obviously way ahead yaar!

Oh then. It's awesome! I knew thorium but not about plutonium. Thanks anyways

 

[Chanakya's_Chant]

Oh then. It's awesome! I knew thorium but not about plutonium. Thanks anyways

We are the second nation after France to have developed such a fast breeder reactor and were the sixth nation after US, UK, France, Japan, Germany and Russia to have developed a fast breeder reactor in 1985!

 

[Reviewer21]

We are the second nation after France to have developed such a fast breeder reactor and were the sixth nation after US, UK, France, Japan, Germany and Russia to have developed a fast breeder reactor in 1985!

How come we are second when already US, UK, France, Japan etc have built it ?

 

[WishLivePak]

pls sell pakistan thnks

 

[Chanakya's_Chant]

How come we are second when already US, UK, France, Japan etc have built it ?

That is Plutonium based Fast Breeder Reactor - France built one - the second one and the only operational one in the world is in Kalpakkam - Not all fast breeder reactors are plutonium based! We were the sixth one to build fast breeder reactors (FBR) and the second one to build Plutonium based fast breeder reactor (PBFBR)! FBR's are usually based on Uranium.

pls sell pakistan thnks

Yes Yes the Plutonium we yield from these reactors is going to be there in our warheads placed on AGNI's and who knows Pakistan gets one any day! and that too free of cost! Duniya badi Zaalim hai!

 

[Reviewer21]

That is Plutonium based Fast Breeder Reactor - France built one - the second one and the only operational one in the world is in Kalpakkam - Not all fast breeder reactors are plutonium based! We were the sixth one to build fast breeder reactors (FBR) and the second one to build Plutonium based fast breeder reactor (PBFBR)! FBR's are usually based on Uranium.

Okay, now I got it

@Chanakya's_Chant what about the thorium reactor. Has it started producing energy?

 

[Chanakya's_Chant]

Okay, now I got it

@Chanakya's_Chant what about the thorium reactor. Has it started producing energy?

Yes indeed we had already built our first (world's first as well) thorium based experimental prototype nuclear reactor the KAKRAPAR-1 which did attain criticality and produced electricity but not for commercial purpose!

The construction work of the first 300 MW prototype AHWR (Advanced Heavy Water Reactor) is scheduled to start in 2016 and is expected to be completed by 2025 which will generate electricity commercially.