Nuclear Power For France & Japan Bombs For India -- Ravinder Singh [The first Magnox power station, Calder Hall, was the world's first commercial nuclear power station. First connection to the grid was on 27 August 1956, and the plant was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 17 October 1956. When the station closed on 31 March 2003, the first reactor had been in use for nearly 47 years. --- In all, 11 power stations totalling 26 units were built in the UK where the design originated.]
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Following actually means France produces enough electricity to serve its electricity needs; 540 € ¦’¶ 100 = 440 TWh. Last year France produced 25 times more nuclear electricity than India.
USA produces 7.5 Billion Units per reactor compared to less than 1 BU per reactor and 50 times more electricity than India. Reactors designed by AREVA & Mitsubishi of 1500 MWe will produce 12 BU of electricity annually. So cost shall be much less in future. Even Bulgaria produces 9 BU per reactor has two reactor but produces more electricity than India from 17 reactors.
[In 2004, 425.8 TWh out of the country's total production of 540.6 TWh was from nuclear. France is the world's largest net exporter of energy, exporting 18% of total production (about 100 TWh) to Italy, Britain, and Germany, and its electricity cost is among the lowest in Europe.]
[Areva NC claims that, due to their reliance on nuclear power, France's carbon emmissions per kWh are less than 1/10 that of Germany and the UK, and 1/13 that of Denmark which has no nuclear plants. Its emissions of nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide have been reduced by 70% over 20 years, even though the total power output has tripled in that time.]
Going in to the details, I believe Japan opted for Magnox design for it can be used for making both Plutonium and generate power but India opted for CANDU design which uses natural uranium were very costly than enriched uranium based PWR.
Japan got both plutonium and power in abundance- based on imported reactors and uranium. India was interested in cheap thrills of exploding bombs.
India was at par with Japan and France in Nuclear Power development in 1970 and in fact I found Japan bought GEC UK reactors of Magnox design that emitted high amount of radiation and didn€ ¦’²t have containment, two of the Magnox reactors are still in operation in spite of high radiation, That is precisely the reason of UK to go against Nuclear Power but since oil prices have again crossed $83 per barrel mark, UK too is reviewing Nuclear Program.
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At a seminar yesterday Lord Swaraj Paul told the delegates only 7% of Indians go for graduation compared to 52% in UK.
As per another study here only 2% Indians have science & technical. And very fewer really understand technology. You have to ask yourself only one question; whether a country who has tones of nuclear fuel in its reactors and operate and manage large Nuclear Power plants can develop N-bomb when required?
It was always preferred to have Nuclear power capability of 50,000 MW than telling the world we have 50 nuclear bombs.
[The first nuclear reactor in Japan was built by GEC (British Company). In the 1970s the first Light Water Nuclear Plants were built in cooperation with American companies. These plants were bought from US Vendors such as General Electric or Westinghouse with contractual work done by Japanese companies, who would later get a license themselves to build similar plant designs. Developments in nuclear power since that time has seen contributions from Japanese companies and research institutes on the same level as the other big users of nuclear power.]
Japan from the very beiginning developing Nuclear Technology and is collaborating to build third generation reactors.
Ravinder Singh October03, 2007 Progressindia2008@
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But we also must remember that we have neighbors like China & Pakistan, one with a huge military power including atomic bombs and another a country which breeds global terrorism. Whether we like it or not, or accept it or not, that is a reality.
If, we did not have the nuclear bombs, we would have been under tremendous pressure from both these countries...
We need both bombs and power... Power without security of our lives will not be acceptable to most of us,
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