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2007-09-18 India-Pakistan

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Posted by 3dc 2007-09-18 01:59|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Think "country made shutter gun". I hope we are willing to pass along operational safety guidelines. Brrr...

Posted by N Guard 2007-09-18 05:28|| 2007-09-18 05:28|| Front Page Top

#2 Think "they have their own geostationary satellite launcher."

Now I don't like the design very much, but they were able to get it to work.

Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2007-09-18 10:23|| 2007-09-18 10:23|| Front Page Top

#3 Just how useful would a sub reactor be as a basis for a comercial nuclear power reactor. IMO one of the big mistakes this country made in the civilian nuclear field was the use of non standard reator designs. Even the Phrench were smart enough to do that. In the future India will need more generating capacity. Are they looking at nuclear? Enquiring minds want to know.

Posted by Cheaderhead 2007-09-18 14:03|| 2007-09-18 14:03|| Front Page Top

#4 Actually India has been designing reactors for decades.

The very first nuclear reactor in all of Asia was Apsara in Bombay.

This is the design for the Advanced Heavy Water Reactor (AHWR)
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This is the Fast Breeder Test Reactor (FBTR)

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This is Kamini - the world's only U233 based reactor

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Posted by john frum 2007-09-18 14:49|| 2007-09-18 14:49|| Front Page Top

#5 India's 500MW Heavy Water Reactors...

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Posted by john frum 2007-09-18 14:56|| 2007-09-18 14:56|| Front Page Top

#6 Reborn reactor

THE 23-year-old first unit of the Madras Atomic Power Station (MAPS-1) at Kalpakkam, near Chennai, has virtually had a rebirth. Its lifespan has been extended by another 30 years

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According to S. Krishnamurthy, Station Director, MAPS, the engineering feat involved four major jobs. They were: en masse coolant channel replacement (EMCCR), which involved cutting and replacing 306 coolant channels, each 80 mm wide and six metres long; replacement of eight steam generators and 88 heat exchangers; replacement of all 606 feeder pipes; and installation of sparger channels in the calandria or reactor vessel, which forms the heart of the reactor.

Work on the reactor began in October 2004 and went on for 14 months and was smooth and incident-free. On January 4, MAPS-1 attained re-criticality and it was connected to the southern grid on January 18.

"In this campaign, the main components in the heart of the reactor, which is the primary coolant system consisting of coolant channels, feeders, steam generators and spargers, have been changed. All life-limiting components of the primary systems have been replaced. Hence it is a rebirth for the reactor, which can go on for an extended period of 30 years. The reactor will be younger and stronger," said Krishnamurthy.

Posted by john frum 2007-09-18 15:01|| 2007-09-18 15:01|| Front Page Top

The Calandria channels of the TAPS-3, reactor, which takes the fuel bundles.

Posted by john frum 2007-09-18 15:10|| 2007-09-18 15:10|| Front Page Top

#8 Don't ever bet against Hindu engineering geeks. Those guys are good.

Posted by Mike 2007-09-18 15:28|| 2007-09-18 15:28|| Front Page Top

#9 The Large Hadron Collider, which is now under construction in CERN's 27 km ring tunnel, attracts significant contributions from several major nations outside the CERN member state community, making it truly a world machine.

The main Indian hardware contribution is superconducting sextupole and decapole spool pieces amounting to half of the total LHC requirement for such corrector magnet equipment. In addition, India will supply LHC magnet support jacks and quench heater power supplies.

India also manufactured the microprocessors for the experiments at LHC. Called MANAS, the chips will read muon trajectories and their detection rate as they come out of the ionisation chamber during an experiment related to the quark-gluon plasma.

Posted by john frum 2007-09-18 15:40|| 2007-09-18 15:40|| Front Page Top

#10 They build their own particle accelerators too...

The Superconducting Cyclotron at India's Department of Atomic Energy's Cyclotron Center

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Posted by john frum 2007-09-18 15:45|| 2007-09-18 15:45|| Front Page Top

#11 Errors in that report

India is installing their reactor in a 5,000 ton Charlie II submarine that was purchased from Russia. This boat will be ready for sea trails next year. Eventually, India wants to build its own nuclear subs.

India is reportedly leasing an Akula class SSN from Russia.

The Indian nuclear submarine is called the ATV. This is being built at Vizag in India. According to reports, it will be launched for sea trials in 2008.

Posted by john frum 2007-09-18 17:52|| 2007-09-18 17:52|| Front Page Top

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