Tuesday, 23 October 2012

India's nuclear power may be insufficient to meet demand

India’s Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) has always though promised but never delivered. In the 1970s, DAE projected that by FY 2000 there would be 43 GW of installed nuclear capacity. In FY 2000, the nuclear power's installed capacity was actually 2.7 GW. On March, 2012, nuclear power constitutes hardly 2% of the total electricity generation capacity.
This is going to be like this because India is pursuing an unreliable technology in Fast breeder reactors (FBRs). The DAE’s plans involve

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