050127 インドの高速増殖炉開発とトリウム利用計画

インドの高速増殖炉開発計画に関するインド原子力委員会のKakodkar委員長の
最近の談話をご紹介します。当面は商業発電用のPWR路線を拡充する一方で、
新型重水炉（AHWR)技術を完成させ、それをさらに高速増殖炉からトリウム炉に
発展させて行くのがインドの基本戦略であり、この目的て、すでに500MWの高速
増殖炉を建設中である、としております。ご参考まで。
--KK

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India designs nuclear reactor to generate energy from Thorium
   New Kerala, January 21, 2005
   (http://www.newkerala.com/printpage.php)

[India News]: Bangalore, Jan 20 : India has designed an advanced heavy water
reactor aimed at generating energy from thorium, Chairman of Atomic Energy
Commission Anil Kakodkar said today.

"That (the reactor) is a technology demonstrator essentially aimed at
getting energy from thorium, and we have finished the design, and it's being
done
at BARC (Babha Atomic Research Centre)," he said here.

"Design is over and the peer reviews are over. Safety reviews are currently
going
on.. Then we will take decision about construction," Kakodkar told reporters
here after a function at Avasarala Automation Ltd.

He said a vast energy potential of India's thorium reserves needs to be
tapped not only as source for electricity production but also as a
primary energy source. But the Secretary in the Department of Atomic Energy
stressed that it should be done in a sequence.

"We are going through the three-stage nuclear power programme.  In the first
stage we are in the commercial domain which is the construction of
pressurised
heavy water reactors, he said.

Kakodkar said the next stage is fast breeder reactors which would enhance
the
power potential with available uranium.  "We have already launched
construction
of a 500 mw unit." "When we build up sufficient number of fast breeder
reactors, that would be the appropriate time to switch on thorium systems on
a
large scale..Because the quantity of thorium that we have in this country is
very large." "What we are doing now is technology development. Advanced
Heavy
Water reactor is one step in that technology development," he added.   PTI

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