Operation Thorium Reactor in 2020 ? Where did you get this piece of information? In India, AHWR will be the first reactor which will utilize Thorium as fuel. For your information, it is still in design phase. It takes around 8-9 years for a project to go from design stage to AERB approval then pre-commissioning to post commissioning,then first criticality, to fully operational reactor. As you know VVER Unit I is still struggling to achieve sustained 100% full power operation till now. If you are talking about Fast breeder reactor, it will use Natural uranium as blanket not Thorium !
Fusion reactor will become reality much before 2050 ! In fact, India is planning to have its own fusion reactor based on the experience gained in ITER project.
Nuclear physics is not my area of study so I am not an expert on subject neither I claimed We will get operational Th before 2020, I said we may get.
I don't know such names of reactors, I just collected information from net & know only one stage, two stage & three stage reactor.
I just got information on net in 2013 or 14 that India will get operational three stage reactor in 2016 so I said we may get by 2020 not said we will get.
That too as we aren't getting updates on project, last update was from a person in last quarter of 2015 who claimed that in 2016 first three stage reactor will be operational & I stretched deadline to 2020 with adding a word "may/can".
That's all sir.
Thank you.
@Indx TechStyle Good going! The research in this type of reactor will also help to design components(like superconducting magnets) for an fusion reactor research.
But this program should not be allowed to shut down AHWR program.
I think we already have spent a huge amount of money, may be more than ₹10,000 crore since independence on Th reactor program, we can't shut that program now.
@piKacHHu I read about ITER & that is for 500MW with $03B investment that why fusion reactor may not be available before 2050,
Rebecca Harms, Green/EFA member of the
European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, said: "In the next 50 years, nuclear fusion will neither tackle climate change nor guarantee the security of our energy supply." Arguing that the EU's energy research should be focused elsewhere, she said: "The Green/EFA group demands that these funds be spent instead on energy research that is relevant to the future. A major focus should now be put on renewable sources of energy." French Green party lawmaker
Noël Mamère claims that more concrete efforts to fight present-day global warming will be neglected as a result of ITER: "This is not good news for the fight against the greenhouse effect because we're going to put ten billion euros towards a project that has a term of 30–50 years when we're not even sure it will be effective.