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  • World's 'safest' nuclear reactor in India

    08/25/2005 4:11:34 AM PDT · by CarrotAndStick · 142 replies · 2,599+ views
    The Press Trust of India ^ | THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 2005 03:45:33 PM | The Press Trust of India
    NEW DELHI: India unveiled before the international community on Thursday, its revolutionary design of a 'Thorium breeder reactor' that can produce 600 MW of electricity for two years 'with no refuelling and practically no control manoeuvres.' Designed by scientists of the Mumbai-based Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, the ATBR is claimed to be far more economical and safer than any power reactor in the world. Most significantly for India, ATBR does not require natural or enriched uranium which the country is finding difficult to import. It uses thorium -- which India has in plenty -- and only requires plutonium as 'seed'...