India designs World's first Thorium based Nuclear Reactor
It is also said to be the most secured and safest reactor, which in
future, could be set up in populated cities, like - Mumbai or Delhi,
"within the city".
The latest AHWR design incorporates several passive safety features.
These include: Core heat removal through natural circulation; direct
injection of emergency core coolant system (ECCS) water in fuel; and the
availability of a large inventory of borated water in overhead
gravity-driven water pool (GDWP) to facilitate sustenance of core decay
heat removal. The emergency core cooling system (ECCS) injection and
containment cooling can act (SCRAM) without invoking any active systems
or operator action.
The reactor also incorporates advanced technologies, together with
several proven positive features of Indian pressurised heavy water
reactors (PHWRs). These features include pressure tube type design, low
pressure moderator, on-power refueling, diverse fast acting shut-down
systems, and availability of a large low temperature heat sink around
the reactor core.
The construction on the first AHWR is
scheduled to start in 2016 - though no site has yet been announced.
Sources says, "nothing has decided, it could be Tarapur in Mumbai or
some other location in India".
Source:- Design of World's first Thorium based nuclear reactor is ready : North, News - India Today
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