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Monday, September 10, 2007

India builds light water reactor for submarines: scientist

India is building a light water reactor (LWR) for submarines, the Press Trust of India (PTI) Saturday quoted one of the South Asian nation's top nuclear scientists as saying.

"Indian scientists and technologists are capable of making light water reactors and we are already constructing an LWR at Kalpakkam in south India for submarine," said P K Iyengar, former chairman of India's Atomic Energy Commission.

He was speaking in a public debate in Mumbai on New Delhi's nuclear deal with the United States, PTI reported

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  1. The US Navy is going to fusion power:

    Bussard Fusion Reactor
    Easy Low Cost No Radiation Fusion

    It has been funded:

    Bussard Reactor Funded

    I have inside info that is very reliable and multiply confirmed that validates the above story. I am not at liberty to say more. Expect a public announcement from the Navy in the coming weeks.

    The above reactor can burn Deuterium which is very abundant and produces lots of neutrons or it can burn a mixture of Hydrogen and Boron 11 which does not

    The implication of it is that we will know in 6 to 9 months if the small reactors of that design are feasible.

    If they are we could have fusion plants generating electricity in 10 years or less depending on how much we want to spend to compress the time frame.

    BTW Bussard is not the only thing going on in IEC. There are a few government programs at the University of Wisconsin and at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana among others.

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