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India's nuclear fuel cycle unraveling the impact of the U.S.-India Nuclear Accord /

An analysis of the current (February 2009) status and future potential of India's nuclear fuel cycle is presented in this book. Such a fuel cycle assessment is important, but relatively opaque because India regards various aspects of its nuclear fuel cycle as strategically sensitive. Any study...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Woddi, Taraknath V. K.
Other Authors: Charlton, William S., Nelson, Paul.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: San Rafael, Calif. (1537 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, c2009.
Series:Synthesis lectures on nuclear technology and society (Online) ; # 1.
Subjects:
Nuclear energy > India.
Nuclear nonproliferation.
Nuclear energy > International cooperation.
Online Access:Abstract with links to full text
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • Motivation for this study
  • Objectives of the study
  • 2. A brief history of the Indian nuclear program
  • The inception phase of the program, 1944-1960
  • Early weapons development efforts, 1960-1966
  • Negotiations and aftermath of the non-proliferation treaty, 1966-1974
  • India's isolation following Operation Smiling Buddha, 1975-1998
  • Pokhran-II tests in 1998
  • Following the Pokhran II tests, 1999-2006
  • Current state of the Indian nuclear program
  • 3. Indian nuclear facilities
  • Power reactors
  • Research and plutonium production reactors
  • Uranium enrichment facilities
  • Heavy water production facilities
  • Fuel fabrication facilities
  • Reprocessing facilities
  • Uranium mining, milling, and conversion facilities
  • 4. Fuel cycle analysis: from beginning to present day
  • Assessment of natural uranium production
  • Assessment of power production and uranium consumed
  • Assessment of enriched uranium production
  • Theory of enrichment calculations
  • The nuclear submarine program
  • Assessment of plutonium production and use, 1947-1974
  • Assessment of plutonium production and use, 1947-1998
  • Assessment of plutonium production and use, 1947-2006.
  • 5. Fuel cycle analysis: future projections
  • 5.1. Presuming NO agreeable U.S.-India nuclear cooperation
  • Future of existing nuclear power program
  • Future of fast breeder program
  • Effect on weapons program
  • 5.2. Projections under adopted U.S.-India nuclear accord
  • Future of nuclear power program
  • Future of fast breeder program
  • Future of weapons program
  • 6. Alternate reactor systems for the proposed nuclear fuel cycle
  • Thermal breeder reactor design concept
  • The theory of breeder reactors
  • Reactor physics simulations
  • The SCALE code system
  • Simulation details and design iterations
  • Results from simulations
  • Optimized design
  • Implementation of alternate reactor system in India's nuclear fuel cycle
  • Description of alternate future fuel cycle
  • Metrics of interest
  • Comparisons to existing Indian fuel cycle
  • 7. Conclusions
  • 8. Acknowledgements
  • Biography.

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