India Environment Portal | News, reports, documents, blogs, data, analysis on environment & development | India, South Asia
Published on India Environment Portal | News, reports, documents, blogs, data, analysis on environment & development | India, South Asia (http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in)

Home > News > India designs new atomic reactor for thorium utilisation > India designs new atomic reactor for thorium utilisation

India designs new atomic reactor for thorium utilisation [1]

Mumbai: India today announced it has designed a new version of Advanced Heavy Water atomic reactor which will use lesser low enriched uranium along with thorium as fuel and having next generation safety requirements.

Publication Date: 
17/09/2009
Daily News Analysis (Mumbai) [2]
Tags:
Thorium [3], Uranium [4], Nuclear Power [5], Fast Breeder Test Reactor (FTR) [6], Mumbai [7], International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) [8]
Centre for Science and Environment
National Knowledge Commission Government of India

Technology Partners: MimirTech


India Environment Portal by Centre for Science and Environment is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 India License.


Source URL: http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/india-designs-new-atomic-reactor-thorium-utilisation-0

Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/india-designs-new-atomic-reactor-thorium-utilisation-0
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/daily-news-analysis-mumbai
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/thorium
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/uranium
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/nuclear-power
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/fast-breeder-test-reactor-ftr
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/mumbai
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/international-atomic-energy-agency-iaea