New Delhi: India may be on the cusp of becoming a nuclear power in terms of production and export of nuclear energy. It is now looking at the preparations for developing a new kind of nuclear electricity generating establishment to enhance electricity generation around the country. Under this plan, the government has just announced three major decisions in the sector of nuclear energy, namely, involving private sector in construction of Small Modular Reactors (SMRs).
Today, nations such as Russia offer India their technology for installing Small Modular Nuclear Reactors. To give an added push to nuclear research the Indian government has further promised an investment of well over one trillion. The desire is to generate as much electricity as possible from nuclear power, which is a less destructive form of energy production.
Mobile and Sustainable Power Supply
Small Modular Reactors, SCMRS, often known as the floating nuclear power plants, are built in a portable way. They can also be easily transfer from one area to another, this is as easier as when transporting a ship. Actually Russia has floating power plant that generates electricity and brings light to homes, now India will design its own floating nuclear power plant with technology support from Russia.
These technologies in the form of floating nuclear power plants could turn out to be the proverbial game changer that Indian power sector needs particularly with soaring demand for electricity. Indeed, constructing these reactors is eighty times cheaper than real-scale reactors making the concept more viable.
: Floating nuclear power plants or FNP are the most significant features of the nuclear power industry.
The turbines in the floating nuclear power plant should be capable of running for a total of 24 hours.
It will add new and sustained energy to the growth process and at the same time drastically minimise India’s linkage with coal.
Floating nuclear plants are 90% cleaner than the reactors that rely on coal as a main power source.
Thermal power plant is said to need 90 percent of the space that wind power plant requires.
These plants and wind turbines use only a third the amount of water that may be required by conventional thermal power plants.
As per the report , the electricity demand in India is projected to rise to between 80 percent 150 percent by 2050. In this kind of situation, FNP might well be some highly developed and more or less dependable source of power supply. The remaining twenty two islands in India’s extreme South are Andaman and Nicobar Islands which depends on few thermal power stations employing diesel as source of electricity wherein 95% of electrical power in these Islands is produced in this manner. At the moment, there are 42 power stations and 81000 customers in the region.
It is expensive to supply fuel and equipment to such islands, not to mention in emergency and calamities that strike power distribution on the islands. In such areas the Floating Nuclear Power Plants may possibly be of immense utility. India is the second-largest consumer of coal for power generation in the world next only to China and these new nuclear initiatives may mark route for a green era.
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