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India's nuclear fuel cycle

unraveling the impact of the U.S.-India Nuclear Accord

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An edition of India's nuclear fuel cycle (2009)

India's nuclear fuel cycle

unraveling the impact of the U.S.-India Nuclear Accord

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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 therefore necessarily depends upon reverse calculations based on the information that is available, expert assessments, engineering judgment and anecdotal information. In this work every effort is made to provide transparency to these foundations, so that changes can be made in light of alternative expectations or subsequent information. This book should be of interest to policy experts, governmental specialists, technologists, nuclear technologists, and others seeking to understand and explain the associated facts and potential consequences of the recent U.S.-India civil nuclear accord.

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

Edition Notes

Part of: Synthesis digital library of engineering and computer science.

Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on September 9, 2009).

Series from website.

Includes bibliographical references.

Abstract freely available; full-text restricted to subscribers or individual document purchasers.

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Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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San Rafael, Calif. (1537 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA)
Series
Synthesis lectures on nuclear technology and society -- # 1
Other Titles
Synthesis digital library of engineering and computer science.

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Dewey Decimal Class
333.79240954
Library of Congress
TK9103 .W635 2009, TK9360 .W63 2009

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Open Library
OL25550526M
Internet Archive
indiasnuclearfue00nels
ISBN 13
9781598299854, 9781598299847
OCLC/WorldCat
308170365

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