03-01-2010, 02:02 PM
[quote name='vasu_ray' date='28 February 2010 - 05:22 AM' timestamp='1267314241' post='104620']
India has a 3 stage fuel cycle program which although is Thorium driven can produce HEU by reprocessing and enrichment, this can be used in sub reactors I believe
even if they use diesel electric propulsion if they can launch SLBM's while patrolling in Indian ocean that's decent enough, and this way sub numbers can be increased
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For this kind of fuel to kick in our reactors first - the projected date is 2050 - so you are 4 decades away and Nations defenses wont wait for that long. If we can make our own indigenous Nuke submarines, we can surely make diesel electric with a bigger hull, but you know the disadvantage of such submarines which are pregnant with nuke warheads should not be a sitting duck (because it has to resurface time n again), hence P-5 countries dont choose this way, nuclear propulsion suits better.
India has a 3 stage fuel cycle program which although is Thorium driven can produce HEU by reprocessing and enrichment, this can be used in sub reactors I believe
even if they use diesel electric propulsion if they can launch SLBM's while patrolling in Indian ocean that's decent enough, and this way sub numbers can be increased
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For this kind of fuel to kick in our reactors first - the projected date is 2050 - so you are 4 decades away and Nations defenses wont wait for that long. If we can make our own indigenous Nuke submarines, we can surely make diesel electric with a bigger hull, but you know the disadvantage of such submarines which are pregnant with nuke warheads should not be a sitting duck (because it has to resurface time n again), hence P-5 countries dont choose this way, nuclear propulsion suits better.