http://www.barc.ernet.in/talks/fddir08.html
Enriched uranium fuel supplied by BARC for the Light Water Reactor programme at Kalpakkam has been performing quite satisfactorily and our facility in Mysore is ready to meet the demands of our current strategic programme. There has been remarkable success in improving the separating work of our centrifuges and I have the confidence that we will be in a position to enter the uranium enrichment activity in an industrial scale within a short time.
Great strides have been made in development of advanced gas centrifuges for uranium enrichment program. The latest fourth generation design, with output 10 times the early design, has been successfully developed and an experimental cascade is in operation at BARC. These would soon be ready for induction at RMP. Third generation design, with 5 times output of early designs, are presently being inducted at RMP.
An important milestone in development of carbon fibre composit tubes for high speed rotor system, has achieved a surface speed of 600 m/sec. These rotors have the potential to provide greatly enhanced centrifuge output. These rotor systems are presently undergoing various trials.
Analysis:
Our enrichment program expansion in 2010 to a facility possibly uses this carbon fiber composite tubes with enrichment of 40SWU/year. Earlier ones were at 4 SWU/year upto 2008.In 2008 we were adding 20 SWU/Year centrifuges .
The new facility has a larger dimension of 210 x 150. The old facility was 130 x 130. This new facility will house carbon fiber composite 40 SWU/year units. (600 m/sec.) Urenco 600 m/sec is the fifth generation which enriches at 40 SWU/year. There are urenco units with 620 m/sec which produce 42 SWU/year. Seems like we are very close to the best centrifuge designs.
http://isis-online.org/publications/sout...pacity.pdf
The last paper on Indian enrichment places the future expansion in 2006 at 20000 SWU/yr to 30000 SWU/yr. Assuming this expansion covered the period upto 2008. In 2008 we added unknown quantity of 20 SWU/year centrifuges. Assuming this is 3000 as most other expansions where in phases of 3000. The 2008 expansion gave us 60000 SWU/year.
We then expanded in 2010 to these carbon fiber composites. So when the facility comes up. It's double the earlier facility. Our enrichment when it comes up only from RMP plant will be between 200,000SWU/year 500,000 SWU/year. This really is something. We have a chitradurga enrichment facility which will be additional to this. So our enrichment program is really on it's way to Industrial scale.
http://www.thehindu.com/news/internation...epage=true
We had 3000 centrifuges in 2006. Which were 2nd generation. In 2008 we added unknown quantity of 20 SWU/Year centrifuges. In 2010 we were building a facility of 210 x 150 possibly housing 40 SWU/year carbon fiber composite centrifuge. Which is essentially double the earlier program plus double the earlier output. So our uranium enrichment for submarines and other uses from only this plant are at 4 times the level in 2006 at a minimum.
No wonder we are going to use the new Chitradurga facility for civil use. Even though it's not under safeguards. It will be 600 rev/sec or 620 rev/sec and equivalent to the latest Urenco designs.
Our reprocessing on industrial scale is the problem.
Enriched uranium fuel supplied by BARC for the Light Water Reactor programme at Kalpakkam has been performing quite satisfactorily and our facility in Mysore is ready to meet the demands of our current strategic programme. There has been remarkable success in improving the separating work of our centrifuges and I have the confidence that we will be in a position to enter the uranium enrichment activity in an industrial scale within a short time.
Great strides have been made in development of advanced gas centrifuges for uranium enrichment program. The latest fourth generation design, with output 10 times the early design, has been successfully developed and an experimental cascade is in operation at BARC. These would soon be ready for induction at RMP. Third generation design, with 5 times output of early designs, are presently being inducted at RMP.
An important milestone in development of carbon fibre composit tubes for high speed rotor system, has achieved a surface speed of 600 m/sec. These rotors have the potential to provide greatly enhanced centrifuge output. These rotor systems are presently undergoing various trials.
Analysis:
Our enrichment program expansion in 2010 to a facility possibly uses this carbon fiber composite tubes with enrichment of 40SWU/year. Earlier ones were at 4 SWU/year upto 2008.In 2008 we were adding 20 SWU/Year centrifuges .
The new facility has a larger dimension of 210 x 150. The old facility was 130 x 130. This new facility will house carbon fiber composite 40 SWU/year units. (600 m/sec.) Urenco 600 m/sec is the fifth generation which enriches at 40 SWU/year. There are urenco units with 620 m/sec which produce 42 SWU/year. Seems like we are very close to the best centrifuge designs.
http://isis-online.org/publications/sout...pacity.pdf
The last paper on Indian enrichment places the future expansion in 2006 at 20000 SWU/yr to 30000 SWU/yr. Assuming this expansion covered the period upto 2008. In 2008 we added unknown quantity of 20 SWU/year centrifuges. Assuming this is 3000 as most other expansions where in phases of 3000. The 2008 expansion gave us 60000 SWU/year.
We then expanded in 2010 to these carbon fiber composites. So when the facility comes up. It's double the earlier facility. Our enrichment when it comes up only from RMP plant will be between 200,000SWU/year 500,000 SWU/year. This really is something. We have a chitradurga enrichment facility which will be additional to this. So our enrichment program is really on it's way to Industrial scale.
http://www.thehindu.com/news/internation...epage=true
We had 3000 centrifuges in 2006. Which were 2nd generation. In 2008 we added unknown quantity of 20 SWU/Year centrifuges. In 2010 we were building a facility of 210 x 150 possibly housing 40 SWU/year carbon fiber composite centrifuge. Which is essentially double the earlier program plus double the earlier output. So our uranium enrichment for submarines and other uses from only this plant are at 4 times the level in 2006 at a minimum.
No wonder we are going to use the new Chitradurga facility for civil use. Even though it's not under safeguards. It will be 600 rev/sec or 620 rev/sec and equivalent to the latest Urenco designs.
Our reprocessing on industrial scale is the problem.