India Will Be Leader In Nuke Energy: C.N.R. Rao

Bangalore: India will become a leader in nuclear energy with new technology which is being used for the first time to build a fast breeder reactor to generate 500MW at Kalpakkam near Chennai, a top scientist said.
"We are building a fast breeder reactor, the first of its kind to generate 500MW through a process which is different from the usual nuclear reactor," Prime Minister's scientific advisory council chairman C.N.R. Rao told IANS here.
Rao, who was named Saturday for the country's highest civil award, the Bharat Ratna, for his outstanding contribution in science, said if the new technology succeeded, the reactor would be commissioned by April 2014 at the Kalpakkam atomic power plant, about 80km from Chennai in Tamil Nadu.
"If this succeeds, we will become a leader in nuclear energy with completely new technology, which we have mastered," Rao said.
Claiming that Indian scientists had performed well despite marginal investment in science infrastructure, Rao said the scientific community had done much more than the money it was given over the decades.
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