India- the land of golden birds unfortunately got the nuclear chickens a little late.But as always this land has been producing great human beings with impeccable personalities. One such man Dr Homi Jehangir Bhabha came into the lap of mother India. His wisdom one day took this country to a position which an ordinary man could not have envisioned. He was the pioneer of the Indian Nuclear Program and deviced a great master plan for our country, foreseeing the hunger of power this country would experience in its growing years.
Then came to being the Three stage Indian Nuclear Power Program which took into consideration the vast Thorium (I write about it later) reserves which our country has. India's first Nuclear reactor was a test reactor named APSARA. It was named by another visionary Indian leader Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the then Prime Minister of Bharat.
Dr Homi Bhabha said, 'No power is costlier than No power' ,we'll take a while to even understand this line at first.
Then came into being another test reactor CIRUS (Canada India Reactor US).Canadians built a Pressurised Heavy Water Reactor in Kota Rajasthan and US (General Electric) gave India its first commercial nuclear reactor a Boiling Water Reactor (set up in Tarapur, Maharashtra, the birth place of Dr Homi Bhabha.)
This was the inception of Nuclear power in the country and suddenly it all blew apart with India's Missile test in Pokhran, Rajasthan in 1974.The world placed an embargo on India and canadians quit the construction of second of the twin units in Rajasthan.The nuclear world isolated India and refused any technical help or guidance. The Scientists had hardly learnt the fundamentals from their foriegn counterparts.But again necessity gave birth to inventions and reverse engineering. Slowly and steadily our scientists learnt the intricacies and today we have 20 commercial Nuclear Reactors operating at nearly full steam. Indians have mastered the design and operation of Pressurised Heavy Water Reactors.And we are ready to move into the phase where Nuclear sources will contribute in a larger proportion in the country's electricity share.
Hence proved: Step by step one goes far.
Then came to being the Three stage Indian Nuclear Power Program which took into consideration the vast Thorium (I write about it later) reserves which our country has. India's first Nuclear reactor was a test reactor named APSARA. It was named by another visionary Indian leader Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the then Prime Minister of Bharat.
Dr Homi Bhabha said, 'No power is costlier than No power' ,we'll take a while to even understand this line at first.
Then came into being another test reactor CIRUS (Canada India Reactor US).Canadians built a Pressurised Heavy Water Reactor in Kota Rajasthan and US (General Electric) gave India its first commercial nuclear reactor a Boiling Water Reactor (set up in Tarapur, Maharashtra, the birth place of Dr Homi Bhabha.)
This was the inception of Nuclear power in the country and suddenly it all blew apart with India's Missile test in Pokhran, Rajasthan in 1974.The world placed an embargo on India and canadians quit the construction of second of the twin units in Rajasthan.The nuclear world isolated India and refused any technical help or guidance. The Scientists had hardly learnt the fundamentals from their foriegn counterparts.But again necessity gave birth to inventions and reverse engineering. Slowly and steadily our scientists learnt the intricacies and today we have 20 commercial Nuclear Reactors operating at nearly full steam. Indians have mastered the design and operation of Pressurised Heavy Water Reactors.And we are ready to move into the phase where Nuclear sources will contribute in a larger proportion in the country's electricity share.
Hence proved: Step by step one goes far.
