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Plutonium is a heavy, radioactive, man-made, metallic element used in the production of nuclear energy.

Nuclear Energy is neither clean nor cheap * It’s the way to process Uranium/Plutonium to make Bombs * Anyway, Uranium for 50 years is available within India, as per Government - then why this hurry to ask others for Uranium ? …

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There are only two sources which have enough potential to bridge the energy gap – Coal with its associated logistic, carbon emission and other pollution problem or Nuclear Energy which is clean with minimum carbon emission and scalable …

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Now those who are against nuclear energy mainly put the following two points on table. Firstly, it is very costly costing about Rs 2.9-3.0 per unit as compared to other sources such as cola or hydro power which are produced at about Rs …

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One of the key concerns is the two principal ways of making nuclear fuel — the enrichment of uranium, for instance, in huge installations of centrifuges; and the reprocessing of spent fuel into plutonium — can too easily be used to …

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Since 1969, when India’s first nuclear reactor was commissioned for power generation, the total amount of power generation till 2005 is peeked at 3360 megawatts. Among these PHWRs, the RAPS-1 reactor in Rajasthan has been virtually …

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Plutonium is created when U238 is irradiated in a nuclear reactor where it absorbs neutrons and part of it is transmuted into plutonium. Similarly, U233 is created when thorium is irradiated in a nuclear reactor, where it absorbs …

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… is not the only possible fuel for a power plant. Another fissionable material is plutonium-239. Plutonium-239 can be created easily by bombarding U-238 with neutrons — something that happens all the time in a nuclear reactor. …

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