Identification of Potential Sites for Nuclear Power Plants for a Sustainable Energy Mix

NIAS Lecture Hall
Nature of the Event
NIAS Wednesday Discussion
Speaker
Dr A V Krishnan
Visiting Professor
Venue
NIAS Lecture Hall
Event date
10 August, 1600 hrs
Other details

Abstract:   NIAS had brought out a Transition Plan for Thermal Power Plants (TPPs) in India, which recommended the retirement of old and obsolete TPPs of capacity 210 MW and below in a phased manner, once they completed 25 years of operation. The brownfield sites vacated by these TPPs must then be used to put up more efficient and clean energy generation. In October 2021, BRNS granted a two-year research project, entitled “Identification of Potential Sites for Nuclear Power Plants for Sustainable Energy Mix.” 

 

BRNS wanted NIAS to assess the suitability of the retiring Thermal Power Stations (TPS) to replace them with Small and Modular Nuclear Reactors (SMR), to increase the pace of nuclear capacity addition in India. This study includes the following objectives:


(1) Identify all TPS in India, where the obsolete and inefficient TPP units have either already retired or can be earmarked for progressive retirement by 2040

(2) Study the location and site characteristics of such TPS and apply geospatial techniques to assess the geometrical parameters of the TPS and the proposed exclusion zone (1-km radius) around the centre of the proposed SMR(s)

(3) Review the key features of the first lot of TPS and shortlist certain TPS for a more detailed study vis-a-vis the AERB selection criteria 

(4) Make site visits to the shortlisted TPS sites to validate the findings of the desktop study

 

About the speaker:  Shri A V Krishnan is a Visiting Professor in the Energy, Environment and Climate Change Programme. He is working at NIAS since May 2019 in various projects. related to transition pathways for power plants and Clean Coal Technologies. He retired from Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL), Tiruchirappalli as CEO and Executive Director of the plant. He was responsible for establishing the technology of super-critical boilers in India and was closely involved in the development of Advanced Ultra Supercritical Boilers. Apart from NIAS, he holds an honorary position of "Advisor of Eminence" in the American Society for Quality (India), Member of the Board of Governors for Trichy Regional Engineering College – Science and Technology Entrepreneurs Park (TREC–STEP) under the Department of Science and Technology. He also was a member of the Review and Monitoring Committee for Advanced Ultra Super Critical (AUSC) Power Plant R&D Project, constituted by the Office of the Principal Scientific Advisor, Government of India.