Nuclear Data Development Related to the Th-U Fuel Cycle in India

This paper aims to share the excitement, challenges, and progress in the indigenous Indian efforts in nuclear data science in a generic context, in particular, towards the utilization of the thorium fuel cycle. To meet all the nuclear data needs in India for energy and non-energy applications, a Nuclear Data Physics Centre of India (NDPCI) was successfully formed in 2009. The NDPCI operates in a virtual mode at this time. Efforts are underway to create a sustainable physical center for the NDPCI. This paper also presents the interesting results of calculations that show a highly positive temperature coefficient for the BeO reflector in the KAMINI reactor, the only operating 233U-fuelled reactor in the world.

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