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Role of Nuclear Engineering
- Before we can start understanding about nuclear power, it is essential to look at the motivation.
- We shall realise that if India has to meet its aspirations of providing decent living to its people, it is necessary that nuclear has to grow fast.
- If this is planned properly and executed, there are tremendous opportunities for nuclear engineers.
- Let us show this in a brief manner.
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Population Growth
- The source for the information on facts and figures are taken from a recent publication by Grover and Chandra (R.B. Grover and S. Chandra, “Scenario for growth of energy in India”, Energy Policy, Vol. 34, 2006, pp 2834-2847).
- Energy is generated for people to use it and hence we need to have a good picture of the population dynamics before we can project the energy requirements.
- The population statistics past, present and projected are given in the following Table:
| Year |
Population (Billions) |
Growth Rate (per year) |
2001 |
1.027 |
1.50 |
2011 |
1.19 |
1.02 |
2021 |
1.32 |
0.7 |
2031 |
1.41 |
0.4 |
2041 |
1.47 |
0.2 |
2051 |
1.50 |
0.0 |
- We expect to stabilise around 2050.
- We need to provide electricity for 1.5 billion people.
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