every time it surprises me...topics taken by vaad hats off....far far better than any other podcasts in india

Bhai sahaab.....kya gajab topic aur kitna important topic has been chosen for podcast. Salute and respect to you man. 😮😮

Another correction India is not currently building any 220 MW reactor, India is now building 700MW 2 reactors running Kakrapar

Vaad is the best nationalistic podcast of all. No jingoism ,no rhetorics ,only real issues.Thank you arihant bhai. Hope someone in the government is listening

NGO gang par koi question nahi puchha. Biggest issue is NGO gang.

You cover all important issues India is dealing with. A proper intellectual, a proper thinker. This is the most important channel for people of care about the future of the people of this nation.

What a fantastic pod! In a world of noisy, low quality content it always makes me happy to come across quality and meaningful podcasts. And a special shout-out to Dr. Nitendra for covering the topic in depth and in a manner EVERYONE could understand. Thank you.

Good Clear discussion. 1. Thorium as a fuel was not discussed 2. Plutonium Fast Breeder reactors were not discussed 3. Sea water cooling is probably mandatory ,,,That was not discussed 4. Is investment capital an issue. Perhaps Nuclear is 3X cost per installed MW capacity vs Coal Fired Power Plants. ++++++++++++++++ Isnt Kudankulam 1000 mw each , 2 working , 2 in construction why harp on 220 MW units.

Thanks to Dr. Nitendra Singh pushing the limits for Nuclear in India. Well informative interview 🙏

Kudos to Natinder ji. Despite living outside, u r thinking so much for India. True bharatiye

Kudos Arihant bhai, Doing wonders and Going places. Just 1 regret, please don't free pass to your guest, thoda cross question kiya karo bus.

Topics taken by this channel are always in the interest of the country and citizens ......

India has rich reserves of Thorium. But due to eagle eye of China and US we are going slow. Once we start Thorium based efficient nuclear reactors with a bang, we have to face other consequences from the super powers

There are around 20 reactors under various stages of construction and pre commissioning activities in Bharat. This is second only to China. Government is doing work on nuclear. More work is being done now than last 70 years. Two main issues for slow pace which the scientist failed to mention are: Technical: It's not just about building reactors. Indian Nuclear Energy needs a whole pipeline, from fuel and heavy water fabrication facilities to de titration and storage facilites. Work is under progress on this whole chain. Non-technical: Andolanjeevi It won't even take a small nuclear accident for the whole china funded andolanjevi gang to shut down our whole nuclear program. We have seen what they can do in farmer law protest. So the government needs to go slow and steady without making much noise. And this factor is the biggest, these andolan jeevi are shutting down Europe's nuclear power plants based on 40 yr old Chernobyl disaster. Even Japan is going reverse gear in nuclear after fukushima, and USA just talks on SMR and stuff. He is praising France and US, But the reality is that whole west has no replacement plan for the hundreds of reactors that were build in 70s and 80s, which will retire within a decade. US built only 2 & France built ZERO new nuclear reactors in last 25 years. He also mentioned private sector. The government opened nuclear to private sector for medical and agricultural application years back. And NPCIL collaborates with private players like L&T and Tata for reactor construction. This PPP mode is better because we can see that pure private players like GE, Westing House, Toshiba & Mitsubishi are failing in nuclear sector. If we see in comparison to rest of the world, Bharat is doing great. We are developing our whole technology chain and building reactors on our own.

Two things were not touched... 1. Present geopolitical scenario stops supplying fuel grade uranium to India 2. The hypocrisy of NGOs and organisations who advocate for green energy and environment but try their best to stop nuclear power plant project

देश और दुनिया को परमाणु ऊर्जा की बहुत आवश्यकता है। देश वाशियो को भी इसका महत्व समझा होगा ।

Proud of you Vaad for making such a nice conversation ❤❤❤....and clearing the Myths

Excellent topic and highly experienced person cleared all doubts

Wow such a smart person with so much clarity! would like to see him again.

Really eyeopener from Dr. Nitendra for creating an awareness on climate change challenges and addressing clean energy. I believe Nuclear program need to expand as quickly as possible. Request government to find out way out for nation energy security. All best Dr. Nitendra and team I with your ideas.

It’s crazy expensive. Salal dam was constructed at a cost of 929 crores and its output is 690 MW which is Rs. 1.34 crore/MW. That means constructing a nuclear power plant is almost 13 times more expensive than hydropower plants.

Glad that I have got the chance to meet him in person. Proud of his success

I thank Vaad for making such informative podcasts. I really enjoy watching them and actually gaining insights. Keep up the good work!!

VAAD prodcasting is based on ground reality Indian govt should also watch this channel for the reality of ground situation.Vaad is doing excellent work.

ARIHANT Bhai, aapke Gyaan ko pranaam hai.

Respectfully, Dr. Nitendra Singh should have emphasised more on our lack of domestic nuclear reserves and non-membership in the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) severely restrict our nuclear supply. Ch*na blocked our NSG membership bid to slowdown our progress as they don't want another competing manufacturing power. Consequently, all our nuclear reactors operate below capacity, and even if we increase their number, we won't be able to fuel them adequately unless we get the NSG membership. The only remaining option is to fast-track our three-stage nuclear program, which eliminates the need to import uranium. In the third stage, fissile uranium is produced from thorium reactions, enabling us to fuel our nuclear plants making the process self sustaining.

Very good podcast. Kudos to Dr Singh ji for providing these details as well as mentioning all the initiatives he and his team is taking in India 🙏🏼

Vaad is an amazing podcast, tries to look into the future. Constructively critical. I have a question to the guest (if he can see) 1) Why is our nuclear lobby not pushing for it (I am assuming we don't have a strong lobby) 2) small modular reactors- Can we develop it individually?

Private industry want to contribute in nuclear energy but when it comes to insurance part they aren't ready. If this issue resolved they we can achieve any target in record time.

Costs. Delays in construction of plants. Nuclear + renewables are the answer. Most of the power demand is in during the day in India. Hybrid of solar, nuclear, wind almost eliminates need for huge batteries (almost). Ground source cooling & stopping copying glass building designs from abroad will keep energy demand reasonable and availability high for productive use of energy.

I knew whatever he said long back par mujhe safety k baray mein itna nahi malum tha. thanks!

Very informative.... thanks Vaad🙏🚩🇮🇳

भाई देखने में इतने साधारण लगते हो परंतु ऐसे असाधारण विचारों पर चर्चा कैसे कर लेते हो 🔥🙏💐

Hats off to this wonderful conversation.

Brother kya podcast tha ❤ it’s really add a good amount of knowledge in my life thanks a lot

Sir, I loved your podcast and guests are coming. Please use more shorts to attract new viewer and traffic. I think it will improve our community.

बहुत खूब...

No babudom in this sector. Chairman of DAE is secretary to GOI reporting directly to PM via incharge minister.

थोरियम आधारित न्यूक्लियर रिएक्टर डिस्कस नही किया आपने। थोरियम भारत के पास काफी है। इसमें शायद इंडिया कुछ कर रहा है।

We need at least 100GW Nuclear power by 2047 .

It's highly enlightening session. Lot more such dissipation of ideas in the nuclear field is needed. We must not waste time any more and start moving in this direction.

Hii team vaad Twitted this podcast to pmo let's see what happened. ❤ for topic 👍🙏

He is not formal staff in ITER . He is just associate and formally such policies are decided by Department of Atomic Energy, Govt. of India .

Structure of DAE needs to be reviewed

Very important video. Thanks for bringing this up.

Why this kind of discussions are not being made in national media.

Appreciate vaad for taking Unthinkable topics

Bhai yeh aadmi jitna simplify karke bol raha hain utna simplei nahi hain. India plants isliye nahi laga raha hain kyonki supply of uranium is very less. India ka 3 stage nuclear programme hain jo thorium ka use karega. Isme geopolitics bhi involve hain. India mein uranium kaafi kam hain hame cannada yeh west par kaafi dependent hona padega aise hein oil ke dependency kaafi zyada hain . Abhi hum 2nd stage complete karenge. He is talking most nonsensical thing

Brilliant podcast. Thanks to both of you 👌🏽😊🇮🇳

Good choice of Guest. Keep it up Bro!

Nuclear energy is clean energy, kurzgesagt has made a great video on busting myths around nuclear energy.

You missed the NGOs which are opposing this with the help of local farmers

Very nice topic picked by VAAD TEAM

Wow...he is our protector

India as an individual should work on Fusion rectors besides the ITER program. Because it is the cleanest energy source in the world right now. I surfed on your IYNS website & its good but, you used a wrong map of India where POK & china occupied Ladakh are excluded from the map. & also I'll suggest if you can include internship in BARC besides ITER, that will be very helpful for most of the students in India.

Wonderful conversation It is high time to switch over to Nuclear energy.

How the supply side of uranium ensured especially processed uranium. Uranium process, raw materials is complicated and assured supply which we depend on other countries. How india going to manage even we faced trouble for BARC, Tarapur and other plants.

Bahot badhiya Podcast Arihantji Jai Hind 🙏🏻

This gentle man is working on ITER project

Such misleading podcast. Did not discuss anything about the problems of Cost escalation of building plant Time needed to build Security, even Japanese failed here Wartime Safety, we don't have NATO Intensive water requirement Nuclear Waste

Very important topic.. thank you Arihant for doing this podcast

The scientist literally fed the point to the podcaster -" problem kaha hai " . The Indian atomic energy sector and Bureaucracy of India is not filled with lazy and inefficient people . On the contrary - they are way to efficient but cunning . Imagine the loss to coal mafias , companies which make huge dams and other power sector private players if you introduce a low budget and sustainable alternative like nuclear . The famlies which have generational wealth ( live billions and billions of profit from inefficient energy sector ) will take the government down .

भारत ने 2027 का क्लाइमेट गोल कंप्लीट कर चुका है 2024 में

Everytime VAAD comes with a totally new idea for development and vision

After listening to you sir, only one thing screaming in mind...is desh mein kuch nahi hoyega...

Main problem hai ki uranium (fuel) kahan se aayega??

Good conversation but lacking these essential discussion area - (1) Radiation exposure to people working in the reactor (2) Radiation exposure due to air strike (3) Location of reactor to population considering huge population density and T&D loss.

It's so good to see U Sir. Regards.

Great to see such videos on your channel

India me 2010 me nuclear reactor lag jana tha , hum 15 saal peeche hain , hum abhi bhi baat hi kar rahe hai aur coal se bijli production kar rahe hain .

Very informative discussion.

Need more awareness on topic like these.

Comments on nuclear solar and wind are incorrect He needs to do more research Nuclear waste is just the size of one football field all around the world- where is the research on this Solar panel life and area required- research? France it self can’t make a new nuclear reactor(are they financially feasible? Just check their energy rate vs other sources). Just check their track record in last 30 years

Nice discussion, informative

Modi Govt has destroyed the power sector in India even before Modi came to power. The so called "coal scam" and subsequent cancellation of coal.mines lease by Supreme court, led to all the power sector private players leave power sector. After Modi came to power not even a single thermal power plant came up in India. Secondly, Modi only focussed on solar Power which only provides power during the day. The Nuclear power plants too were put in the back burner in India. The main issue with India is it has no nuclear fuel . Uranium is not mined in India even to cater to existing power plants. We used to run NPPs at 60% of its capacity because of lack of fuel. Nuclear can't give you energy independence. India has a lot of coal reserves. It has to develop efficient and clean technology for coal based power plants. Indian solar Power plants have grown but we need to keep in mind solar 1 MW produces only 4000 units per day, whereas Thermal power plants 1 MW gives 24000 units per day. I think this man has very less practical experience. NPP plant is small but area required is huge because of radiation concerns. Third NPP consumes huge amount of water. A 200 MW NPP plant consumes 800 m3 of water every hour. Operating cost is not small. Then capital cost of a NPP is huge.

Very knowledgeable podcast

India is ranked 159 out of the 180 nations considered in the 2024 press freedom index

After Modi’s Visit to Russia, There are Talks of Russia Building 6 New Plants.

Awesome content, but a few questions : as you said that we are always following trends and technologies but why are we not developing our fast breeder reactors or doing ground breaking research in the same? A doubt : if we have 1000 reactors for which we need to import fuel from the few countries supplying it, it becomes another petroleum and we can be badly arm twisted ! Why don't we use out own Thorium fuel as available around our coasts accounting to 25 % of the total available fuel in the world and developing our local reactors (which was probably abandoned after Homi Bhabha departed) I see that some entity / political party(ies) have deliberately sabotaged our fast breeder reactors program!

Indian energy comes from now thorium & india has a large amount of base material available at the coastal belt of our coastal states

KAPP 3&4 (2X700 MW) are located at Kakrapar in Surat district of Gujarat, adjacent to the existing reactors KAPS 1&2 (2X220 MW). KAPP-4 is the second in the series of sixteen indigenous Pressurised Heavy Water Reactors (PHWR) of 700 MW each being set up in the country.

Wokeness to energy create nahi karti, bohot badhiya.

It’s not accurate conversation. I’m fine with the fact that nuclear power is cleaner than other fuels as long as there’s no accidents. Also when he said that only 27 people died at chernobil, that’s also wrong. 27 people died reportedly according to the corrupt Russian government of that time, but number was way higher than that. And then in the aftermath at least half a million people died in Russia who did the cleanup work, another 2 million people got radiation poisoning and hence many diseases like cancer. And then after that the place close to chernobil is still inhabitable. Almost 250 square kilometres of land area is inhabitable even till today and it will stay inhabitable for next 1000 years if not longer. Yes some people live in that area, but that’s because they are poor and they have no choice. But it’s not safe. So this claim is wrong. Also Russia can have such places which are inhabitable because they have 10 times less population than india and 7 times more land than india. But does india have that much land? Can we afford to just leave an area inhabitable for 1000 years? That’s what we need to think.

Vaad is way ahead of other podcast ❤

Very nice guest.

Semiconductor manufacturing ke baare me bhi podcast bnao

Sarkar ne lagta hai ki aapki baat suni aur naye reactors ke liye budget bhi diya.

the arguments given by him are shallow and there wasnt sufficient push back for instance nucleaur in germany in Europe they themselves are wanting to phase it out!

Amazing session ❤

Sir How Megha Engineering type of company get Neuclear Projects Please make a video on that

मैं भी सर ये चीज बोलता हूं अपने दोस्तो को तो वो bolte है तू एंटी नेशनल, हम बहुत पीछे है, कोल को हम बंद नहीं कर सकते क्योंकि एक आदमी का दोस्त है उसका कॉल का बिजनेस है, अगर न्यूक्लियर पावर प्लांट लग जाते है वो खत्म हो जाएगा

58:40 Problem is people are not "walking the talk". Lack of Leadership to take decisions and execute is the problem.

Sir ji, BHARAT me NGO , activities, Sedha Supreme kotha pohanch jaate hai, Apke ak project ko hi 20 saal Late karwa denge, SAT SHREE AKAL 🙏🏽 JAI HIND 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳

Bring Ajay Shah to your podcast

Our politician should be educated other wise it can't be done rapidly 😮

good discussion

Kundamkilam nuclear power plant should be reopened 😊😊😊😊

Very Good Podcast ..

Unless some big entrepreneur or industrialist gets in the business of nuclear energy, I don't see the government putting any money or resources in it and even if they did then we have andolans n dharnas which the Govt is literally trying to avoid. I don't see the gut n intent in the govt for clean nuclear energy.

sirji aapka video Nirmalaji tak pohoch gaya, jo bhi ye video mein discuss hua, most of them is mentioned in her speech for nuclear energy!