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Posted: Sep 28 2015 (22:24)
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Last Response: Sep 30 2015 (18:41)
8 Responses
Last Response: Sep 30 2015 (18:41)
Have scientists/engineers have given a thought about Nuclear powered engines for train. As many submarines do use it and nuclear power is clean energy so it won't affect the environment as diesel/electric engine do.
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Probably that is the thing, we Indians haven't research about it. Maybe we can come up with a small reactor which is suitable for engine.
Even other countries don't prefer Nuclear energy for small scale applications. The first idea of a nuclear powered train was mooted sometime in the 1950's by Russia. At that time there wasn't much awareness about the danger posed by nuclear reactors ( disasters like the Chernobyl and Fukushima occured much later).
Portable reactors were developed for research stations in Antarctica, but while these reactors were small ( hardly 1 metre x 1 metre in area), but they were not designed to be put on moving machines. More than reactor size, the problem is the shielding from the generated radiation ( which has a really high penetration power). And when people are walking beside the loco in...
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Portable reactors were developed for research stations in Antarctica, but while these reactors were small ( hardly 1 metre x 1 metre in area), but they were not designed to be put on moving machines. More than reactor size, the problem is the shielding from the generated radiation ( which has a really high penetration power). And when people are walking beside the loco in...
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Has Solar Energy ever been tried on any of the locomotives? It can serve as an alternate power supplier along with the current drawn from the OHE.
As far as I could search, I've found no mention of Solar -powered trains other than IR's trials with Solar powered coaches. The only thing I could find was a discussion on using Solar power to super heat water in fireless steam locomotives.
Usually our locomotives consume power on the order of Mega watts. I doubt if consistently meeting such power levels is possible with just the area available on the shell of a locomotive. And since, the output of the panels is affected by the surroundings and weather also, consistently meeting the power requirement of the locomotive will be very difficult, even more so on gradients etc. Even for using simultaneously with the OHE power,...
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Usually our locomotives consume power on the order of Mega watts. I doubt if consistently meeting such power levels is possible with just the area available on the shell of a locomotive. And since, the output of the panels is affected by the surroundings and weather also, consistently meeting the power requirement of the locomotive will be very difficult, even more so on gradients etc. Even for using simultaneously with the OHE power,...
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Its not a good idea becoz if any accident will take place involving engine damage then it will have a dangerous and devasting impact on environment just like a small nuclear bomb. And to control radiation emmited by rods huge amount of steel cage will be required which will ultimately increase the weight of engine enormously...and engines made by such concept will be huge in terms of width and length...