Small and Medium Reactor Development Introduction 1. In the course of the meetings national programmes and projects in Member States were reviewed and discussed. Highlights of these activities in Member States presented at the meetings include the following. Detailed engineering work is being performed, which is needed prior to construction.
Some delay is, however, anticipated due to changes in the institutional framework of the project.
In India an existing PHWR at Kalpakkam will be coupled to a desalination unit. The first draft of the modified Preliminary Safety Assessment Report has been presented to the regulatory body and detailed engineering of the coupling system is under way. Civil work for the desalination systems has started and the commissioning is foreseen for year 2001. India offers this demonstration project for international cooperation. The reactor is planned to be coupled to a desalination unit.