GoI gears up for nuclear projects with foreign collaboration
The Dollar Business Bureau India is likely to complete four indigenous nuclear power reactors by 2019. The four reactors to be completed by 2019 are currently under construction-- two at Kakrapar, Gujarat and the other two at Rawatbhata, Rajasthan, the Minister of State, Personnel, PG & Pensions, Jitendra Singh, said on Thursday. Besides, the financial approval has also been given to two other indigenous nuclear reactors at Gorakhpur, Haryana. The plants are likely be launched in 2015-16 and scheduled to be completed by 2021. Two more indigenous reactors of 700 MW generation capacity are also expected to be completed by 2024. Also, the government has given ‘in-principle’ approval for locating nuclear power projects in future, based on both indigenous technologies and with foreign ...
