India is planning a rapid expansion of its nuclear power plant capacity. New Sites in Gujarat, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh have been identified and land acquisition processes started. Now there is news about the site in Haripur, West Bengal. According to NPCIL Chairman Dr. SK Jain, "Ground work including collection...
Russia seeks India co-investment in $3 billion Elkon Uranium Project
Russia offers India 49% control of joint uranium mining projects in country, such as the proposed Elkon development. Russia's Rosatom and India's Uranium Corporation of India Limited have been negotiating the joint development of a large uranium reserve in the republic of Sakha, Sergei Kiriyenko, the Russian state nuclear holding's...
Kaiga Unit 4 to produce electricity for grid in January 2011
Unit 4 of the Kaiga nuclear power plant in Karnataka state started up on November 27th , and is likely to be connected to India's grid in January 2011. This is the last of the original 220 MWe largely indigenously-designed reactors, and the Nuclear Power Corporation is now building 700...
700 MW nuclear plant project achieves first mileston at Kakrapar
Construction work of India's first pair of indigenously designed 700-MW Pressurised Heavy Water Reactors (PHWRs) for Kakrapar Atomic Power Project Units 3 and 4 began in Gujarat State with the "first pour of concrete". The Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd current operates two smaller units at this location and...
Indian Oil to invest in Nuclear Power
Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) may invest upto 26 percent of $2.7 billion to expand the Rajasthan Atomic Power Stations of India's Nuclear Power Corporation Ltd (NPCIL). At present Indian law does not permit private sector investment into Atomic Energy. NPCIL is 100% owned by the Indian government via its Department...
Heavy-Water Nuclear Reactor Exports from India, Chief Asserts
Dr. Srikumar Banerjee, India's topmost atomic energy official, said in Vienna, Austria this week that Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd is "ready to offer Indian PHWRs of 220 MWe or 540 MWe for export." Banerjee claims that Indian industry is also "on the way" to becoming a competitive supplier...