The Government of India has concurred ‘in principle’ approval to 10 sites for setting up nuclear power projects in nine Indian states. Th MoS in the PMO Jitendra Singh said indigenous reactors would be established at
- Gorakhpur in Haryana,
- Chutka and Bhimpur in Madhya Pradesh,
- Kaiga in Karnataka
- Mahi Banswara in Rajasthan
Reactors with foreign cooperation would be set up in
- Kudankulam in Tamil Nadu
- Jaitapur at Maharashtra
- Chhaya Mithi Virdhi in Gujarat
- Kovvada in Andhra Pradesh
- Haripur in West Bengal.
Bharatiya Nabhikiya Vidyut Nigam Ltd (BHAVINI), the Chennai based Public Sector Undertaking, is currently building a Prototype Fast Breeder Reaction of 500 MWe capacity at Kalpakkam in Tamil Nadu. In addition, two Fast Breeder Reactors of 600 MW are also proposed to be constructed at Kalpakkam.
Tidbits
- BHAVINI is administered by the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE).
- Dr.P.Chellapandi is the current Chairman and Managing Director of BHAVINI.
- The DAE is a department directly under the Prime Minister of India with headquarters in Mumbai.
- DAE comprises five research centers, three industrial organizations, five public sector undertakings and three service organizations.
- India’s nuclear program started on March 1944 and its three-stage indigenous efforts in technology were established by Dr. Homi Bhabha.
- India has a declared nuclear no-first-use policy and is in the process of developing a nuclear doctrine based on “credible minimum deterrence
