India to launch 16 new nuclear reactors
Chennai: The Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) will launch 16 reactors at an outlay of Rs.2.3 trillion during the 12th Plan period (2012-17), a top official of the atomic power operator said.
“We have to launch eight 700 MW pressurised heavy water reactors (PHWRs) and eight light water reactors (LWRs) involving a total outlay of Rs 230,000 crore (Rs 2.3 trillion). The LWRs will be from foreign companies,” said SK Jain, who retired on Thursday as NPCIL chairman and managing director.
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According to him, the eight 700 MW PHWRs would come up at Kaiga in Karnataka, Gorakhpur in Haryana’s Fatehabad district, Banswada in Rajasthan and Chutka in Madhya Pradesh.
The 16 reactors are in addition to NPCIL’s four 700 MW PHWRs under construction—two at the Rajasthan Atomic Power Station (units 7 and 
and two at Kakrapara in Gujarat—at an outlay of Rs.22,000 crore.
and two at Kakrapara in Gujarat—at an outlay of Rs.22,000 crore.
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