20 New Nuclear Power Plants To Be Commissioned By 2031

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India plans to commission 20 nuclear power plants by 2031, adding nearly 15,000 MW in power generating capacity, the government told the Lok Sabha today.

The first of these 20 nuclear power plants, a 700 MW unit, is expected to be commissioned in 2023 at Kakrapar in Gujarat, which already has three atomic power generating units operational.

According to a written reply by Minister of State in the PMO Jitendra Singh, the 500 MW Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor at Kalpakkam is likely to be operational in 2024, followed by two 1,000 MW units at Kudankulam in 2025.

Two 700 MW units at Rawatbhata in Rajasthan are likely to be completed by 2026, while another two 1,000 MW units are likely to be completed at Kudankulam by 2027, he said.

Two 700 MW units are expected to be completed at Gorakhpur in Haryana by 2029, the minister said listing out details of projects under consideration.

In addition, government had accorded administrative approvals and financial sanctions for building 10 atomic power units of 700 MW each at Gorakhpur, Haryana (units 3&4), Kaiga, Karnataka (units 5&6), Chutka, Madhya Pradesh (units 1&2) and four units at Mahi Banswara in Rajasthan.

These 10 nuclear power units are likely to be completed progressively by 2031, Mr Singh said.

In a written reply to a separate question, Mr Singh said the Kundankulam Nuclear Power Project (units 1&2) had contributed 48,382 Million Units of electricity to the national grid between 2017-18 and 2021-22.

The minister said the total number of Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited employees at present at Kudankulam site (KKNPP Units 1 to 6) was 1,257.

Mr Singh said of these, 810 employees are domiciles of Tamil Nadu.

NDTV

 

[GoodAlien]

who build N plants in India ? which company ?

 

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who build N plants in India ? which company ?

France is helping build 6 plants, Russia 10 and even Japan too helps in building a few.

 

[GoodAlien]

France is helping build 6 plants, Russia 10 and even Japan too helps in building a few.

i heard somewhere about china .

 

[JustAnObserver]

who build N plants in India ? which company ?

All the 700 MW sized Nuclear Power plants are built indigenously by Indian government owned company by name Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (aka NPCIL). Many Indian companies like L&T, BHEL, Godrej Industries, Walchandnagar Industries, Kirloskar and many other medium sized industries contribute towards the nuclear power plant building efforts.

I personally do not see French companies like EDF/Areva or even the Westinghouse corporation from US building any of their costly Nuclear Power plants in India in this decade even though signed agreements with Indian central government for the same in sites at Maharahstra & Andhra Pradesh. There are just too many complex activities that need to be fulfilled (including liability Insurance and more specifically the land acquisition process for project) and these are very contentious in nature & often lead to violent protests. The price of the Power being sold will eventually be costlier than what the NPCIL can provide from its 700 MW nuclear generation plants.

The Russian assistance for building their 1000 MW Nuclear power plants were more generous both in providing India with Financial Credit as well as the technical help. They have already built 2 numbers of 1000 MW Nuclear Power Generation plants & NPCIL has been running them since year 2012. Construction work is in progress for 4 more similar plants at the same site. But the costs of these new plants have risen 2 to 3 times more than the initial 2 power plants and the primary reason being the liability insurance charges.

Ironically - There were huge protests in the year 2011 at the stage when the first Nuclear Power Plant was on the verge of commencing power production.

This Power plant was being built since the Year 2002 but no protests happened even until the year 2010 when one more 1000 MW power plant was also being simultaneously built. Both the Central government under Manmohan Singh and State Government were careful not to be too violent with the protestors (who sprang up all of a sudden after having seen the construction of the power plants for nearly a decade) and still managed to ensure that the power plants started producing nuclear power. Here too it is NPCIL which is owning and running these plants with co-design on certain secondary aspects of the 1000 MW nuclear power generation plant. In this way - Russia is helping India with know how on certain complex aspects of commercial nuclear power production.

So these Russian technology based power plants may well be the only Foreign Technology based Indian Nuclear Power plants that would exist in India for the next decade or so.