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Written by Richard Finlayson, Senior International Editor for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--India's new Minister for Environment and Forests, M. Veerappa Moily, has cleared the way for work to begin on a number of power projects, which were stalled by not having been given appropriate clearances.
The acceleration of the project, which was precipitated by the new minister's initiatives, has been ongoing since the last week of December 2013, following the resignation of Jayanthi Natarajan as minister. Natarajan is reported to have sat on the file for the Gorakhpur nuclear project in Haryana for more than a year, despite a number of approaches to her for progress reports by state-owned Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL).
This week, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh laid the foundation stone at the Gorakhpur site, which is about 170 kilometers (105 miles) northwest of Delhi. The two 700-megawatt (MW) reactors for the first phase of the project are the same type of Indian-designed pressurized heavy water reactors (PHWRs) that are being installed at two other nuclear power projects. These are units 3 and 4 of the Kakrapar plant in Gujarat, and units 7 and 8 of the Rawatbhta plant in Rajasthan.
The Gorakphur plant is scheduled to be built in two phases, each with two 700-MW PHWRs. The first concrete will be poured in mid-June, following the completion of preparatory groundwork and final approvals.
Construction is expected to take 63 months. The second unit will follow the first by six months, and both units are set to begin operating by 2020-21. The cost of the first two units is estimated at $3.4 billion.
At the foundation stone-laying ceremony, the prime minister said: "Today our country has an installed nuclear power generating capacity of 4,800 MW. We hope that in the next ten years, the country will manage to achieve more than 27,000 MW of nuclear power capacity."
For related information, see September 30, 2013, article - India Targets 63 Gigawatts of Nuclear Power by 2032 with Low-Cost Reactors.
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The acceleration of the project, which was precipitated by the new minister's initiatives, has been ongoing since the last week of December 2013, following the resignation of Jayanthi Natarajan as minister. Natarajan is reported to have sat on the file for the Gorakhpur nuclear project in Haryana for more than a year, despite a number of approaches to her for progress reports by state-owned Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL).
This week, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh laid the foundation stone at the Gorakhpur site, which is about 170 kilometers (105 miles) northwest of Delhi. The two 700-megawatt (MW) reactors for the first phase of the project are the same type of Indian-designed pressurized heavy water reactors (PHWRs) that are being installed at two other nuclear power projects. These are units 3 and 4 of the Kakrapar plant in Gujarat, and units 7 and 8 of the Rawatbhta plant in Rajasthan.
The Gorakphur plant is scheduled to be built in two phases, each with two 700-MW PHWRs. The first concrete will be poured in mid-June, following the completion of preparatory groundwork and final approvals.
Construction is expected to take 63 months. The second unit will follow the first by six months, and both units are set to begin operating by 2020-21. The cost of the first two units is estimated at $3.4 billion.
At the foundation stone-laying ceremony, the prime minister said: "Today our country has an installed nuclear power generating capacity of 4,800 MW. We hope that in the next ten years, the country will manage to achieve more than 27,000 MW of nuclear power capacity."
For related information, see September 30, 2013, article - India Targets 63 Gigawatts of Nuclear Power by 2032 with Low-Cost Reactors.
View Project Report - 89001508 89001527 20001130
Industrial Info Resources (IIR), with global headquarters in Sugar Land, Texas, three offices in North America and nine international offices, is the leading provider of global market intelligence specializing in the industrial process, heavy manufacturing and energy markets. Industrial Info's quality-assurance philosophy, the Living Forward Reporting Principle, provides up-to-the-minute intelligence on what's happening now, while constantly keeping track of future opportunities.
