India to set up 21 nuke projects

  • 14/10/2008

  • Asian Age (New Delhi)

BY RASHME SEHGAL NEW DELHI India is kick starting its nuclear facilities by setting up 21 nuclear power projects based on three different technologies. These include the setting up of six French reactors of 1,600 MW, four Russian reactors of 1,000 MW and four American reactors of 1,500 MW within the next five years. Senior sources in the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) point out that each of these reactors is likely to cost a minimum of $2 billion and will collectively produce 30,000 megawatts of nuclear energy. While the French nuclear company Areva is setting up the French reactors, the Russian public sector unit Rosatom and the US