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With the groundbreaking for its first nuclear joint venture project expected within the next two months, India’s largest power company has confirmed it intends to set up a nuclear power subsidiary and is actively looking for locations for plants.

Date: Wednesday, 21 August 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/India-s-NTPC-confirms-plans-for-nuclear-subsidiary

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The Indian government has announced plans to partner with the private sector to develop small modular reactors in a 2024-25 budget announcement which recognises a significant role for nuclear in the country's future energy mix.

Date: Thursday, 25 July 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/SMRs-feature-in-Indian-budget

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India aims to add 18 new nuclear power reactors with a capacity of 13,800 MWe by 2031-32, Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) announced after Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated two 700 MWe reactors at Kakrapar Atomic Power Station (KAPS) in Gujarat. The additional 18 units will bring the total share of nuclear power in the energy mix to 22,480 MWe by 2031-32. Currently NPCIL operates 24 reactors with a total capacity of 8,180 MWe.

Date: Thursday, 29 February 2024
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsindia-expands-nuclear-development-plans-as-it-launches-two-new-units-at-kakrapar-11554046

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Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd has announced that Kakrapar 4 was connected to the grid on 20 February. The 700 MWe unit reached first criticality on 17 December.

Date: Tuesday, 27 February 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/India-s-newest-nuclear-unit-connected-to-grid

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi's formal dedication to the nation of Kakrapar units 3 and 4 - the first Indian-designed 700 MWe pressurised heavy water reactors - took place days after reports that the Indian government is in talks with several private firms to invest in the country's nuclear sector.

Date: Saturday, 24 February 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/India-to-seek-nuclear-investors-as-Kakrapar-plants

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A new protocol to the intergovernmental agreement on the construction of the Kudankulam nuclear power plant was signed during a two-day visit by Rosatom Director General Alexei Likhachev to the Indian plant.

Date: Friday, 09 February 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Rosatom-boss-optimistic-about-expanding-nuclear-co

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The Demonstration Fast Reactor Fuel Reprocessing Plant (DFRP) is a precursor to large-scale plants for the reprocessing of fast reactor fuel.

Date: Friday, 05 January 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Indian-PM-dedicates-demonstration-reprocessing-pla

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The barge vital carrying two steam generators for units 5&6 of India’s Kudankulam NPP is stuck on a rock close to the plant’s purpose built jetty. The ongoing operation to rescue the barge suffered a setback recently resulting in the bottom of the barge being damaged, The Hindu reported. 

Date: Wednesday, 20 September 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newssteam-generators-for-kudankulam-npp-stranded-at-sea-on-damaged-barge-11157856

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Russia's Rosatom says two reactor vessels and eight steam generators are being shipped to Kudankulam unit 5 in India and Tianwan unit 7 in China, calling it the first time two sets of such equipment have been shipped at the same time from one production site.

Date: Wednesday, 26 April 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Key-equipment-shipped-together-to-India-and-China

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Installed nuclear capacity is set to more than triple by 2031, and nuclear power plants are likely to generate about 9% of the country's electricity by 2047, according to Minister of State Jitendra Singh. India's nuclear power plants generated more than 3% of its electricity last year - despite representing only 1.6% of the country's installed capacity.

Date: Thursday, 13 April 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Indian-minister-eyes-9-nuclear-share-by-2047

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