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Country wants to deploy 18 new units by early 2030s
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Tuesday, 27 February 2024
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/kakrapar-4-reactor-connected-to-the-grid-as-nation-pushes-for-major-expansion-of-nuclear-power-2-1-2024
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has dedicated to the nation the Demonstration Fast Reactor Fuel Reprocessing Plant (DFRP) at the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) at Kalpakkam in Chengalpattu district. The DFPR was built at a cost of about INR4bn ($48m) and is the world's only industrial-scale plant capable of handling both carbide and oxide used fuels from fast reactors, according to an official statement.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 11 January 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsindian-pm-dedicates-demonstration-fuel-reprocessing-plant-to-nation-11425550
Government has confirmed plans to build at least 10 more nuclear plants
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Wednesday, 06 September 2023
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/kakrapar-3-indigenous-phwr-begins-operation-at-100-capacity-9-2-2023
New Delhi has ambitious plans for 10 more units
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Thursday, 06 July 2023
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/first-indigenous-700-mw-phwr-begins-commercial-operation-at-kakrapar-7-3-2023
India will get 9% of its electricity from nuclear sources by 2047, the centenary year of India’s independence, according to the Union Minister of State for Science, Technology, Atomic Energy & Space, Jitendra Singh. He was speaking after holding a review meeting with a group of senior scientists from the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), at the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) in Mumbai.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 13 April 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsindia-plans-9-nuclear-share-by-2047-10750375
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.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 13 April 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Indian-minister-eyes-9-nuclear-share-by-2047
India’s Minister of State in the Department of Space and Department of Atomic Energy, Jitendra Singh, said India's present nuclear power capacity of 6780MWe is planned to be increased to 22,480MWe by 2031.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 22 December 2021
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsindia-to-boost-nuclear-power-capacity-to-225gw-by-2031-9337025
India's Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR), currently under construction at Kalpakkam in Tamil Nadu, is currently targeted for completion in October 2022, Minister of State Jitendra Singh has told the Lok Sabha. Singh also said Kudankulam units 3 and 4 are expected to be completed in 2023.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 17 December 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Minister-foresees-2022-completion-date-for-Indian
India's Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) has developed a process to harvest medical-grade ruthenium-160, allowing the indigenous production of plaques of the material for use in eye cancer therapy. Ruthenium is a fission by-product of the nuclear reprocessing cycle.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 16 January 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/India-produces-first-indigenous-eye-cancer-treatme
Nine years after Apsara, India’s first and oldest research reactor was shut down, the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) on 10 September launched the Apsara-upgraded (U).
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 20 September 2018
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsindia-restarts-upgraded-apsara-research-reactor-6759381