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The Centre in its eleventh Five-Year Plan will construct eight new pressurised heavy water reactors of seven hundred megawatt each in the country.
New Delhi, Aug 16 : The Centre in its eleventh Five-Year Plan will construct eight new pressurised heavy water reactors of seven hundred megawatt each in the country.
Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office, Prithviraj Chavan, disclosed this in a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha today.
"The eleventh plan proposals envisage start of work on eight indigenous Pressurised Heavy Water Reactors (PHWRs) of 700Mwe each to be set up on a twin unit basis," a government release stated.
The first two units are planned to be located at Kakrapar in Gujarat and two at Rawatbhata in Rajasthan.
The annual power production from a twin 700 MWe station will be about 10,000 million units of electricity.
Chavan further said that studies are being presently done for using Thorium in different types of reactors since the country has a vast reserve of it.
ANI
