India Targets Five Small Modular Reactors by 2033
The plan includes $2 billion in funding and a first reactor site shortlisted for carbon-free hydrogen production.
- India plans to build five indigenous small modular reactors by 2033 to broaden nuclear power use and reduce coal reliance, Atomic Energy Minister Jitendra Singh told lawmakers on Wednesday.
- Last year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government authorized private investment in atomic power projects, pursuing an eleven-fold expansion to 100 gigawatts of nuclear capacity by 2047.
- The Mumbai-based Bhabha Atomic Research Centre is developing three reactor designs, including a gas-cooled model for hydrogen production planned in the port city of Visakhapatnam.
- India has committed more than $2 billion to SMR development, with state-owned NTPC Ltd expected to account for 30% of new nuclear capacity installations by 2047.
- Officials aim to boost installed capacity from 8.78 gigawatts to about 22 gigawatts by 2031-32, with the SHANTI Act expected to drive significant private investment into the sector.
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India Targets Five Small Modular Reactors by 2033
India expects to build domestically five small modular reactors (SMRs) by 2033, India’s Atomic Energy Minister, Jitendra Singh, has said. The five SMRs would be part of India’s push to accelerate nuclear power capacity installations over the next two decades, the minister told lawmakers in a written reply to questions as carried by local media. The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), India’s premier nuclear research facility under the Departme…
It is planned to create a reactor of up to 5 megawatts thermal for the production of hydrogen by thermochemical cycles, according to Indian minister.
India advances small reactor plans, targets five nuclear units by 2033
India is preparing to build five small modular reactors (SMRs) in the country by 2033, Indian Atomic Energy Minister Jitendra Singh said. The five SMRs are part of India's program to accelerate the development of nuclear reactors over the next 30 years, the minister said in a press conference. Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC), […] The article India aims to develop five small modular reactors (SMRs) by 2033 first appeared in CursDeGuvernare.r…
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