India has approved the construction of ten indigenously designed pressurised heavy water reactors (PHWR). India approved the construction of ten 700 MWe units in a “significant decision to fast-track India’s domestic nuclear power program”.
The Cabinet’s announcement did not give any timeline or locations for the new plants, but said the project would result in a “significant augmentation” of the country’s nuclear generation capacity.
India has 6780 MWe of installed nuclear capacity from 22 operational reactors with another 6700 MWe expected to come on stream over the next five years, the cabinet noted. It said the ten new units would be a “fully homegrown initiative”, with likely manufacturing orders to Indian industry of about INR 700 billion ($11 billion).
China is to supply Argentina with two nuclear power reactors – one a Candu pressurised heavy water reactor (PHWR), the other a Hualong One pressurised water reactor (PWR). The contract was among 19 agreements signed yesterday in Beijing during a meeting of Chinese president Xi Jinping and Argentinean president Mauricio Macri.
Source: NextBigFuture.com
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday May 20 2017, @05:00PM
My first hope was India wouldn't build any more nukes.
Why? India's power mix is not even close to the top of their list of problems. Helping improve the lives of a billion is. While there should be some concern over whether India will regulate these plants well, it remains that something like these plants is necessary for India to have.
Oh, well. Welcome to the mid-20th Century, India.
Nobody has figured out a better way to do fission (or fusion) yet. So it is 21st Century tech as well.