The Kakrapar nuclear reactors in Gujarat have been informed to be totally synchronised with the grid. (File)
New Delhi:
At the very least 10 nuclear reactors are being put in within the nation whereas two reactors in Gujarat’s Kakrapar have began producing energy commercially, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Know-how was knowledgeable on Monday.
In accordance with sources, the brand new nuclear reactors arising in states like Gujarat, Rajasthan and Haryana are of 700 MW capability and can begin working within the subsequent few years.
The main points of the brand new nuclear reactors had been offered to the members of the Standing Committee of Parliament on Science and Know-how, Setting, Forests and Local weather Change throughout a gathering right here.
Congress chief Jairam Ramesh, who’s a member of the committee in addition to its former chairman, stated members of the panel had been knowledgeable in the course of the assembly that the Kakrapar-3 and Kakrapar-4 nuclear reactors in Gujarat have been totally synchronised with the grid and are producing energy commercially.
“This can be a main accomplishment since these are indigenously designed 700-megawatt reactors that had been accepted in 2007. Development had begun in 2010. Extra such reactors are being put in at completely different places,” he stated in a submit on X.
“One other instance of how a lot continuity there’s in our growth – which is rarely acknowledged by ‘El Supremo’,” Ramesh stated, stressing that it was in the course of the Congress regime when the 2 nuclear reactors in Kakrapar had been accepted.
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