Bangalore: India will push for building
large capacity integrated nuclear energy parks to step up
nuclear power production to meet increasing power demands,
Atomic Energy Commission Chairman S Banerjee said on day.
The integrated energy parks will have some imported
reactors of very high capacity ranging from 6000MW to 15,000MW
and this is essential in the wake of energy demand in India
going up to 600,000MW by 2032, Banerjee, also the Secretary,
Department of Atomic Energy, told reporters on the sidelines
of a function here.
The energy parks will have several high-capacity
reactors. "The advantage of energy parks is that sharing of
infrastructure, energy evacuation can help bring down the
cost of production which is reflected in the tariff", he said.
Similar parks are also coming up at Haripur in Midnapore
district of West Bengal involving Russian reactors and French
reactors are being installed in Ratnagiri district of
Maharashtra, he said.
"We are yet to decide on the two projects proposed by
companies in the US and are still in the discussion stage",
Banerjee said.
The other main focus, he said, has been developing
indigenous technology in nuclear reactor systems. Several
reactors are already coming up with indigenous technology in
the family of 700 mw reactors.
PTI
