India To Build 4 New Nuclear Reactors

India will soon build four more 700-MW capacity nuclear reactors, the country’s Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) announced Monday.

“We are looking forward to launching new 700 megawatt power reactors. The government has already given in principal approval for four 700-megawatt units. So we want to quickly get the approval and start the construction,” AEC Chairman Anil Kakodkar said in Chennai, southern India.

The decision to build four more nuclear reactors to meet the growing demand of nuclear power in the country came in the wake of the United States, Russia and European Union nations have expressed their willingness to sell nuclear technologies, materials and services to India.

During the U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit to India last month, the two countries have reported agreed upon two sites to build nuclear reactors with U.S. nuclear technology.

August 3rd, 2009