India's first set of indigenous 700MW pressurised heavy water reactors, would be a reality in the next six years, as the excavation work at Kakrapar in Gujarat has already started.
The Centre had last October given a financial sanction of US$5 billion for four units of 700mw of PHWRs, two each at Kakrapar and Rawatbhata in Rajashtan. NPCIL will be completing the procurement order of all components by September 2010.
NPCIL is also initiating pre-project activities at the sites recently approved (in principle) by the centre—Hissar in Haryana and Burgi in Madhya Pradesh where four more 700mw (two at each site) are expected to come up.
Techno-commercial negotiations with Russia and France for setting two more power plants in Koodankulam in Tamil Nadu and two at Jaitapur in Maharashtra are going on.
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