Prakhar Gupta - May 18, 2017, 6:18 pm Shares 1.9 K Signaling its intent to fast-track India’s domestic nuclear power programme, the government on Wednesday approved a proposal to construct 10 indigenous units of pressurised heavy water reactors (PHWRs), each with the capacity of generating 700 Mega Watt (MW) of electricity, in a fully home grown initiative. This takes the number of planned 700MW PHWRs in India to 14, four of which are currently under construction at Kakrapar Atomic Power Station in Gujarat and Rajasthan Atomic Power Station in Rajasthan. Currently, India has 12 operational PHWRs with significantly lower capacities of 100 MW, 200 MW, 220 MW and 540 MW. The PHWR in Kakrapar, which is expected to go in for trial runs in June, will potentially be India’s first 700MW PHWR to be commissioned. PHWRs were initially developed in Canada with the experience it gained working with wartime allied countries in the 1940s and was known as CANDU. In 1956, it sup
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