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24/02/23 10:43 AM IST

Haryana To Host Northern India’s First Nuclear Power Plant

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  • Haryana may soon become home to Northern India's first nuclear plant as a 1,400 MW nuclear power plant is under construction near Gorakhpur village, which is located about 150 km north-west of New Delhi.
About the plant
  • Haryana’s Gorakhpur In the Fatehabad area of Haryana, the Anu Vidyut Pariyojana’s (GHAVP) Pressurized Heavy Water Reactor (PHWR) with two units, each with a capacity of 700 MWe, is currently being built.
  • Ground improvement in turbine building - 1 and 2, 220 kV Switchyard and IDCT - 1A is completed. A 400kV switchyard, emergency makeup water pond and station roads are in progress.
  • Till date, Rs 4,906 crore has been spent out of the total allocated funds of Rs 20,594 crore.
  • The Haryana Irrigation and Water Resources Department (HI&WRD) has commenced the construction of a water duct from Tohana to GHAVP to meet operational cooling water requirements, and the project is going well.
  • Other main plant structures, such as the fire water pump house, safety-related pump house, fuel oil storage area, ventilation stack, overhead tank, switchyard control building, safety-related and non-safety-related tunnel and trenches, retaining walls, and garland drain, are being built in a good manner.
Nuclear plants in India
  • Nuclear energy is an important component of the country’s energy mix and is being pursued along with other sources of energy in an optimal manner.
  • It is a clean, environment friendly base load source of power available 24X7.
  • It also has huge potential which can ensure long term energy security of the country in a sustainable manner.
  • There are presently 22 reactors with a total capacity of 6780 MW in operation and one reactor, KAPP-3 (700 MW) was connected to the grid in January 2021.
  • The nuclear facilities are kept under IAEA)safeguards if the source of Uranium, which is the fissile material for a nuclear reactor, is from outside the territory of India or if the new reactor plants are established with foreign collaboration.
Source- The Print

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