{"id":301374,"date":"2019-11-18T11:59:37","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T06:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=301374"},"modified":"2019-11-18T12:14:05","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T06:44:05","slug":"energy-starved-africa-looks-to-india-for-nuclear-reactors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/energy-starved-africa-looks-to-india-for-nuclear-reactors\/","title":{"rendered":"Energy-starved Africa looks to India for nuclear reactors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : As part of India\u2019s strategy to expand its footprint in Africa, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government is exploring supply of small nuclear power reactors to the electricity-starved countries.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, India\u2019s civilian nuclear power programme has caught the fancy of African countries because climate change has impacted their conventional hydropower generation capacity, which was primarily dependent on the Nile, the Niger, the Congo and the Zambezi river systems.<\/p>\n<p>While hydropower generation has witnessed a decline leading to lower supply of electricity in African nations, India\u2019s pressurized heavy water reactor\u2019s (PHWR\u2019s) unit size are well-suited to meet their small demand load.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : As part of India\u2019s strategy to expand its footprint in Africa, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government is exploring supply of small nuclear power reactors to the electricity-starved countries. Interestingly, India\u2019s civilian nuclear power programme has caught the fancy of African countries because climate change has impacted their conventional hydropower generation capacity, which was primarily dependent on the Nile, the Niger, the Congo and the Zambezi river systems. While hydropower generation has witnessed a decline leading to lower supply of electricity in African nations, India\u2019s pressurized heavy water reactor\u2019s (PHWR\u2019s) unit size are well-suited to meet their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-power-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}