{"id":478117,"date":"2022-03-24T10:45:25","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T05:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=478117"},"modified":"2022-03-24T10:45:25","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T05:15:25","slug":"govt-targets-to-raise-indias-n-power-capacity-to-22480mw-from-6780mw-by-2031","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-targets-to-raise-indias-n-power-capacity-to-22480mw-from-6780mw-by-2031\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt targets to raise India&#8217;s N-power capacity to 22,480MW from 6,780MW by 2031"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Union government has set the target of raising the country\u2019s nuclear power capacity to 22,480 MW by 2031 from the current 6,780 MW. However, the Centre has not yet set the target for nuclear power generation by the turn of the century (year 2100), Parliament has been informed.<br \/>\nIn addition to projects currently under construction (8,700 MW), the government has accorded administrative approval and financial sanction for setting up 10 indigenous Pressurised Heavy Water Reactors (PHWRs) of 700 MW capacity each in fleet mode, atomic energy minister Jitendra Singh informed the Lok Sabha on Wednesday.<br \/>\nOn the progressive completion of projects under construction and accorded sanction, the installed nuclear power capacity is expected to reach 22,480 MW by year 2031 that includes Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) of 500 MW being implemented by Bharatiya Nabhikiya Vidyut Nigam Limited (BHAVINI), a government of India enterprise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Union government has set the target of raising the country\u2019s nuclear power capacity to 22,480 MW by 2031 from the current 6,780 MW. However, the Centre has not yet set the target for nuclear power generation by the turn of the century (year 2100), Parliament has been informed. In addition to projects currently under construction (8,700 MW), the government has accorded administrative approval and financial sanction for setting up 10 indigenous Pressurised Heavy Water Reactors (PHWRs) of 700 MW capacity each in fleet mode, atomic energy minister Jitendra Singh informed the Lok Sabha on Wednesday. On the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-478117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478117","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}