{"id":542078,"date":"2022-12-09T11:52:45","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T06:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=542078"},"modified":"2022-12-09T13:00:21","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T07:30:21","slug":"ntpc-going-nuclear-as-focus-shifts-on-small-reactors-in-climate-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ntpc-going-nuclear-as-focus-shifts-on-small-reactors-in-climate-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"NTPC going nuclear as focus shifts on small reactors in climate fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: State-run NTPC, the country\u2019s largest coal-fired power producer, is going nuclear as the government shifts focus on the nascent SMR (smaller modular reactor) technology in search of clean energy for achieving net zero by 2070.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the new thing that you would probably be hearing that we are bringing and are seriously thinking on this,\u201d company CMD Gurdeep Singh had told the 18th analysts and investors meet in August.<\/p>\n<p>Sources said the company is looking at adding 20-30 gigawatts (GW) nuclear capacity by 2040, an ambitious target that may be hard to achieve, in addition to its solar capacity addition. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: State-run NTPC, the country\u2019s largest coal-fired power producer, is going nuclear as the government shifts focus on the nascent SMR (smaller modular reactor) technology in search of clean energy for achieving net zero by 2070. \u201cThis is the new thing that you would probably be hearing that we are bringing and are seriously thinking on this,\u201d company CMD Gurdeep Singh had told the 18th analysts and investors meet in August. Sources said the company is looking at adding 20-30 gigawatts (GW) nuclear capacity by 2040, an ambitious target that may be hard to achieve, in addition to its [&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-542078","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\/542078","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=542078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}