India begins construction of 25th nuclear power plant
18 Jul 2011
Rawatbhata, Rajasthan: India will commence construction of its twenty-fifth nuclear power plant on Monday with the first pour of concrete for the 700 MW indigenous Pressurised Heavy Water Reactor (PHWR) at Rawatbhata, Rajasthan.
This will be the seventh unit at the Rajasthan Atomic Power Station (RAPS) complex, which already has an installed capacity of 1,180 MW from six units - the largest from a single site.
The Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) currently operates 20 nuclear power plants across six sites and has an installed capacity of 4,780 MW.
The excavation work for the Unit 7 at RAPS started on 19 August last year.
NPCIL hopes to start commercial operations by June 2016.
The first pour of concrete for Unit 8 at the station will start later this year.
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