India's Nuclear Power Corporation Moves on Four of 19 New Projects

India

JOHANNESBURG--September 28, 2012--Written by Richard Finlayson, Senior International Editor for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--In August 2012, a member of the Indian prime minister's office told parliament that there were plans to build 19 nuclear power plants that would have a total generating capacity of 17,400 megawatts (MW). State-owned Bharatiya Nabhikiya Vidyut Nigam Limited (Chennai, Tamil Nadu) and Bhabha Atomic Research Center (Mumbai) each will build 1,300-MW projects and the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) (Mumbai) will build 17 plants in the program, which will cover five years through March 2017.

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