US to build 12 N-plants in AP, Gujarat
New Delhi, Dec. 8: Operationalisation of the Indo-US nuclear deal has cleared the way for the setting up of a minimum of 12 new nuclear plants in Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat, which would generate between 10,000MW and 15,200MW, members of a visiting US commercial nuclear mission told reporters here Monday.
India’s Nuclear Power Corporation has already zeroed in on coastal Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat to set up these plants.
GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy’s Daniel Roderick said MOUs are expected to be signed by 2010.
He added: “With these behind us, we will start licensing companies to do site engineering and other work on site preparation by 2011.”
GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy and Westinghouse Electric are in negotiations with Indian companies, including Bhel and Larsen and Toubro, to provide 50-70 per cent of the nuclear equipment to be made in India.
The first unit will get operational by 2018 and an additional one every two years after that, US team members said.
The Americans see the Indian nuclear pie as a $150 billion business.
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The timeframe does not make any sense to me. Why wait so long to sign an MoU, and then a further one year to start giving out requests for tenders, and so on? Why so much hesitation? The delay in implementation arising from technical problems could be bad enough without building time delays in the plan itself.
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