India aims to have an installed capacity of 100 GW of nuclear power by 2047, a massive increase from the current level of around 6.9 GW and on recent targets of 22.4 GW by 2032, Atomic Energy Commission chairman A. K. Mohanty said on 3 April.
Mohanty said fast breeder reactors would contribute 3 GW, while 17.6 GW would come from light-water reactors built with international cooperation and another 40-45 GW from India’s indigenous pressurised heavy water reactors.
In March, fuel loading began at the 470 MW prototype fast breeder reactor (PFBR) at Kalpakkam in Tamil Nadu, southern India.
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