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Cabinet approves Atomic Energy Bill, paving way for private participation in nuclear power sector

The SHANTI Bill opens the nuclear sector to private players across generation, mining, exploration, and even foreign direct investment for the first time.

India's nuclear ambitions set to bring a jobs boom, courses and training programmes planned after PMO intervention

The PMO has taken stock of the talent shortage for India to realise its nuclear ambitions of 100 GW by 2047 and the government is likely to introduce new undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in nuclear technology and engineering at central and state universities, IITs, and NITs.

L&T shares higher by a percent on 'significant' order of up to Rs 2,500 crore from NPCIL for Kudankulam nuclear plant

The HCI business is an EPC division for core civil infrastructure projects crucial to sectors such as Metros and High-Speed Rail (HSR), tunnels, nuclear power, ports as well as defence infrastructure.

Large reactors likely to drive India’s nuclear power plan despite buzz around SMRs

About 80 GW of the 100 GW target will be executed by NPCIL and NTPC through larger projects. The remaining 20 GW will be open to the private sector and mostly be executed through small module reactors, government officials have told Moneycontrol

Nuclear Power Corp taps Engineers India help develop Bharat Small Modular Reactor

The partnership will support Centre's vision to accelerate the share of nuclear power and strengthen India’s energy security, and will be targetting a nuclear power capacity of 100 GW by 2047.

RIL, Adani, Tata, others look to partner NPCIL in nuclear energy push to lower emissions

The government has called bids for setting up Bharat Small Reactors to decarbonise high-emission industries such as steel and aluminium. It expects at least Rs 35,000 crore in investments from the private sector

Amendments to nuclear laws still in the works, unlikely this monsoon session

The overhaul of India's nuclear laws to bring in private participation also raises questions over accountability for the imported reactors that would be supplied by a foreign technology or design partner.

India to quadruple uranium imports for nuclear energy mission

The imports will be of natural uranium (uranium ore concentrate) and not enriched uranium as India's indigenous Pressurized Heavy Water Reactors can operate with even about 0.7 percent U-235, government officials told Moneycontrol.

Centre looking to cut turnaround time to set up nuclear power plants by five years

The government is also planning to set up one nuclear power plant in every state that does not fall under the Seismic Zone 5 and may consider the 'fleet mode' in order to ramp up capacity addition.

NPCIL, sole operator of India's nuclear plants, says 'renaissance' underway in journey to 50 GW capacity

Trump's presidency will be a boost to India's nuclear ambitions, NPCIL's chairman Bhuwan Chandra Pathak said, adding that the PSU plans to invest at least Rs 6.6 lakh crore to build 50 gigawatts (GW) nuclear power capacity.

India's third home-built 700 MW nuclear reactor starts operations

With this commissioning of RAPP-7 at Rawatbhata in Rajasthan, NPCIL now operates 25 reactors. RAPP-7 is the third reactor of the 700 MW series of 16 India-made pressurised heavy water reactor being set up in the country

NPCIL to add 1,400 MW nuclear power capacity this year, says CMD Bhuwan Chandra Pathak

On March 17, NPCIL commissioned a 700 MW indigenous pressurised heavy water reactor, RAPP-7, at the Rajasthan Atomic Power Project (RAPP), taking India’s nuclear capacity to 8,880 MW. It expects to get RAPP-8 operational by year-end

Nuclear Power: How NTPC may steal a march over its competitors

NTPC is currently in talks with six-seven states for land to build nuclear power plants. The PSU will build both small and conventional reactors.

In a historic first, India invites private participation in nuclear power

The Union government's move is a step toward India’s plan of increasing its nuclear power capacity from the current 8,180 MW to 22,480 MW by 2031-32 and eventually 100 GW by 2047.

Tata Power to foray into nuclear energy when govt opens up the sector, says CEO Praveer Sinha

Tata Power has set an ambitious target of achieving revenue of at least Rs 1 lakh crore and a profit after tax of Rs 10,000 crore by 2030

India's third home-built 700 MWe nuclear reactor achieves criticality

The RAPP 7&8 project is being set up in Rawatbhata, where six units with a total capacity of 1,180 MWe are already in operation

Increasing nuclear power capacity key to meet 2070 net zero target: Govt report

The study also found that despite India's net zero ambitions and initiatives toward achieving the goal, coal will continue to be the backbone of Indian energy system for the next two decades.

NTPC and NPCIL sign agreement for joint development of nuclear power plants

Moneycontrol was the first to report about NTPC's plan to expand India's nuclear power projects. NTPC, India's largest power producer, aims to start generating 2,000 MW of nuclear energy by 2032, 4,200 MW by 2035 and eventually scale up to 20,000 MW by 2050.

India to get 7,000 MW from nuclear power by 2031 as govt grants bulk approval to reactors

As per the Central Electricity Authority data, till March 2022, India had an installed nuclear power capacity of 6,780 MW, which is just 2 percent of the total energy (thermal, hydro, renewables) mix in the country.

NPCIL's Rajasthan plant to procure 60% of goods via GeM in FY23

Narendra Kumar Pushpakar, director of NPCIL's Rawatbhata plant in Chittorgarh district said that power generation by uranium fuel is increasing constantly and there are several projects on the chart to further increase power generation by uranium fuel.