Stage 2 nuclear technology can meet energy needs

Our Regional Bureau / Hyderabad March 15, 2005

Kakodkar said that India is moving from the stage-1 technology which uses Uranium and Heavy water to Fast Breeding Technology in atomic power to cater to the country’s energy needs.
According to Baldevraj, director of the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR), the Fast Breeding Technology is capable of creating the electricity generation potential of up to 5 lakh mw.

“As we build more and more Fast Breeding reactors, the cost of energy too will come down to Rs 2.50 per unit and subsequently to just to around Rs 2,” he said. Over 50 academic institutions and about 75 industrial units are involved in developing the Fast Breeding reactor technology in the country, he said.

S K Jain, chairman and managing director of the Nuclear Power Corporation said that about eight nuclear reactors of stage-1 technology with a total cost of Rs 22,000 crore are under construction, which are being added to the existing atomic power stations in the country.

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