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Why is Maharashtra govt in a hurry to set up nuke plant? [1]

On Monday, the French company AREVA and Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) signed a deal ensuring that the 9,900-MW Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project will proceed in New Delhi, which will have the evolutionary pressurised reactors designed by the said company.

The project will have six such reactors, each with a capacity of around 1,650 MW, for around Rs1 lakh crore.

After the

Publication Date: 
07/12/2010
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