Nuclear Power in India - Part II

Nuclear power plants in India:
Currently, twenty-one nuclear power reactors have a total install capacity of 5,780 MW (3.5% of total installed base)

Power Station	Operator	State	Type	Units	Total Capacity(MW)
Kaiga	NPCIL	Karnataka	PHWR	220 x 4	880 MW
Kakrapar	NPCIL	Gujarat	PHWR	220 x 2	880 MW
Klpakkam	NPCIL	Tamilnadu	PHWR	220 x 2	880 MW
Narora	NPCIL	Uttar Pradesh	PHWR	220 x 2	880 MW
Rawatbhata	NPCIL	Rajasthan	PHWR	100 x 1 200 x 2 220 x 2	1180 MW
Tarapur	NPCIL	Maharashtra	BWR	160 x 2 540 x 2	1400 MW
Kudankulam	NPCIL	Tamilnadu	VVER	1000 x 1	1000 MW
			Total	21	5780 MW

The projects under construction are:

Power Station	Operator	State	Type	Units	Total Capacity(MW)
Kalpakkam	Bhavini	Tamilnadu	PFBR	500 x 1	500 MW
Kakrapar Unit 3 and 4	NPCIL	Gujarat	PHWR	700 x 2	1400 MW
Rawatbhata Unit 7 and 8	NPCIL	Rajasthan	PHWR	700 x 2	1400 MW
Kudankulam Unit 2	NPCIL	Tamilnadu	VVER	1000 x 1	1000 MW
			Total	6 Units	4300 MW

The planned projects are:

Power Station	Operator	State	Type	Units	Total Capacity(MW)
Gorakhpur	NPCIL	Haryana	PHWR	700 x 4	2800 MW
Chutka	NPCIL	MadhyaPradesh	PHWR	700 x 2	1400 MW
Mahi Banswara	NPCIL	Rajasthan	PHWR	700 x 2	1400 MW
Kaiga	NPCIL	Karnataka	PHWR	700 x 2	1400 MW
Kalpakkam	NPCIL	Tamilnadu	FBR	500 x 2	1000 MW
Kudankulam	-----	Tamilnadu	VVER	1000 x 2	2000 MW
Jaitapur	-----	Maharashtra	EPR	1650 x 6	9900 MW
Kovvada	-----	Andhra Pradesh	ESBWR	1594 x 6	9564 MW
Mithi Virdi	-----	Gujarat	AP 1000	1100 x 6	6600 MW
			Total	43 Units	36364 MW

Anti-nuclear protests: Following the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, populations around proposed Indian NPP sites launched protests that had found resonance around the country. There have been mass protests against the French-backed 9900 MW Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project in Maharashtra and the 2000 MW Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant in Tamilnadu. The Goverment of Wst Bengal refused to a proposed 6000 MW facility near the town of Haripur that intended to host 6 Russian reactors.