Go-Ahead Given to 9,900-Megawatt Jaitapur Nuclear Plant, but Opposition Continues
Posted on December 10, 2012 at 02:07 AM EST
JOHANNESBURG--December 10, 2012--Written by Richard Finlayson, Senior International Editor for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--The Indian government approved setting up a six-unit nuclear power complex in Jaitapur, Maharashtra. Planning is taking place for the first two of 9,900-megawatt (MW) reactor units to be supplied by Areva S.A. (EPA:CEI) (Paris, France). Upon completion, the complex will be the largest single nuclear power site in the world. But opposition to the project has stiffened after Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster.