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New 700MW nuclear plant in Gujarat, India, begins running at full capacity (www.power-technology.com)

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NPCI is building two 700MW pressurised heavy water reactors (PHWR), including Units 3 and 4 at Kakrapar, where there are two 220MW power plants. Officials say that in July, the fourth unit recorded 97.56% progress.

Wonder why they're building these instead of thermal coal plants

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

India likes CANDU based reactors like this because they don't want to enrich uranium. They focus on plutonium production for their bombs and want to eventually create plutonium breeder reactors for a thorium fuel cycle.

Edit: the fact that they natively breed tritium without a dedicated lithium channel is good for fusion or variable yield bomb initiators too.