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India
Under Construction
7
Operating
23
Long-Term Outage
1
Closed
1
Number of Reactors
(as of August 2026)
25.4
Mean Age of Reactor Fleet
(as of August 2026)
2.8%
Stable
Nuclear Share in Electricity Production
(2025)
WNISR
in the Media –
1 February 2025
Frontline/The Hindu (India)
Nuclear energy, no magic bullet for climate change
Advocates of nuclear power argue that it is a “clean”, quick, and cost-efficient energy.
M.V.
Ramana’s latest book disagrees. Urvashi Sarkar • 31 January 2025 Thirteen years after his path-breaking book The Power of Promise: Examining Nuclear Energy in India comes Professor
M.V.
Ramana’s most recent offering, candidly titled Nuclear is Not the Solution: The Folly of Atomic Power in the Age of Climate Change. While the earlier book explored the ambitious claims of India’s energy (…)
WNISR
Essential News –
15 February 2022
WNISR
– Nuclear Power 2021
Highest Number of Reactor Closures in a Decade
2021 in nuclear numbers—Six reactor startups, ten less than planned at the beginning of the year. Eight closures plus two closure announcements. Ten construction starts. Three reactors in Long-Term Outage (
LTO
) restarted, two closed. As of 1 January 2022, 412 reactors in operation, 25 in
LTO
, and 55 under construction. The Year 2021 saw the largest number of nuclear reactor closures in a decade, since 2011, when the Fukushima disaster began. Three of the six remaining units were closed (…)
WNISR
Essential News –
1 January 2022
WNISR
Construction Start at Kudankulam-6 in India
There are now 21 operating nuclear reactors in India and eight under construction. Only three new units were connected to the grid over the past decade, and with an average of 11.5 years, construction times were excessively long. Contributing 40 TWh (billion kWh) in 2020 or 3.3 percent of the national electricity generation, nuclear power’s role remains modest in India, and solar and wind individually produced about 50 percent more electricity than the nuclear plants.
WNISR
, 31 December (…)
WNISR
in the Media –
2 May 2021 [fr]
Le Figaro (France)
EDF
franchit une étape pour ses six réacteurs nucléaires
EPR
en Inde
Le projet avait été mis à l’arrêt après l’accident de la centrale de Fukushima. Il pourrait obtenir l’aval des autorités indiennes d’ici quelques mois. Par Armelle Bohineust Publié le 23 Avril 2021 Le projet avait été mis à l’arrêt après l’accident de la centrale de Fukushima. Il pourrait obtenir l’aval des autorités indiennes d’ici quelques mois. Une étape déterminante est franchie.
EDF
a présenté jeudi à New Delhi son offre finalisée pour six
EPR
, des réacteurs nucléaires de (…)
WNISR
in the Media –
2 May 2021 [fr]
Les Echos (France)
Nucléaire :
EDF
fait un grand pas dans son gigantesque projet d’
EPR
en Inde
A la veille d’une visite officielle du premier ministre indien Narendra Modi en France,
EDF
a remis une offre «
technico-commerciale engageante
» pour la conception de six réacteurs
EPR
sur le site de Jaitapur, dans l’ouest de l’Inde. Initié par Areva il y a plus de dix ans, ce projet à l’avenir encore incertain vise à construire la centrale nucléaire «
la plus puissante du monde
». Par Sharon Wajsbrot Publié le 23 Avril 2021 A la veille d’une visite officielle du premier ministre (…)
WNISR
Essential News –
15 January 2021
WNISR
Grid Connection for India’s Largest Reactor at Kakrapar
WNISR
, 15 January 2021 Kakrapar units 3 and 4 under construction — Photo
DAE
The 700-
MW
Kakrapar Pressurized Heavy Water Reactor (
PHWR
) Unit 3 in the Indian state of Gujarat was connected to the grid on 10 January 2021, according to the Indian Department of Atomic Energy (
DAE
). State owned Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (
NPICL
) began construction of India’s largest capacity reactor on 22 November 2010 with operation originally planned for 2015. Construction of unit 4 at (…)
The Annual Reports –
4 September 2018
Nuclear Power: Strategic Asset, Liability or Increasingly Irrelevant?
The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2018 Released
Paris, London, 4 September 2018. Nuclear power plants added a total of 7-gigawatt (
GW
) capacity to the world’s electricity grids in 2017 and the first half of 2018, a tiny fraction of the total from all sources, which is estimated at some 257
GW
(net) in 2017, including 157
GW
of renewable capacity (the largest increase ever). Over that 18-month period, six reactors started up in China, two in Russia and one in Pakistan. For the third year in a row, excluding China, global nuclear power generation has declined, finds the World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2018 (
WNISR2018
).
WNISR
in the Media –
2 October 2017
The Hindu (India)
India third in nuclear power installations: study
But share of nuclear energy generation stagnates globally, and several countries shut down nuclear reactors in 2017 The Hindu
CHENNAI
,
SEPTEMBER
23, 2017 22:19
IST
UPDATED
:
SEPTEMBER
23, 2017 23:44
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Vidya Venkat India is third in the world in the number of nuclear reactors being installed, at six, while China is leading at 20, the World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2017, released this month, shows. The number of nuclear reactor units under construction is, however, declining (…)
WNISR
Essential News –
30 June 2017
First Construction Start in the World in 2017: Kudankulam-3 in India
First Construction Start Worldwide in 2017: Kudankulam-3 in India World Nuclear Industry Status Report (
WNISR
), 30 June 2017 On 29 June 2017, the Russian consortium Rosatom announced the official construction start with the concreting of the base slab for the Kudankulam-3 reactor building in India. The construction of the
VVER1000
is scheduled to be completed in just over six years (73 months), according to media reports. An agreement on the extension of a Russian state loan for the (…)