The government has begun construction of two nuclear power reactors of 700 MW capacity each at Haryana, nearly four years after the foundation stone of the project was laid.

The Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited started excavation work for the first two units of Gorakhpur Haryana Anu Vidyut Pariyojana (Gorakhpur Haryana nuclear power project) at Gorakhpur village in Fatehabad district on Saturday in the presence of Atomic Energy Commission chairman Sekhar Basu.

To be constructed at a sanctioned cost of Rs 20,594 crore, the two units would add 1400 MW base load capacity to the northern grid.

On completion, it will generate 980 crore units of electricity every year.

Subsequently, two more units (GHAVP-3&4) would be set up at the same site.

These are the first two nuclear power units to be constructed after India operationalised a new nuclear liability regime.

The scheduled commissioning dates of the two units were 2020-21, but experts are skeptical on timely completion of the project.

Four other 700 MW indigenous pressurised heavy water nuclear reactors are being built at Kakrapar in Gujarat and Rawatbhatta in Rajasthan.

All of them are have been delayed by three to four years.

In May 2017, the Union Cabinet approved establishing another 10 700 MW nuclear power reactors in a fleet-mode. This includes the two units at Gorakhpur.

Other units would be located at Mahi Banswara in Rajasthan (four units of 700 MW capacity each); Kaiga in Karnataka (2 units) and Chutka in Madhya Pradesh (2 units).

The approval of 10 reactors on a fleet-mode is likely to accelerate the project work and generate manufacturing orders of close to Rs 70,000 crores to the domestic nuclear industry.

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