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Wed, 06/02/2010 - 08:10
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Four more nuclear power plants by next year: PM

New Delhi, Jun 1 (PTI) Prime Minister of India Manmohan
Singh Tuesday said his government plans to increase nuclear
power generation by setting up four more atomic power plants
by next year.

"Four more reactors are under advanced stages of
construction and on completion will take the installed
capacity to 7280 MWe by 2011," said a 'Report to People'
presented by Singh on the occasion on completion of one year
of his second stint in office.
Singh noted that with the commissioning of the Rajasthan
Atomic Power Station Units 5 and 6 during the year, the total
installed capacity of nuclear power has reached 4560 MWe.
Currently, India has 19 operational nuclear reactors. PTI
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