India will set up five energy parks by 2032 to raise the generation of nuclear energy. The selected sites for the energy parks are Haripur in West Bengal, Mithi Virdi in Gujarat, Jaitapur in Maharashtra, Kovvada in Andhra Pradesh and Kudamkulam in Tamil Nadu, chairman of Atomic Energy Commission and secretary, Department of Atomic Energy, Srikumar Banerjee has indicated.
The country plans to have 35,000 MW of installed capacity by 2020 and 60,000 MW by 2032, Banerjee said. Out of this, 40,000 MW to 45,000 MW would come from energy parks and the balance from the other installations. The current generation level was around 4500 MW.
He said going by the present economics, nuclear power was more competitive than other sources of energy like thermal. But is price alone to be the deciding factor, as we have been asking? What about the waste? What about the long gestation time? How can the generation be raised over eight times in a decade? What about security concerns in transporting the fuel across the country? And the fuel imports required? According to Banerjee, India can generate at most 10,000 MW of nuclear energy from its assured uranium reserves.
Are the people willing to have nuclear plants dotting the countryside?
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Meeting the commitments for Nuclear energy will be a challenge for India:-
1) Firstly, the population density. Nuclear reactors need some isolated landscape to ensure safety and security.... So rising population pose a serious threat to nuclear establishments
2) What happened at Kaiga nuclear plant might happen again ... any worker might cause serious leakages which affects the populace
3) Raw materials transportation will also pose a challenge considering the infrastructure and yes how can we forget the pilferage and corruption surrounding the raw materials of power generation
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