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India is acceptable to instrumentality a large measurement successful expanding its atomic vigor programme, with plans to invitation bids for the constitution of a 220 MWe Bharat Small Modular Reactor (BSMR-200), wrong the adjacent 3 to six months.
The task is considered arsenic a large portion of the country’s cleanable vigor transition, officials told ET.Foreign companies volition beryllium allowed to enactment successful the bidding process, but lone done tie-ups with section partners, an authoritative said. The reactor plan volition beryllium standardised, and the archetypal portion is expected to service arsenic a exemplary for aboriginal installations.“A outgo of astir Rs 30 crore per megawatt (MW) has been approved for BSMR-200 arsenic a aviator project,” different authoritative told the fiscal daily.The BSMR-200 is being jointly developed by the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) and the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL). The full outgo of improvement and operation is estimated astatine astir Rs 5,960 crore, to beryllium funded done the Nuclear Energy Mission. After approvals, the operation is expected to instrumentality anyplace betwixt 60 and 72 months.Officials said that inter-ministerial consultations are presently underway to finalise the bidding details.
The determination follows the opening up of the atomic assemblage to backstage concern aft the enactment of the Sustainable Harnessing and Advancement of Nuclear Energy for Transforming India (SHANTI) Act successful December 2025.“A last telephone connected the connection volition beryllium taken by the Cabinet Committee connected Economic Affairs,” the authoritative said, adding that home firms susceptible of executing the task connected an engineering, procurement and operation (EPC) ground person already been identified.The Union Budget had already alloted Rs 20,000 crore to make astatine slightest 5 indigenously designed and operational tiny modular reactors by 2033 nether the Nuclear Energy Mission.India has besides acceptable an ambitious extremity of reaching 100 GW of atomic powerfulness capableness by 2047, alongside efforts to fortify section manufacturing and exertion improvement successful the sector.In a caller milestone for the atomic programme, India’s prototype accelerated breeder reactor reached criticality this month.
