According to the Planning Commission and the Prime Minister, the capacity of nuclear power would be 20,000 MWe in the year 2020. At present, India was producing 3,300 MWe.
In 2020, the production would be 7,000 MWe.
%u201CWhy should you buy second-hand reactors from the U.S. to produce 13,000 MWe of nuclear power. While the government is reluctant to reveal the costs of this energy, India will have to take loans and it will spend about Rs. 2 lakh crore for reactors and another Rs. 8 lakh crore to set them up with fuel facilities, etc. The Indian budget is only Rs. 6.5 lakh crore %u2014 we are spending two times more than the country%u2019s annual budget on setting up these reactors. The cost of power will jump to Rs. 7 a unit, which is double the present cost of nuclear power.%u201D
