Fast Breeder Reactor

A 500 Mwe prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) is an advanced technology reactor designed and built indigenously. The plant is expected to be commissioned in 2012. It is being built at Kalpakkam near Chennai in tamilnadu with a project cost of Rs. 3492 crore. A proposal for upward revision of cost is under consideration. Further Rs. 250 crore have been allocated for pre-project activities of two more units at the same site.

The project is delayed due to the initial setback in construction activities due to Tsunami and in later stages due to technological complexities in manufacturing several first of a kind equipment.

Shri V. Narayanasamy, Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions and in the Prime Minister’s Office gave this information in a written reply to a question by Shri Anand Prakash Paranjpe in Lok Sabha today.

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