(a) the steps taken/proposed to be taken by the Government to meet its Uranium requirement for the Nuclear reactors in the country;
(b) the targets fixed for the nuclear power generation and targets achieved by the country during the last three years;
(c) the target fixed for the Ninth Five Year Plan particularly for the year 2000-2001 and 2001-2002 year-wise and project-wise; and
(d) the measures taken/propose to be taken by the Government to achieve these targets?
MINISTER OF STATE FOR PLANNING, STATISTICS & PROGRAMME
IMPLEMENTATION AND ADMINISTRATIVE REFORMS & PUBLIC
GRIEVANCES
(SHRI ARUN SHOURIE)
(a) Adequate resources of Uranium required for the nuclear
reactors of the country(present and envisaged) have been
established by Department of Atomic Energy.
(b) Targets and achievements for nuclear power generation in
respect of the Projects under Nuclear Power Corporation
of India Ltd., a Public Sector Undertaking under the
administrative control of the Department of Atomic Energy
for last three years i.e. 1997-98, 1998-99 and 1999-2000
(up to January 2000) are given below :
1997-98 1998-99 1999-2000(up to MUs MUs Jan.2000)(MWe)In addition, Government owned reactor RAPS-1 generated 480 MUs, 827 MUs and 795 MWe in the years 1997-98, 1998-99 1999-2000 respectively.
Target Achievement Target Achievement Target Achievement
8515 9618 9795 11174 8823 10147
Station/ TAPS RAPS-2 MAPS NAPS KAPS Kaiga-2 RAPP-3 TOTAL(d) Measures like improving outage management, intensive training for maintenance and operating staff, effective co-ordination with Regional Electricity Boards regarding grid related matters, etc., have been taken to achieve the targets.
Year (MUs) (MUs) (MUs) (MUs) (MUs) (MUs) (MUs) (MUs)
2000-01 1870 1208 1800 2665 2665 985 965 12158
Kaiga 1 & 2 RAPP 3 & 4 2001-02 1300 1150 750 2500 1000 1000 1700 11900