Question : USE OF ATOMIC ENERGY

(a) the details of projects/fields in various States including Rajasthan wherein atomic energy is being used; and

(b) the cost of each of these projects?

THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR PERSONNEL, PUBLIC GRIEVANCES & PENSIONS AND PRIME MINISTER’S OFFICE (DR. JITENDRA SINGH):

(a) & (b) In India, atomic energy is used for large number of applications in the following fields:

i. Nuclear power;

ii. Nuclear fuel cycle, which includes all operations from mining to fuel manufacture, reprocessing and disposal of spent nuclear fuel after vitrification;

iii. Production of radio-isotopes in research reactors, followed by their applications in health care and industry;

iv. Development of indigenous technologies for purification of water by removal of salinity and hazardous chemicals and the transfer of such technologies to Indian industry;

v. Development of mutant breeder seeds and deliveries for meeting various objectives, including higher productivity, disease resistance, drought resistance etc.
vi. Development and application of advanced technologies in the field of electronics and instrumentation, computers, accelerators, lasers etc.;

vii. Research, education and health care in the field of cancer;

viii. Research and education covering basic sciences, higher mathematics;

ix. Research, development and deployment in areas pertaining to national security;

x. Delivery oriented applied research in scientific and technological domains relevant for the programmes of Department of Atomic Energy (DAE).

In order to support the above mentioned fields of activities, a large number of projects are being implemented throughout the country. Details of some of the major sanctioned projects in the country, costing more than ` 300 crore are provided below:

 
 Sl.	Name of the Project	Location	Cost No.	(`In crore) 
	Nuclear Power Projects 
 1	Kudankulam Nuclear	Tamil Nadu	17270	Power Project Units	1 & 2, Kudankulam 2	Kudankulam Nuclear	Tamil Nadu	39747	Power Project Units	3 & 4, Kudankulam 3	Prototype Fast	Tamil Nadu	5677	Breeder Reactor	at Kalpakkam 4	Rajasthan Atomic	Rajasthan	12320	Power Project Units	7 & 8, Rawatbhatta 5	Gorakhpur Haryana	Haryana	20594	Anu Vidyut	Pariyojana,	Gorakhpur 6	Kakrapar Atomic	Gujarat	11459	Power Project	Units 3 & 4,	Kakrapar 
	Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facilities 
 7	Fast Reactor Fuel	Tamil Nadu	9589	Cycle Facility	(FRFCF),	Kalpakkam 8	Integrated Nuclear	Maharashtra	6657.56	Reprocessing	Project (INRP),	Tarapur 9	Nuclear Fuel	Rajasthan	2011	Complex, Kota 10	Additional BARC	Andhra	1079	Complex,	Pradesh	Visakhapatnam 
	Health care 
 11	Homi Bhabha	Punjab	480	Cancer Hospital	and Research	Centre, Mohali 12	Homi Bhabha	Andhra	400.93	Cancer Hospital	Pradesh	and Research	Centre,	Visakhapatnam 13	National Hadron	Maharashtra	425	Beam Therapy	Facility, Mumbai