JNPP site would be India’s largest generating 9,900 MW of electricity and among the biggest in the world
Bharat Heavy Electrical Ltd (BHEL) on Tuesday said that it has signed an MoU with France’s state-owned company Electricite de France, S.A., for collaboration on the proposed Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project (JNPP) in Ratnagiri.
Once completed, the JNPP site would be India’s largest generating 9,900 MW electricity and among the biggest in the world.
The JNPP would comprise six European Pressurised Reactions (EPRs) of 1,650 MWe each, slated to come up in the coastal village of Jaitapur and others in Maharashtra.
The BHEL and EDF would also examine “larger collaboration for the European Pressurised Reactors (EPRs) and for the NUWARD SMR (Smaller Modular Reactor)”.
In regulatory filings with the NSE and the BSE, the BHEL said that it will “explore the opportunity to maximize the local content of the JNPP”, being set up by the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd. (NPCIL).
Envisaged in 2005, the JNPP has encountered huge protests and opposition from the locals, particularly the fisherfolk, who feel threatened that their livelihood would be hit badly.
One of the prominent activists, Forum Against Disastrous Projects in Konkan Convenor Vaishali Patil said that “even today, the locals are 100 percent strongly opposed to the project” and would not allow it to come up at any cost.
“If, after 19 years, the project is still at the agreement signing stage, then is there any seriousness even on the part of the government that they will construct it even in the next 50 years,” Patil countered.
The Konkan Bachao Samiti (Save Konkan Committee) Co-Convenor Adwait Pednekar pointed out that though “there are no ground-level protests currently”, the people of the Konkan region are still vehemently against the JNPP for the larger and long-term consequences.
[With Inputs from IANS]
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All protestors in Bharat are all foreign NGO funded & interesting no one protests against lack of sanitation or drinking water supply or poor quality of city roads or poor quality / NON existent pavements for walkers….etc..
Any Indian is ready to get sold for Rs. 100 or put a bomb or kill for laws do not work in India. Forget any punishment