NEW DELHI – The government has accorded administrative approval andfinancial sanction for construction of 12 nuclear power reactors in thecountry, Parliament was informed on Wednesday.

Out of these, 10 will be indigenous Pressurised Heavy Water Reactors(PHWRs) with a capacity of 700 MW each and the remaining two will be LightWater Reactors (LWRs).

The PHWRs will be set up in fleet mode and the LWRs will be established incooperation with the Russian Federation, minister of state in PrimeMinister’s Office Jitendra Singh said in a written reply in the Lok Sabha.

Two PHWRs each will be set up in Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka and Haryana,while four will be established in Rajasthan, he said, adding that the twoLWRs each having a capacity of 1,000 MW will come up at Kudankulam in TamilNadu.

The security aspects are being reviewed by the Atomic Energy RegulatoryBoard (AERB) before giving clearance for various stages of the projects,the minister said.

Currently seven nuclear power projects are being constructed in the countrywith a combined capacity of 5300 MW of capacity.

Besides work for the construction of two nuclear reactors with totalcapacity 1,400 MW at Gorakhpur in Haryana has commenced, he said.