{"id":200,"date":"2007-07-11T04:59:55","date_gmt":"2007-07-11T08:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orissawatch.org\/Infra\/?p=200"},"modified":"2007-07-11T05:03:42","modified_gmt":"2007-07-11T09:03:42","slug":"orissa-may-get-largest-nuclear-power-plant-in-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/archives\/200","title":{"rendered":"Orissa may get largest nuclear power plant in the country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/StoryPage\/StoryPage.aspx?id=b3dcae1e-2215-4228-bd98-e333e3d0fad5&amp;MatchID1=4488&amp;TeamID1=8&amp;TeamID2=10&amp;MatchType1=1&amp;SeriesID1=1120&amp;PrimaryID=4488&amp;Headline=Nuclear+Power+scouts+for+plant+site+in+Orissa\">Hindustan Times<\/a> reported that,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>the Orissa government is examining a proposal from the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) to set up a 4,000 to 6,000-megawatt capacity nuclear power plant, which could be the largest in the country, which today has a total nuclear power generation capacity of only 4,120 MW.<\/p>\n<p>The project is being proposed in the wake of the US government&#8217;s offer of technology under the bilateral nuclear cooperation agreement with India.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe NPCIL made their initial selection of the site based on satellite images,\u201d Orissa Energy Minister Suryanarayan Patro told Hindustan Times on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>A nine-member committee of NPCIL had visited Bhadrak and Ganjam districts for site selection and had finally selected Pati Sonapur in Chikiti Block of Ganjam,he said &#8220;They have asked the Orissa Hydro Power Corporation to drill six deep borewells as part of their investigations,&#8221; he said.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hindustan Times reported that, the Orissa government is examining a proposal from the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) to set up a 4,000 to 6,000-megawatt capacity nuclear power plant, which could be the largest in the country, which today has a total nuclear power generation capacity of only 4,120 MW. The project is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,215,235,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-all","category-nuclear-power","category-power-generation-and-energy-management","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}