With the two reactors of 1650 MW capacity each (total 3300 MW) ordered at 9.3 Billion US$, the capital cost comes to Rs 13 crore/MW. ASdd to this, the costs for land, building and other facilities, the total cost would come to aroound Rs 14 crore/MW. Comapred to this, the Hydel power requires investement of around Rs 7 crore/MW and no cost of fuel. Hydel is totally safe and causes no damage to environment. While nuclear fuel cost quite a bit and there are anxieties of its availability. Further there is problem of storage of fission products. Thus Nuclear power is costliest, most dangerous and risky and most difficult to maintain. We would be incurring Rs 7 crore/MW more to create the capacity. Thus on 10000 MW planned for Jaitapur, damage to India is Rs 70000 crore, with added risk of radio-active leakage, and risk of storage of fission products and giving terrorists soft target to create huge loss of life. Why we should do it?
Re: Jaitapur Nuclear power project
by Badari Narayanan on Feb 15, 2011 01:48 PM
Hydel projects cause submersion of huge areas and small tremors often accompany submersion (eg. Koyna earthquake). Any human activity takes its toll, not necessarily only fossil / nuclear plants. Even coal contains some minute amount of radioactive substances. Possibly nuclear reactors pollute less than coal plants where radioactive substances get released into the atmosphere.
Re: Jaitapur Nuclear power project
by sudhinder thakur on Feb 15, 2011 05:44 PM
we do not need MW but MWh.talk in terms of cost of producing electricity and not capital expenditure. hydro is season and location specific. hydro give a plant load factor of maximum 30% as compared to 90% for nuclear. Get the facts right first. we are talking of assured base load generation and not intermittent generation. Hydro has a significant role in the electricity mix. at 14 cr/ mw, nuclear will any day produce electricity much cheaper than hydro even if we can built it 7 cr/ mW. Do u know at tarapur, nuclear electricity is sold at less than a rupee/ kwh.
