GORAKHPUR NUCLEAR PLANT

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• North India’s first nuclear power plant is coming up in Gorakhpur, Haryana, about 150 km north of the national capital.

First Nuclear Plant in Haryana’s Gorakhpur

• The Gorakhpur Nuclear Power Plantor the Gorakhpur Haryana Anu Vidyut Pariyojana (GHAVP) is a proposed nuclear power plant to be built on a 560 hectares area west of Gorakhpur village of Fatehabad district of Haryana.
• Gorakhpur Haryana Anu Vidyut Pariyojana (GHAVP), which will have two units of 700 MWe capacity each of pressurised heavy water reactor (PHWR) indigenous design.

READ ABOUT NUCLEAR PLANT: https://www.iasgyan.in/daily-current-affairs/nuclear-power-in-india

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