India is planning to reduce the size of the “exclusion zones” around nuclear reactors to make more land available for expanding the facilities, reports revealed on Monday.
The changes are seen as necessary to reach India’s goal of increasing nuclear power generation from 8 gigawatts today to 100 gigawatts by 2047.
Reuters on Monday cited three anonymous Indian sources who said an “in-principle agreement” has been reached between the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board and Department of Atomic Energy to reduce the exclusion zones from their current size of about one kilometer around each reactor.
The sources did not say exactly how large the reduced…
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