International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) Council which met on July 2010 has approved the baseline cost and overall schedule of the project. The nuclear fusion project is jointly set up by Europe, China, Japan, South Korea, Russia and the US to generate power using nuclear fusion (as it happens in sun). Such an attempt if ends in success will result in generation of inexhaustible source of power and the project cost has gone up from Euro 5.9 billion in 2006 to Euro 15 billion . India on its part will be involved which has a share of 9% in costs. The project is likely to be built with contributions from countries in form of components and services.
Project Location : Haripur, Midnapore district, West Bengal
Atomic Energy Commission has selected Haripur in Midnapore district in West Bengal as one of the 5 coastal location to set up
a nuclear power plant. To meet the objective of nuclear energy programme and vision 2020, it plans to add 40000 MGWT of
nuclear energy by using indigenous and imported nuclear fuel. It may be noted, National Fishworkers Forum in Haripur and a
section of Trinamul Congress are against the project.
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The project have been scrapped by the Trinamool Congress government which has come to
power in 2011.
