India debuts largest domestic reactor

Bloomberg

India’s success
in connecting its largest domestically-built nuclear reactor to the grid is a boost for plans to deploy the technology to help the world’s third-biggest polluter limit emissions, according to the
official overseeing the plans.
The 700-megawatt pressurised heavy water reactor of the Kakrapar Atomic Power Station, located in the western state of Gujarat, is the first of
16 planned units
that will help balance the grid against
growing intermittent renewable generation, according to KN Vyas, India’s atomic energy secretary.
“Renewables are less capital intensive and can be implemented much more quickly.”