New Delhi:
In a much-awaited announcement, India on Tuesday announced the two sites where American companies will be setting up their nuclear parks.
As per the announcement, America will set up plants in Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh.
At the conference on peaceful uses of atomic energy, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced that India will be increasing its nuclear capacity by 100 times. He further announced that India was reserving the Mithi Virdi site in Gujarat and the Kovada site in Andhra Pradesh for the Americans to set up nuclear parks.
Haripur in West Bengal has been kept aside for Russians to set up a second nuclear park after Kundankulam.
Two other sites have also been set aside for new indigenous power plants. And with this development, India has entered the nuclear age in a big way.