Reliance Industries Ltd, India’s largest private sector corporation, Tata Power and Adani Power are among six private entities that are learnt to have formally expressed interest to set up small modular nuclear reactor-based projects.

In response to requests for proposals floated by the state-owned Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd to set up its proposed ‘Bharat Small Modular Reactors’ or BSMRs, Hindalco Industries, JSW Energy and Jindal Steel & Power too have evinced interest.

Some 16 sites have been tentatively marked across six states — Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh. The BSMRs are proposed to be constructed and operated under NPCIL’s supervision and the state-run company will retain operational control and asset ownership, while the s

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